So I bought a t-post pounder or driver. It was more pricier than the 4 t-posts I purchased. But if this goes well, I'll buy more t-posts down the road and remove a bunch of crap from my yard.
Maybe tonight. Certainly this weekend as I have a lot of wood I need to get up off the ground. I need to see if I have some treated lumber left over from another project. Was thinking about putting the lumber on cinder blocks and bookending with t-posts.
dotman17 I'm sorry to take so long to reply to this but here goes! I stack much differently than most others. First is that I can't see spending dollars for something to stack wood on when it is outdoors so that rules out t-posts and landscape timbers along with a few other things. I also have let it be known many times that I do not like pallets (mostly because they look crappy but a few other reasons) and I do not like stacking between trees. I also do not like stacking up against a building or fence. You will find many of our ideas here: Live from the May 2019 Michigan GTG at Backwood Savage’s Our normal scheme of things finds us cutting wood in late fall and winter. We do not split then but sort of stack it up then in late March or early April move the splitter to the stacks and go to splitting. We also like to put the wood where it will be stacked in order to save some moving and handling of the wood. The wood, once it is stacked, stays that way until fall or early winter when we then top cover the wood. btw, for stacking the wood onto something, it is a simple thing to cut some saplings or limbs or whatever works to stack the wood on to keep it off the ground. We also tend to stack 3 rows together and sometimes more. We like to stack so that the prevailing wind will give us good air circulation and have never had a problem drying wood. Here are a few pictures to show what some of our stacks look like: As you can see, the galvanized roofing we use works very well in the winter months.
Here is a typical stack that we make in late fall and winter. Then when the snow and ice melts in the spring we just run the splitter up beside the stack and go to work, throwing the splits right where we want the wood stacked. The second picture in this row is another idea, compliments of leoht. This picture is from a few years back and I think that year I split maybe 10 cord. Yes, it took a while to get it stacked.
That's a small factory outfit you're running there! Very impressive. I'm just lowly suburbanite trying to find his way.
Not rocket science information BUT this is an extremely valuable piece of advice and one I learned the hard way. When I was first starting out I'd score a load of rounds and just lug them to the back yard and dump them in a spot. Later when I got to splitting I found myself dragging the rounds or splits all over the back yard depending on where my racks where. Fast forward, having a little more experience and thinking things through more I dump the load where they will be racked and split in same area.
You "Never" cease to amaze me my Friend!!! Those are some awesome stacks!!! Maybe I can do that when I have more land, I can't do much living in an ant farm...
Having refined that thinking even further, once the rounds are in my truck the wood never touches the ground again. I roll the rounds onto my splitter, which sits on a stand at truck bed (standing) height. The splits go into the wheelbarrow and thence to the stack. No bending = no back pain. There is more than enough work in wood processing without making more.
Couldn't agree more and I am always trying to fine tune my wood processing. Problem is my particular home setup just doesn't allow for easier processing. Ideally I'd like to drive right up to the stacks with my truck and trailer but there is no room between the houses to do that so I am forced to pull up out front and lug each round into my dump cart and drive it around back with the LT. Depending on the load size I can sometimes hook the trailer right up to the LT and get err done in one shot but most often times not.
Perhaps you are not the typical homeowner? But then, I don't know of many that take up to an acre of ground to stack wood on either. Besides, the typical homeowner does not even heat with wood.
Nope! and it truly shows you who's either the "real smart ones" or the real Dumb ones... I frankly like having an Electric bill at $200.00 vs. $800.00 in the winter. And those who heat with propane... well.... We "Are" a unique group of folks, and lets not forget our pellet friends on the other side.
I've lived in a similar situation, 1/4ac urban lot. But, I've always had access to a larger woodlot somewhere. Now it's not much different. A couple acres, but there still are no saplings to cut, or really firewood for that matter. Still have access though to the woodlot nearby. If I didn't - hmm. To the north of here, there are electric company pulpwood forests with free access to maple or cedar that grow tall and straight. Would be nothing to go fishing for a weekend, cutup some poles, and cart them home. Your in Massachusetts - the forests of Maine are not far away?
