Bogydave! Great idea on the stack stability. I am going to try that, my girlfriend will appreciate it because I want her to stack instead of me. Her stacks are more stable than mine. That sounds wrong, doesn't it?
That fallen stack reminds me of one of my favorite passive-vulgar slang terms: sack of balls! As an ex baseball coach, it just makes sense.
That's usually what made mine top so I started just putting the uglies on the tops of all the stacks rather than mixing them in. It works much better.
I drive some in with a hammer as the row gets the right height so I don't have them sticking out in the way while stacking.
That always sucks. The bad part, is it was the stack? I have had some of my racks lean quite a bit, but never fallen? For that entire rack to still stand and the stack fall? They had to have some serious uglies. Those racks seem indestructible. I like my racks, but it LOVE yours!
I use the rope method, except its 1" nylon web from my rock climbing days that I drive a nail thru and into the wood. It holds adjacent stacks together real tight. I have no concerns about metal in the wood anymore. The stick method should work fine, just do it separate for each pair of rows. Pete would do it with salvaged pallet slats.
Dex, these racks are inspired by yours, pretty much the same thing except they are built in groups of 3 with a common stringer along the bottom ends and a 2x4 rail on the top of each end tying the 3 units together. If a middle leans, not really a big deal, and if an outside row leans outward, there are two other rows to hold the entire rack in place. Now I just gotta figure out how I want to top cover them. I have 5 of them and that gives me roughly 10 cords worth of storage and single-row drying capability. I could get even more wood in the same area if I move them closer together or go back to stacking on pallets and not leaving an air gap, but it becomes even more difficult to top cover and access the stacks in the snow.
That will give you a good core workout MM. Always look at the positive side. And that wood will have warmed you "several" times by the time it is gone!
a guy could screw a 2x4 across the ends of his rows, 'bout half way down, that usually keeps 'em from becoming that fallzendownzenhauzen.
MM, just look at this on the positive side. Those crazy guys who never have to re-stack the wood only get one shot at it. You get more practice and may end up better at it in the end.
Me too, which is why I would never stack that high....Even stacked correctly, stacking that high is bound to fall over at some time or other...
I built the same size racks 4 years ago... One time I had one fall over... Now I make sure that if anything, the angle of the wood stack is leaning back if not level,,,, if it does fall it's just against the rack behind it... then it will get fixed when I burn it..
