I don't think I've posted pictures of my stacks before, and I figured this was a good time to start, as I'm getting 5 cords of fruit wood rounds delivered over the next 10 days to fill out my 15/16 supply. I'll be sure to post more along the way as things progress with that. Enjoy!
yeah, nice looking stacks, nice looking scenery and a nice looking home. Tell me how the clear plastic corrugated roof panels work out as covers?
I live in the Wasatch Mountains in Utah, specifically in Big Cottonwood Canyon (hence the BCC username). It's a gorgeous area. My house gets between 350 and 400 inches of snow a winter, so you've got to be a true fan of winter to enjoy it, but I can be in the heart of a suburb that could be literally anywhere in America within 12 miles of my front door. It's a great balance, as it allows me to moonlight as a mountain man in my free time while still holding down a desk job in Salt Lake City. The clear plastic works out beautifully for summer top covering, especially with my racks, which keep some space between the panels and the top row of wood. It blocks 98% of the rain, but I still get almost as much wind and sun as I would on an uncovered stack. I will be removing those in the next 3-4 weeks and switching to heavy gauge, 12 mil tarps on all my wood at that point. I use washers and screws to attach the tarps to my racks via the grommets. That allows me to cover the sides a bit more and to not have to worry about snow loading. Those plastic panels could not handle the snowfall I get here, particularly when you start removing wood from under them. I actually just put the plywood on those stacks yesterday morning, as we finally had 6 or 7 days of dry weather after a long stretch of rain. Glad I did because we have been having some major downpours this morning, and I'm running out of warm weather this fall.
Great looking stacks Looks like a variety of wood types . Burning wood & shoveling snow, you have a busy winter
BCC, that is beautiful and I completely understand why you would love it. Get to hold a good job yet come home and home is beautiful. 300-400 inches of snow is a lot for sure. We've been in areas of 300" but not 400" but can imagine what it would be like. One has to like snow to enjoy that sort of thing. Must be interesting getting wood during winter if you don't have an indoor place to store the winter's supply.
The largest stack (on the driveway) is a mix of about a dozen different kinds of hard and softwoods. I actually picked all of that up from another burner who was moving out of state. He split all of it in the winter of 12/13 and had it stacked off the floor in his well ventilated pole barn. All of the other wood pictured was split by hand with my trusty X27 or 8 pound maul. The racks near the grill are primarily subalpine fir, lodgepole pine, box elder and silver maple. There is some random quaking aspen mixed in here and there, but as far as free wood goes, I'll take the fir over quakie any day. Unfortunately I don't have room for more than 3-4 days worth of wood in the house. The two racks on the deck are easy to dig out, as they are sitting on a Trex patio that is extremely quick and easy to shovel. The rack on the driveway has room enough on all 4 sides for me to clear around it with my snowblower, so I'll just rake the top off after storms and clean it with the blower. The stack behind the grill is the one that needs the most digging, and the one that is completely uncovered in the picture sits under a very dense clump of fir trees. Even when the snow was at it's deepest last winter, it was only 14-18 inches deep under those trees, so that one won't be too bad, and that is 15/16 wood. It is a lot of snowfall, last winter was a below average year and I had 3-6 feet of settled snow in my yard from January until early May. First snow usually flies around October 1, and by Halloween we have the beginnings of our winter snowpack on the ground. I am an avid skier, so my location is ideal, I can walk to a ski resort from my house, or can go hike up the hills in my "back yard" to ski as well. You do truly need to be a snow lover to live where I do, as there is snow on the ground from mid October to early June most years. I've seen accumulating snow fall at my house in every month except July and August. But boy, there aren't many things better than coming home from a full day of skiing in a snow storm and taking off your ski boots in front a wood stove.
