Hello from Eastern Canada, my 3 year old is taking an afternoon nap so I have a couple of minutes to say hello. First of all I absolutely love this community! Everyone is offering advice, tips and stories to help with the woodhoarding. The pic below is why I searched you out a few years ago to improve my wood storage options. It gets to cold here, -20C too cold be messing around outside longer than you need too. So after some trials, trying to wrap my wood and create a greenhouse effect. Not wrapping my piles but aiding airflow, I have come up with the best plan for my situation I think.Just simple lean to's with lots of airflow and top cover. Because I am such a cheapskate I am currently using leftoverconstruction vapor barrier as the roofing material, it will degrade eventually due to UV but its fine for now. note: 6" gaps between individual rows. I simply don't get enough sunshine in this location so airflow is the answer for me. This picture taken today -15C Also buy a Fiskars X27 Splitting Axe. Its the greatest.
Howdy there, you just cured me of ever wanting to see Canada in the winter lol. I see you keep your splitting area neat and tidy! I personally try and do the same just for tripping hazards and rolled ankles. Great looking stacks from another long time lurker .
Welcome Fulltang .. yup my in laws live in trois-rivieres quebec... 2 summers ago they still had snow piles size of 6 story building loading tri axles dump trucks with full size excavators in June...
Welcome. I have found members here to go out of their way to help.Love pictures of wood sheds ideas. Looking to make life easier. I noticed your chopping block. I built one about 8 years ago and it worked great. To old now to swing the maul and got a splitter.
Excellent use of nap time too. My youngest are in eighth grade and remember the days of having to make hay when the sons napped. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Fulltang, welcome to the greatest forum there is!!! Where in Canada are you? I have had many trips to Ottawa, Montreal, and Toronto! Great countryside and cities!!!!
Welcome to the forum. I grew up in a suburb of Montreal so I do understand cold and snow. Around here winters are milder with typical winter highs of -15ºC to 0ºC. Today it was hovering around 0ºC with some sleet and freezing rain. I have learned a lot about ice storms since I moved here but I shovel a lot less.
Thanks for the welcome everyone. The wood is maple and birch. I am wanting to build a couple more of these "sheds" so I can get a couple of winters ahead and start cycling though the stacks in order of age. My location for those that asked is on the New Brunswick/Nova Scotia border, so essentially my drive to work is like a scene from the latest Mad Max movie.
Welcome to the club fellow Canuck! I love that first picture of you up to your eye balls shoveling snow! Nice stacks as well!
Welcome Fulltang. Love the lean-to, nicely done. That picture of you in the snow is crazy, though. If we ever had snow that deep I am sure we would have to move because my wife would not stand for that!
Welcome to the forum Fulltang There are some on this forum who understand that first picture; yooperdave for sure is one and I've shoveled a bit in my time too but not much now as we live in an area that is not known for deep snow, or at least not too often. You'll get a better roof soon but that will do fine for now. You are wise building for good air flow but I'm not certain you need that much room between the rows. We stack a bit tighter and have no problem and it all seems to dry at the same rate. Here is how we do it. Actually we tend to do all the splitting in spring then stack right after the splitting is done. We do not cover the wood that first summer but try to top cover by early December before much snow flies. Then we leave it sit. In October we move enough wood into the barn (close to house) for the winter's needs. Then starting usually around December 1 we start cutting wood again, then it is like the twins; Pete and Repeat. Here's a bit of good reading for you: Primer on Woodburning by Backwoods Savage
