Just found out a cord of (lightly) seasoned firewood I ordered will be delivered tomorrow morning. It will be dumped in the driveway and sit there at least until this weekend (probably longer), until I get around to stacking it properly in some racks off the ground. Should I be worried about it getting rained on (forecast tomorrow is for rain all day, of course!) and sitting in any puddles that form in the driveway for a couple days (or weeks...), or will it dry out ok once I get it up off the ground? 10 day forecast has a mix of showers and sun after tomorrow's downpours, and I won't be burning any of this for at least a month or so.
That will be fine until you can move it. I'd be more worried about someone liberating it via a 5 finger discount.
I'm almost always home, and the driveway is right outside my bedroom window. If somebody can liberate a cord of wood quickly and quietly enough that I wouldn't notice them, I'll hire them to stack it for me instead!
It’s sad that someone would need to worry about someone stealing their heat. I stack my wood close to the road at times, often thought someone would help themselves but I don’t believe it’s happened. Takes a real dirt bag to steal someone’s heat. Not saying they arnt out there but...
They are out there, had someone steal an umbrella off our front stoop 20 minutes after my wife left it there to enter the house. Makes me want to get the Nest door bell more and more.
A pile in the driveway with a tarp over it is how I used to stack my wood at one time. That's how it was delivered, that's how I used it. It'll be fine as long as it doesn't snow, rain and freeze, then you might need a big hammer to liberate splits from the pile or the ground.
Appreciate all the advice! Wood arrived this morning, I covered it immediately with a tarp, and I'll try to get it stacked off the ground over the next couple weekends.
My neighbor did. Took 2 nice size cherry rounds out of my pile. I didn't realize at first and one day I look back at this burn pile and I see these 2 rounds and I'm like now where did he get those at, because he didn't have any wood.. I quickly realized they came from my stack.. He is using them for seats. The kicker is his mom use to live next door and he inherited the place and I never saw him for the first few years I lived here. 1 day I saw him dragging his dog on a tarp. So I went out and helped him get his friend out to the back 40 so he can bury him. This was before he moved in and stole my wood. He's been a PITA since than.
A few years ago, my girlfriend and I worked hard one afternoon to CSS a bone dry dead oak and put it on my cabin porch a few days before deer season. It was a good sized rank. When I arrived 2 days later, every stick was gone! Dirty b$%&$'s backed right up to the porch and helped themselves. Since then, I have placed a post gate at end of the short driveway. None has ever been taken since, guess if you are a wood thief, carrying it 100' is too much work.
What do you burn in your burn pile? trash, brush whatever burns? I don't understand what you are trying to say or imply. No he didn't burn my wood, he used it for furniture, does that make it ok for him to take it?
Absolutely not, maybe I did not word it correctly.. I thought it was odd he had no wood and a burn pile. Wondered if he was stealing splits also.. No offense meant.
Same thing I first thought - if he's brazen enough to use a couple rounds for furniture, what's to say he hasn't been toasting his marshmallows over your sweat and hard work? Sounds like time for a neighborly "Get off my lawn" chat!
I've had that discussion with him more than once and enough times I'm done bringing it up. I just straddle the property line now with my truck when I bring a load of wood in. If he has taken some splits it's not enough to notice. I keep my split stuff covered well enough I think I would notice. It took me a minute to figure out he took the rounds though. I don't always cover the rounds and at the time it never occurred to me someone would be like that. I didn't pick up on taking the splits when you posted but I definitely see your point and pay closer attention now since that incident.
Just leave it uncovered that way the dirt can get washed off the top rounds. But then there are those who will demand you leave it in a stack for an extra year because it got rained on once. World is full of dirt bags now and not all are inter city kids with no bring up in a duel famly invirment. They will steal any thing not nailed down and right in front of securty cameras even. Al
