Got my mountain of splits stacked today. Wanted to see how tall I could make a cube. 12'x5'x8' = 3.75 cord It's actually super stable. I even climbed up on top of it. This is 2015/2016 wood.
I will top cover, but I was beat after stacking it all. I saved a nice tarp off a bunk of 16' cedar 1x. That should cover it nicely and last hopefully. That was a lot of work to stack that high even when standing in the trailer. I figured that since I'll be looking at it for a couple years, I'd make it a conversation piece.
Cool. I went up a little less than 7' with a cube but found that it became pretty unstable as the wood dried. Part of that was because some of the wood had a spiral twist to the grain. I hope that yours remains stable. Looks like you have some mill slabs in there, that ought to help.
This is super stable. The slabs work great. Nice even, tight cribbing. I couldn't push it over if I wanted to. I put 4 - 2x4's across at about half way and stacked them into all three rows. Hopefully it'll stay that way. I'll let ya know!
That's awesome, Pyro! I like the use of vertical space. When I build my woodshed, I plan on making it at LEAST 8' tall inside. I'll be able to store twice the amount of wood in the same amount of space......
It's ok pyro lol that's a lot of hauling and not really worth multiple loads. Now if you could get it in one or two load I'd still trade
There is a bunch of mulberry and apple stuffed in there. Going to be hard to tear that stack apart three winters from now after admiring it for so long.
O man mulberry and apple are great woods too. Mulberry is one of my favorites it not only burns nice but looks nice !
Does anybody else do this, or is competitive stacking something else I need to discuss in the support group?
