Holzhausen, start to finish, My third attempt at it

Thank you,

 

Yes, getting the wood off of the ground is probably the most important, thing.

 

Yep, covered would be better, but the Holzhausen's are kind of hard to cover, so I am not going to mess with it. I get a lot of wind and it will blow a tarp to pieces, that and the sun deteriorates them pretty bad, also. They make special tarp covers for Holzhausens but they are very expensive and that cost adds up, plus it would be very important to make the stack just the right diameter for them to work. But I doubt those special covers would last over a couple of years so, not practical.

I don't even try sheet iron on the regular stacks, because even with extra weight on them, the wind storms will take the sheets right off if it can get under it at all.

We currently have a wind advisory here today, with 20 to 30 mph winds, and gust to 45 mph. I guess the wind helps dry out the wood, though.

 

We got the same winds here maybe enough a bit stronger. All day yesterday and so far today, supposed to start letting up this evening I think

 

I totally understand where your coming from with the wind. Luckily I'm tucked back in the woods and dont have that problem too much. Personally I like roofing rubber to cover my stacks. Uv resistant and heavy duty. Once you use it you'll never go back to tarps.

 

Nice work! I too am interested to see how this fares when the splits begin to dry.

 

Yep, I am curious how it will do. Personally, I think it will do fine, as I am not that finicky about what I burn, anyway, as long as it's reasonably seasoned. Currently, I am burning wood cut and split this last August and even later in the fall, but it was mostly already dead standing or laying, but some was out of trees that I would call, mostly alive, but in trouble, and I am getting by just fine, but I keep my fires hot, pretty much and split small. But it's had probably 3 to 4 months to season under roof on my porch.

I figure any of the Holzhausen wood will be better seasoned then that by a lot, by the time I use it. I will keep updating on here, in the future on it. I am curious as to how the wood in the middle of the Holzhausen will do, compared to the outside walls, or the top for that matter. And I will move it to the porch a few months before I actually burn it, and it will get a lot of air, there, but will still get wet from blowing rains at times.

 

I cut the same circle for the top, as the bottom....except the top one was 10' across, not 8. We used 3 or 4 foot poles to hold it all down. Just a single 3mil layer of plastic. If I took more time to arrange it on top, they woukd have lasted longer.

if I had a way to make a canvass top that was waterproof, and could be outfitted with weights or the like...id do that.

Sca

 

So far, pulling 2 HH apart, and stacking up by the house, we havent noticed any pieces not burning well.
But I stacked the HH kinda loosely...or at least didnt jam the crevices all full.

Oh yeah...havent figured.out the quote function here just yet!

Sca

 

If I do anything wrong it is that I do tend to stack wood fairly tight, cause I guess my dad taught me to do that to give a customer a true full rick of wood. We sold a little wood when I was a kid. I tend to stack it tight, so it won't fall over as easy, but I do understand the error of my ways. At least wood thrown in the middle, should be loose enough. I think the wind will still go through alright. I have build log sheds out of landscape timbers and tried very hard to keep it tight and the wind would still fly through.

 

Lastmohecken i don’t think I ever complimented your finished HH. Looks pretty good. If I ever get around to making one I would like it to be about the same size as yours. Mostly just to give the local lookie Lou’s something to talk about

 

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