Thanks for the offer! If it gets that desperate I’ll rent a trailer and run down to our mill to grab some GC treated dimensional. Your capacity for work and travel in a day far exceeds my own! A true FWH!
I dont use telephone poles, but I use the "T" boards that they bolt to the very top of the poles to string the wires off of. My local Comcast cable/internet providers service yard has a pile of poles and those boards out back by the road. I grab tons of boards. I use them for ground contact to put all my stacks on, and as end posts where needed as well.
Don't stack on the slope up/down but run the stacks sideways of the slope. For me it might be easier as I use saplings to stack on. Just use 2 of them but in your case use one small diameter no bigger than 3-4" for sure. Then it depends on how steep the slope is to determine how big the second log will have to be to make the stacking level. It is actually very easy to do and the cost should be $0.00
Wouldn't round saplings would want to roll down the hill? And using square PT lumber ($$, especially for the larger downhill side) would have to be cut so the the top was "level", since its going to lay with the angle of the hill.
Not sure what kind of slope we're talking about but our yard is fairly steep. Ended up planting a third one. The back stack is leaning up against an ash.
Can you partly dig into the hill and level a pallet or rows of pallets then stack? Kinda like terrace gardening. One of my stacks is on a slope. I have a 2x12 in the front. Pallets rest on it in the front and on grade in back. 3' wide pallets. Double row stack of 16" splits.
Take a look at landscaping timbers. They are a lot less $$$ than 4x4's and will do the same trick to act as sleepers
I've got at least 2 woodchucks under some wood piles. Haven't been strong enough to handle traps so they wait until next year.
Double bubble gum will fix them with nearly zero effort on your part. Seriously. I fed my resident woodchuck 5 pieces of double bubble and a week or so later feed another 5 pieces and I haven't seen it in over a month now. Best $2.50 spent ever.
.22 air rifle...barely a sound...unless you buy a high dollar one, then some of those actually pop like a .22 short... I've taken down 5 hawgs here this year with my Benjamin .22 Nitro.
I agree that it could probably be done...but if the hill is any kind of steep at all, stacking that way and expecting it to stay for 3+ years sounds risky to me...but what do I know...I'm on fairly flat ground and have still had stacks topple due to frost heave.
