We like to cut wood in fall and winter months. Haul it out of the woods and sort of stack it. Spring then get the splitter out and do all the splitting at once rather than getting splitter out over and over. After the wood is split, then it gets stacked, right there and this normally happens in March/April. The past couple of years we've been bothered with a few problems so our schedule has been a bit different but still the basics. We had a GTG last April and will have another this April so we are hauling some logs out with dray and stacking them then getting them bucked at the GTG. Some will get split then and following that comes the stacking. In October I move some wood into the barn for use in winter but otherwise it stays outdoors top covered. Hauling wood out. First picture was dead elm. Second was dead ash. In the second picture you can see we've stacked rounds during winter then in April we split. First picture below just finished one year's splitting; stacking to be done. This picture was 9 cord all split in early April and stacked right after. It was left like this until after Thanksgiving then top covered. That was in 2009 and it is all been burned now.
Well, I got some of it stacked. The main stack is 16' long by about 6.5 - 7' tall. I'm guessing by the time it dries, it'll be about a cord. Have room for one more like it in front. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk
OK I am not trying to be nit picky.. just a helpful hint.. IME... single row stacks over 4 feet high always fall over as they dry! if you notice Backwoods Savage stacks they are lower and willing to say towards top half of outside rows tilt towards inside row.. meaning they lean onto the middle row... more over in all my covering experience I have 10 x harder time keeping single row stack top covered vs a cube style... I live in a wind tunnel
i always love to make a day out of it....ill have all my rounds organized and ready to go in a pile...Split split split and then once its all done bring em to my stacking site and stack away so they can dry and season faster rather then sitting in a huge pile of split rounds
to the OP, it's a good thing you started stacking......I couldn't even see you in the original picture you posted
Draft inducer and 3 foot long rounds. Done lol. I will probably split and stack this summer as I can now finally afford to get a head on my hoarding. Got over 130k (and still counting) into custody lawyers so that's where any extra wood fund has gone. So I get 10 cord of oak and ash delivered in logs and just cut them to 3 foot lengths and chuck them into the fire. 30 Clip Magazine On My Ghost Gun
You ain't lying about getting to high with single rows! This was a few years ago I've since gone to tin tops and wider bases on my racks. Funny looks well stacked horizontally lol.
I only stack to 5' high nowadays, and the longer the row, the more likely it is to lean. Tried 6' for a minute, and although they didn't fall over (I dropped 'em to 5'), they had a mighty cool temporary gangsta lean goin' on. If I'm stacking away from the splitting area, I'll split right into a trailer, as it makes no sense to throw it on the ground, only to pick it back up again. However, if doing the SS in the same place, they get tossed on the ground close to the stack. For over a year now, I've been getting my firewood cs, so it gets dumped on the ground, then I stack it, but I have my guy back up right in front of the stacks. Blazing , I've never seen such a neatly fallen batch of firewood. You deserve some kinda reward or something. I wanna' see ya' do it again.
It did, broke my heat to see it lol. Unfortunately my better half suffered a life changing injury and can no longer enjoy things like stacking wood. You can bet if she was still able I'd have twice the wood I do now though .
And I thought we were friends lol. It was one of those stand there scratching your head moments.. thinking how in the.
I have done it several ways. If its been a cold winter, i will skid out logs to the wood pile. After that i cut, split and stack right next to the pile. Years like this, where the ground stays soft, i will cut and split right next to where the tree falls to keep from tearing up the trails. When it dries up some, i will head back into the woods and get the splits out and stack them on the pile. I have also taken rounds out before and split them next to the pile, but i hate moving big rounds. I would rather handle splits a extra time.
I split my wood right into my trailer and and take it to where I stack my wood. If I get tired splitting and stacking, I am not left with much to stack before calling it a day.
Hand splitting here. Used to be a silly doofus as I would split and then stack in a preliminary pile before moving it to the main pile. Realized that was silly. Then, just threw all splits in a disorganized heap before stacking just to get them out of the way of the splitting stump. Recently, I've gone to stacking as I go since my most recent stacks are only about 10 steps away from the splitting stump.
I'm thinking the worst thing about the whole process of CSS is the repetitive bending over. The lower back is not what it is supposed to be any longer and its an ordeal to reach down by bending.....
I want to badly build a processor on the back of an old f350 or similar and load poles with a skiddy. Cut, splitconveyor to a pile. I go through too much wood to stack it. I live right off the interstate as well so you can bet a sign is going up for "you haul split wood." Be some nice side cash and with the volume I go through would pay itself back quickly. 30 Clip Magazine On My Ghost Gun
I usually gas up my 357xp cut till it runs out of gas load up the bucket with rounds bring to splitter split and place on the stack. I get about 4 buckets done a day.
I have a rack right by my splitting area that holds 1.5-2 cords. If I'm filling that rack, then the splits go straight from the chopping block to the stack. The majority of my wood goes out back, so it goes from the chopping block to the wheelbarrow. When the wheelbarrow is full it goes out back and is stacked.
