Ive had a few that have been ecstatic by the volume. One woman kept saying "that other guy was ripping me off" Another customer ordered three cords and when stacked it was only half that amount. To add insult to injury the wood was BAD...looked like three year old stuff that had a lot of punk. Campfire wood at best IMO. I have one customer who buys my "past its expiration date" wood. Some fungi and mushroom, some punk. She was thrilled the first time as it actually burned in her firepit. I hear you on the stacking. Im not religious about getting it all stacked up. With some sales already i have empty racks opening up. WOOHOO! PITA keeping whats to be bundle wood separated out and stacked on its own. I make smaller splits for such and faster drying wood.
Just before that whole closure of the world in 2019, I had bought a bunch of oak for nearly a song. Then I had time to split it all, got it stacked and I find I was really proud of it because it was cut to lengths already that I could deal with. Two truck and trailer loads worth too. Came out to a good stack that I believe was at least a cord but I stayed more on the safe side and added more. The stacks weren't exact so I made it much higher than 4 feet as it was stacked on some dunnage beams. The tricky part is it came out to about 3.5 feet deep. The last 6 inches was bunch of the chunks and I stacked about a half stack. In the end I had my truck, my trailer and a little bit left over we put in my dad's truck for hauling to a guy who used it in his bbq. I kind of wish I had kept it but I was already sitting on a mountain of several piles. Yes I was over-stacking as the shrinking was apparent during the summer. Then I moved splits to the rack a bit as things gave way to room. It's almost as if you lose wood but no it's a palpable change especially when it had been cut a year ago and nobody picked it up. My splitting just supercharged the drying out and I've had different wood that was cut in a downpour and watched that shrink too. Especially when you get it tight when it's green only to come back to it in the summer and go..."huh? Someone steeling my stacks?" nope. Just a different kinda Jerky in a way. I can understand why some DON'T stack in this sense. They may wait for it to dry out for a majority of a summer and then stack it. Less likelihood of things falling over and having to do it all over again.
