What type of wood pile do you have?

To me that sounds about perfect, and would even want a bit more.

When younger with full time work, lots other active hobbies, and three young children, 2 years worth was as much as I would usually muster. Now I am at three years worth, but since being a member of FWC it seems like very little.

The fact is, having at least 4-5 years laid aside is more than just money in the bank, it is an insurance policy and hedge against things that might come up that would limit a person's access or ability to get a lot of wood in.

Now with may wife and I entering our next stage in life, which is middle age with adult children, I can more easily envision working up to 5+ years ahead. Plus they all like to help.

Another benefit of learning from all the folks here is an even deeper appreciation of specific tools, techniques, and especially having access to our own acreage of forest with a mix of hard and soft woods. These are blessings which are not to be taken lightly.

 

I think of you as resourceful.

 

Why, thank you!

 

I have a high solid pile in the woodshed. Than a Two level high blocky one and then two more that are kind of lower and to different heights. All mixed up. I'm a mess! They are all neat however!

 

I'm somewhere in the unique, solid, ambitious, practical camp. Pallet racks firmly screwed together, set on old bricks, cinder blocks and tire treads, covered with various types of steel, wood, and plastic roofing.

 

You’re a latent hoarder.

Best time to plant a tree? 30 years ago.
Second best time? Today!

That’ll be $20. See the nurse on the way out.

 

20’x4’x4’ so I guess long, wide and straight.

Started a new one this weekend.

 

...you just rock, Dennis. Great job.

 

Just one pile? Is this a trick question?

 

Cribbed ends. Efficient.

 

I’m on my second holzhaufen...

...and decorated for xmas too!

 

Patients.

 

Some impressive vstacke of wood you have there sir

 

Don't ever move to the USA; because your analness could become mandated if found out by certain political types.

 

I’m with you.

 

I like that analogy.

 

I’ve got some stacks on 2” pipes set on cinder blocks, single row, fence posts driven into the ground on each end. I’ve got some in triple rows on old gates set on cinder blocks. And I’ve got a couple
Of bins made out of old goat panels that are filled with bits and chunks. All of them are in a pole barn so they stay dry and will last until I need them. All the stacks are neat, robust, labeled with the species and the month and year they were stacked. The substance of my piles is pragmatic, rock solid, and set up for the long term.

The area around my piles is messy or at least messier than I’d like. But Making it perfectly neat so it looks good never makes it to the top of my to-do list. Once it looks half way decent, I lose interest and move on to other projects.

I’ve got a mix of woods including species a lot of people wouldn’t bother with. I care about how the wood actually works for me and do not care whatsoever about what tradition tells me.

I’d say my wood piles are an accurate reflection of who I am.

 

That’s some pretty colored red wood, sorry if I repeat the question but what’s that wood you have?

 

Just a stack.

 

What kind am I?