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Help me stop my stacks from falling over

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  1. HDRock

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    That too :yes: or just T posts alone
     
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    I don't crib the ends, and my stacks don't fall over. I stack about 5 feet high. My ends are "sloped" back (sorry I can't post a photo right now). It works for me.
     
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    Some pretty good advise given on cribbing so far. Keep everything plumb and level on the way up, and also sturdy as EricVW mentioned. But sometimes, no matter which way you position a split, it's just tipsy. Here's my trick for that: grab some shards from the splitting area and shim it up. I've never had a stack fall over, or even move very much at all; and I doubt you could even push them over easily.

    But there is another method, which does not involve cribs or t-posts. :D

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    Do you think we could get a pic of the deer blind? I have been thinking of doing the same. Thanks
     
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    Practice practice practice.

    Lots of alternative good ideas too.
     
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  6. Eric VW

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    Or as Yoda said, "No, there is another...."
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    Well... it's like this see... I um, er... gave up. Yup - just plum gave up. Cement them suckers into the ground, brace, shore-up, you name it... did not work. That stiff western New York wind toppled them all over - much to my consternation! I wasted so much time restacking. Did I mention that I hate restacking? I do!

    How did I solve it? Went about it from a different angle. Sold my wood stove, bought a oil burner and put in a oil tank. Buried that tank in the ground; that sucker can't go nowheres! HA!

    Ok, just fibbin a bit. I still got the wood stove (it's burning as I type this). What I did was build two wood sheds - I stack my wood in them. It stays put, dries nice, and stays dryer vs stacking in the open.

    Gpsfool
     
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  8. Eric VW

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    That works!:thumbs:
     
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    I agree, some nice looking stacks folks. If I stack on a single pallet, I criss-cross the entire stack. However, it takes longer and I probably get less wood on a pallet since you can't stack as close.
     
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  10. Kimberly

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    I would like to see that.
     
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    Okay. I'll try to get back there to take some pictures.
     
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    Went in back to snap a couple of pictures. The blinds have to be repaired just a little bit this summer because of that time we got the high winds but not a lot of fixing to do.

    I'll probably put a door on the blinds this summer too but last fall I just put up a piece of osb to block the door. It worked.
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    A couple of views of the interior. I was sitting on a chair when taking the pictures.
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    Same blind; this is the front. You can see one piece of roofing laying on the ground but that is from the wood stack (just to the left of the blind) rather than from the blind.
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    Mother deer to her children...

    "Don't worry little ones...this human burns wood to keep warm. His wood stacks are nothing to be afraid of." ;)


    Go get 'em Savage!!
     
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    Well, that is.......awesome!!! Cheers!
     
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    That is really neat. I see, crib at the four corners, stack in between, presto walls.
     
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    Speaking of deer blinds reminds me, I need to go spray the deer repellant; I saw deer tracks down in the little valley.
     
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    Lead is gooder deer repellent.... accurately placed lead is permanent repellent.
    :yes:
     
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    And....lest we forget....try mega doses of....wait for it...












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    Dang! Blast from the not too distant past.:rofl: :lol:
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    Amen!
    My property slopes away and the time and effort to choose the next right piece for the corners outweighed the spectacle of a nice stack, for me anyway.
    I schemed to build this guy and it took a few years to get it closed in after I got the frame stood. But it gave me a level platform and a place bare the ends on. I take some effort to make the face square with the frame, but after that it's chucking and stacking until I've got it topped off.
    Holds about 6.25 cord and I'm not looking back.
     
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