When the heating season comes to a close ...........

I keep 6 milk crates of firewood by the stove.
I keep 3 wheel barrow fulls in a repurposed animal house on the patio.
It gets refilled every 6 or 7 days when it is cold.
Later Spring the empty animal house comes off the patio with the empty milk crates in it and goes up on blocks in the woods.


If it snows in July I can grab a few milk crates of wood for a fire or two from the stacks.

 

And here is the set of racks on the porch. Pardon my mess as I am in the process of remodeling. This was taken at the beginning of the heating season.

 

When I am done burning, the wood goes back in the wood shed along with the wood boxes I keep in the garage during the winter months. I have 2 boxes like this, one for splits and the other for kindling. Wheels are on only for transport to the wood shed.

 

I bring in wood for the week each weekend. Starting today actually I'm going to bring in less and less but I usually check the forecast first. I will leave some wood in the woodbox inside until late May early June then I'll move it all out when I clean everything at the end of the season. I see a lot more bugs around the wood as the weather warms so I try to get it out of the house in the summer months.

 

All of your methods make sense, so I'll have to rethink how much wood I actually keep in the house. Even if I stop bringing in wood now, I'm afraid I'll still have better than a 6th of a cord in my living room. The temperatures this coming week is supposed to get up to 70 degrees. I'm also seeing the birds are starting to look for nesting sites. So where I'm at, the heating season may be coming to an end shortly.

To move my firewood around, I use one of those two wheeled dolly things with a 600# capacity and strap a 30 gallon rubber maid trash can to it. Just stand the splits and make it look like a round inside the trash can. Two layers and a pile on top to bring the wood into the house.

 

Absolutely.
But the problem I had was, when the spiders warm up they crawl off the wood into the house.

 

I understand completely. Those that end up escaping their demise by fire won't survive the spring cleaning. I bug bomb the heck out of the house as a just in case before commencing spring cleaning.

I am still mildly entertained when I see bugs of any kind in the stove still on the wood trying to escape the fire, but it's usually over in a few seconds with their little bodies bursting into flames. The same for the ones I catch in tissue paper. Even if they escape that, the fire consumes them shortly.

 

Anything in the basement stays there all summer. After busting my azz in the Fall bringing it all in I'm not about to take any leftovers back out.
Bugs aren't a problem here and that area of the basement is just used for storing firewood, nothing else.
Some years if it's just about all gone I'll throw it out the wood door and then remove the wood rack it sits on and clean up the floor real good. Then the rack goes back down and the wood comes back in. I painted the floor a few years ago with concrete paint and it cleans up nicely.

 

Don't be so sure - I'm seeing the same thing here in Virginia, birds singing woke me up this morning (and no they weren't vultures!) but later March and April can still get cool or cold around here - just depends on the year. I built a few fires in May and even one in early June last year. Still tough to tell at this point when we'll be done.

 

Never know around here, it usually snows on Memorial day.

 

Usually only 2 days worth in the great room so it gets burned up or removed . The wood/furnace room gets refilled as soon as I have time in spring or summer and holds about 6 weeks worth under normal winter heat load.
Bugs or whatever be dammed .