Stacking your firewood

Hello All This has been discussed before, however I was Just wondering when you all start to bringing in the seasoned firewood to be stacked in the cool dry basement to start the burning season. Do you do it by the date of the month or daytime temp. I like to have enough in the basement to get thru some bad weather (so I don’t have to hustle if bad weather is coming).

 

I watch the night time temperature and make my decisions accordingly. I’m in the south so there’s no rush to do any of it. It will be October before nighttime temps dip into the 40’s.

 

I load mine into the garage. And I plan on moving shoulder wood in this weekend if I can get chit out of the way.

 

I brought mine in about three weeks ago to make room in the woodshed for the logs I'm now cutting up and splitting. I do it around my holidays in August.

 

I don't bring wood inside. I do bring wood up on the deck and stack it there, covered.

That stack gets refilled through the heating season.

I brought wood to the deck a couple of weeks ago.

 

I have a couple splits of pine in a tote by the stove. We're usually not burning until after Halloween. Kinda depends on the weather. Even then I only have a week or two supply on the patio by the back door. If we are going to have extended period of snow on the ground I've put a week or two supply in the garden/tool shed which isn't too far from the back door.

 

As soon as I make room I fill the open spaces in the garage when I get a few days of cooler, dry sunny weather like we are getting now.

This silver maple was brought in this week for shoulder season at the end of this winter, likely Marchl, as it is not as dry as I want in since it was just scrounged in the neighborhood this past summer. It dries pretty fast. I will bring some dry stuff for the beginning of shoulder season which is coming soon.

 

I try to only keep a couple days worth inside. I have a rack on my porch to keep it out of the weather. If there’s a snowstorm predicted, I’ll bring in a few weeks worth into the basement bc the wind will get any wood outside snowed on.

 

I evicted my wifes flower pots and junky things off the porch tonight. I usually pack wood into the house until September 15, but it is already getting to cold to pack that much wood every day from my cache yard. got half a cord of Lodgepole and half a cord of 400 year old fir on the porch. It''ll stay that way until mid June usually.

 

I just finished off my last row in the woodshed next to the boiler. I've got about 8 cord under cover and will put about 4 more "inside". The rest will get stacked in rows about 20-30' from the boiler and top covered. I'll use that in the really cold weather. The "inside" stuff I burn when it's rainy & damp. I don't mind loading the boiler in the snow, but I don't care for getting rained on at 40 degrees. All I need now is cooler weather.

 

I made these racks out of discarded plant racks being thrown out at local BJs.
They sit outside room with stove. Last pic is emergency wood for Noreasters and big snowfalls when its tough to move around for a couple of days

 

I wait for cooler temps. No real set timeframe. If I need room in the stacks it’ll get brought in earlier as I fit about 2 cord in my unfinished basement.

 

I don't store much wood indoors, and the stuff that goes inside gets burned within a day or so. I have a rack outside my back door on my deck that holds about half a face cord. Down below my deck I have another rack that holds around 3/4 cord. As of this year I'm doing things differently and I filled both racks back on Memorial Day weekend. Now I don't have to worry about moving more in until sometime in December (I'm guessing). As the winter drags on I'll move in more wood from the backyard as needed. It works for me.

 

That's all that really counts.

 

Same here I don't store firewood inside because I have a ton of termites out back and I am scared to death of bringing them into the house. I have a wood shed just out back that holds about 1 1/2 - 2 cords and I store about a face cord out front on the porch which is covered. Wood shed was reloaded back in the spring (to free up some racks), the porch will be loaded up in the next couple weeks.

My wife likes to get that halloween spider web stuff and stretch it all across the firewood on the porch, looks kinda cool! We don't usually start burning till late Nov early Dec.

 

I really don't know what I'm going to do.
I've got a 1 year old who just figured out how to walk. I know most people are going to say that kids learn not to touch hot, and if they do they'll learn quick not to do it again.
But those people don't live with my wife, have my mom or MIL over. I want to enjoy living in my house too lol.

I'll come up with something and post it to you guys, maybe even for just a laugh.

 

Something like this?

 

Hahah, I can understand that for sure! Happy wife, mom, MIL = happy life.....! 1yr is tough, but we didn't put anything extra to block them, they do learn very very quick and we were always in that room watching like hawks. I recall once my daughter walking by it and she immediately felt the heat, stopped, looked at it, and took a wide berth around the front of the stove, she knew. But at the same time I understand your predicament 100% and all kids are different.

 

Yeah, a lot of people do the stove fence deal. It's a PITA but if you can put off the eventual learning burn to where it's a fingertip and not a face it is worth it.