One of my stacks fell over, Mainly Ash and Beech. The stack is on a concrete pad. At this time it is low on my many to do priority list. Probably late Sept. to restack when I get into wood processing. Does on the dirt or on concrete matter? May have to move it up on the list if it matters. My thought is that the wood is spread out and will get more sun for drying. I am talking about probably a face cord of wood.
How wet does your concrete get once it rains? Depending on what is going on (priorities) I would let it wait a bit too.
Concrete will wick moisture but it will probably not move enough moisture to prevent the wood losing moisture while it sits.
With all the discussion on ground wood, I didn't know about wood on concrete. Between have to get done and need to get done projects, not counting want to get done, I figure it will be late Sept. before I am back to wood making. Besides, with my system I am not sure what to do with this wood as far as restacking. I would like to move the beech to the barn for 2018 season, but haven't decided where to stack yet. Have this years wood done plus if needed more in the barn and a cord of oak and locus as part of my 3 year plan that I started. I may have to dedicate another area for 2 year wood.
It use to be a dog kennels. When I poured the concrete, I made it so it had a slope and it drains well.
If you can prevent the rain and nightly dew from hitting the wood, you should be okay. If sitting outside exposed to the elements, I would move it. You could lose the drying time it already has been through. In my opinion it absorbs water much faster thsn it dries.
Two schools of thought here, if its more exposed to sun in an even plane surface, its likely to be ok. But with wood that is told to punk easily with rain, you could just spread your stack out of the spill so its not as high but wider. Another row perhaps if you got the room but a picture would be nice to comment on here too.
Well, if you weren't running all over the continent fishing all the time you'd have plenty of time left for work. If it were me I'd get it restacked ASAP. You are not talking about a lot of wood there so you are not talking much time at all. Then you won't have to wonder and if we happen to go into another wet period, which often happens in September, you will be all set.
I think you would be fine either way. It won't take that long to restack and it would bug me seeing it lay but on the other side of the stick wood is not a sponge and laying on concrete I don't think I would worry about it deteriorating any way shape or form.
I'd restack. Now? No. But I'd get it done before the next time it rains. Once the rains stop and dries off, it'll still be wet under each split for a period of time. That's my 2 coppers. Sent from my SM-T280 using Tapatalk
If it were me, I'd re-stack immediately so the wife doesn't get pizzed about the mess. She loves the free heat, and before tweaking her back something nasty on a scrounge even helped out a lot, but the bigger the hoard gets, the more picky she tends to be on neatness. Can't blame her really, we have a lot of road frontage and everything is pretty visible.
