What strikes me is that almost every picture from Europe shows wood piles with the wood split really small.
Its not mine. I m in Austria in a holiday with the family. Beeing a hoarder i have to take pictures of good looking staks
In Holland the winter is wet, it is hard to get wood as dry as you want iT to be. So we split iT small to let iT dry easy
We can certainly agree with this. However, if you get on the 3 year plan, it will dry before you are ready to burn it! btw, I have relatives not too far from there; in Belgium.
They don't always necessarily start off with very big trees. I know in Norway on my cousin's farm the trees are mostly birch, some kind of spruce, tall, straight around 12 inches in diameter. Straight-grained and easy to split in 1 meter long billets, often in Fall after harvest which gets the wood drying fast. Then the next year cut those one meter billets into whatever length splits they need, usually in the barn out of the weather, even at night. The sawdust they make in the barn often gets used in the barn, or the greenhouse. They have a Morso and 1 other stoves that take 12 inch long splits. And a kitchen cook stove that I didn't ask but looked like 12 inch too.
Looks like a nice, relaxing place to be. I love the long splits, too. They'd be perfect for my owb at that length. I wish my splitter would take a forty inch log!
Still don't understand the reasoning behind cutting it longer this year and then cutting it shorter next year..... I know it'll stack better, but why the two step process? Of course, if it were to be cut to it's 12" length the first time, it would be more of a bear to stack....but is that the only reason?
So my experience with friends who live in Germany is that they sell their firewood by the cubic meter and that typically whomever buys it will cut it shorter to fit their needs. The picture below was taken from my buddy's house in Stetten Germany. These guys hand moved this trailer across the street where they had an electric cut-off saw that they cut the lengths down to what their heater took for size.
No. Just been a few times and my best friend is dutch. Een bier alsteblieft. And that's all the dutch i know.
Thats a real nice picture. At first glance it looks like it could be here! I hear you on the space issue. If I stored 3 years worth of firewood (15 cords) I think my wife would leave me and there would be no room for the dog to do her business! I like the three year plan in theory though for the one reason that if I get sick or injured I wouldnt have to worry about putting up firewood while I was recovering.
