I am not that good of stacker and have had to re-stack several times the past years. Two of my grandsons came over today and moved at least 3 truck loads up closer to the house, but the stacks wouldn't last. I can't complain since my back feels fine and they got a good bit of the wood up here. This year I am trying something different. Probably a good thing if it works. I use to raise cattle so I had many gates and potable panels laying around. I drove T-Posts into the ground and tied the panels to the post. Stacked the wood between them. If the stack falls the panels should catch them. We will see how it works. The only thing I should of done different was to make the stacks 2 wide instead of 3. Well maybe next year or if I make more stacks this year.
For long term storage I've gone to the inward lean method to avoid double handling. It's takes just a little more time but not near as much as the hassle of a redo. Still no fall down after 5 years.
I shoot for the lean to the inside as well, although sometimes you get a weird situation where the middle/center of the stack wants to blow out. Imagine my surprise the first time I came across this in the wood shed.
I use both the lean method and have used the long piece weave for a few years. I do not go 2x on the length, maybe an extra 6 to 10 inches. I can still get that piece into the stove, albeit an an angle. I hate stacking, so I do my best to avoid having them fall over.
Moved about 1/2 cord into my shed and re-stacked a bunch including a row that went down . My stuff's always falling over since very little of what I get is straight.
I don't know where a post is. Example : You are stacking two rows of 16 inch splits, 12ft long rows, one row in front, one in back , with a 10 inch space between the two rows , stack will be 4ft high , once the stacks are about 2 feet high you get yourself some boards 2x4s . Or whatever, approximately 42" long , when your stack is about 2 feet tall you lay the boards across both Stacks front to back and start stacking on top of them this ties both Stacks together and stabilizes them. For a 12-foot stack I put about 4 in. You can do that even if you are stacking the rows tight together 3 or 4 rows deep it will tie everything together. Does that make sense?
Did it recently on several cords some buds/brothers helped me get ahead on..... Except, 20 foot long x 4-5' tall, (x6), 8-10"s apart, used some old fence pickets as the stretchers. Worked great.
I am a lousy wood stacker but campinspecter makes it easy for me. He cuts our wood 22"-24" When I stack wood for Mom, it is never over four feet tall and really dry so it doesn't fall over on her.
Wow you must have really angered the baby for the baby to knock over your stacks. Next time you need to be faster with that bottle. I'd hate to see all of your stacks knocked over.
