It seems many of you have nice flat spots in the open to stack your wood. How do those that don't have nice flat areas stack their wood outside?
Carefully..........................I've got some of that type landscape, so end up with 4' high rows undulating like a snake...........
I use old rail road ties.. I got Paid to take away.. 2 on 1 side 1 on other and land scape spike them together makes it flat enough and off ground!
I deal with some uneven ground..and it is difficult. I also have to block up one side of the stack to level off, although I use cinder blocks. Sucks to come home and find the whole stack laying on the ground..I will NEVER again buy land on a hill!
The pic doesn't do it justice but my stacks are on a pretty good slope. I used the landscape rocks that we were removing to help but I also used pieces of 2x4 to shim the pallets. So far so good.. On the far left of the pic it's easily 8" lower than the right side of the bigger stack..
I can stack on flat ground, against the garage and my stacks still fall over. http://firewoodhoardersclub.com/forums/threads/why-why-why.11724/
When I build my woodshed I pored concrete posts and built a level deck. I used to shim pallets for my other stacks to level them but now I just grab the tractor and level the ground first.
About half of my property is on a slant back to front. The way I am going to handle it this summer when I create the area to stack my wood is to did down 1 foot. Then fill with a gravel/stone dust mix to form a level area to place all my pallets for stacking my wood. This will not be an easy task for me, but it will be worth it in the long run.
It's a challenge for sure. I used sasafrass saplings of different diameters to try to build a base that's level. The key is getting a level solid base that won't settle. Reality is that between settling, rain, splits shrinking and frost heave it's a challenge. I think my saplings have sunk pretty deep in the ground now so it's helping to create a more stable base. My slope is going both down the trail as well as going steeply back behind the stacks.
I'm on the side of a hill. I use 10' 2x4 PT to make frames that are about 18" wide. Then use bricks or concrete blocks to level them out before I stack. In the picture below, at the end of the burning season, the frames are on top of next years wood waiting to be re-stacked. I find the single stack width easier to level and a little more stable. They are 10' long and I stack about 7' high in the center, 6' at the ends. This gives a slope for water and snow to slide off when they are top covered. KaptJaq
We recently sold a rare home (in the mountains, 10 minutes to town), large driveway was pretty flat, but the rest of it was too steep to raise a child. Our current home is on flat land....
Thanks for all of the pics. Glad to know I am not the only one who has to deal with living in the hills. Erik B.
