I'm new to this whole thing but according to http://firewoodresource.com/firewood-btu-ratings It's around 21.7 million BTUs per cord. I have seen numbers out there as low at 14.7... But sometimes beggars can't be choosers (especially in this area where everything is pine or fir)
A good place keep the kid away from or playing on. Put a stick every 3 - 4 ' , 3/4 the way up thru both rows, to tie both rows together. Helps with stability. Maybe nail a small board across too, on the end verticals to tie them together, up at the top It's BTUs & you burn what you got. You have some darn good looking wood stacked up , keep it coming (& pictures ) The way you have it stacked, it should season fast & burn great this coming winter BTU Carts are just for a close reference, moisture & actual wood in a stacked cord are big variables. Use the chart to learn the highest BTU of wood in your area, Target it when you can. Getting it CSS'd & seasoned is much more important , Dry wood is the biggest key to good , efficient, clean, successful wood burning
^^^^^ What he said. ^^^^^ I burn the same stuff as you, and find that the pines around here (Ponderosa and Lodgepole) burn fine when they are dry. Scrounge a little Tamarack or Douglas Fir to add to it for long night burns in the deep of winter, if you can. But if not, you will do fine on what you got. Frankly, I would rather have only dry pine rather than only Tamarack. You are doing the right things on the front end. The payback will be felt next winter, when you are toasty warm, and the utility bills go way down. (See, I just said the same thing bogydave did ...) Greg
Good thoughts... I've tried to trach the kiddos to keep their distance from the stacks, and they know to never go between , but, one can never be too safe. Sometimes they just make bad choices! I'll have to try binding the stacks together somehow.
Well you take what you can get, it it really doesn't hold up to the 21.7 mbtus/cord you'll just have to be gathering more, but nothing wrong with that.
More progress. I added a little support between the rows... I used some of the pruning scraps from the apple trees... It made it a lot more stable. Now I just need to add the boards nailed to the tops of the end verticals to keep everything nice and tight! But, now I have to find the next place to stack...
Nice! Any spots where there's grass ,that gets covered by a stack of wood, is less that needs mowed .
As you know, I live in the same climate and burn the same wood. I double stack, and it does fine. If you double stacked, you maybe could get 50-100% more in that space. Greg
Polvalt, I lived in Spokane for a couple of years, many years ago. A wonderful area of the country. I plan on vacationing out your way in a few years and stay in Couer de lane. I am going to combine it with a "Chief Architect" seminar at Advanced Relational Technologies.I am a 15+ year user and I think it is time to attend one of their seminars. on another note: When they say you have it all figures out, you fall behind. I love your concrete block 4"x4" post wood crib. Portable as it gets. I know your probably not the inventor but you at least deserve credit for posting it for the rest of us. Well done man.
I originally got the idea here: http://m.instructables.com/id/No-tools-firewood-rack/ But I have seen a bunch of variations since then. It seems really stable.
