The OFFICIAL Firewood Hoarder's Club thread!!!

Is there ever a risk if you accumulate too much, the wood sitting outside will be punky by the time you go to burn it 5+ years after it was stacked? This is for the 30-50 cord club.

 

Well you can always go up my friend

 

Here we go, about 11 cord split and stacked with probably 4 more cord in rounds and quarters

 

Hi....my name is Schlot...and I'm a wood-a-holic.

 

We have a 12 step program for that......keep some wood within 12 steps of your stove

 

Yep, hoping to buy some land next to my house to use for a wood lot. We will see.

 

That is a section of my Rustic Renewable Fence. Course the city likely wants a permit for the fence, so then it just fire wood stacks or which ever way I need to twist words. A few more pics

 

Never in my life have I seen such huge wood stacks as I have in in this thread. There is a firewood outfit on a road behind me who is always trucking in wood and processing it for resale. He never has 30 + cord on hand.
Wood cut before it leaves out, is sold as dry wood. Even if it was cut during the winter of the same year. I never knew of three year cycles for wood drying until I came on this site. No wonder there are so many chimney fires. Just down the hill from me, the still air often really chocks you on freezing nights. It get worse when the river freezes and there are a lot of smelt shanties on the river. If that wood met the standards you guys have set, I doubt that wood smoke would be so extreme.

 

They sure set me on the right path. I had some green I would have burned last year if I had not joined this clique. I was brought up with a bad example, but now I am being a good example to Dad and to my brother (not sure how much he will clean up his act).

 

Thats a good question Ive been wondering the same thing myself but I believe and hopefully someone will correct me if Im wrong but that as long as its kept off the ground and top covered it should last a right long time. I think the key is off the ground and only top covered.

 

I think it also depends on the type of wood. Birch, I think I heard, is quicker to rot than others.

 

Yeah I should have thought of that. I think pine is another one that you dont want to keep around for to long.

 

It is a moisture ,mold/fungus, Enzyme, bug mix that does it in. the more moisture you can remove the longer it will last. Look at furniture, 100 year old pieces, wood is still good, glues and finishes might have dried out, old iron screws and nails rusted away due to acidic nature of some woods like Oak ect. Then there are some species that seem to self destruct while still viable. I have some linden that I do not think will dry enough before the fungus destroys it's cellular strength.

 

Yep even lowly Willow and Cotton wood can be amazing when properly dried. 4 - 3"x3 splits of Willow on some moderate coals secondaries firing off 15 minutes later, NC30. Just enough to take the chill off, otherwise I will be opening a lot of windows.

 

So I just stacked my 15th face cord today.
I say face cord because each of my stacks is 4 ft x 8 ft, but my split lengths vary anywhere between 16" and 24", so I actually have 5 cords +, but it's just easier to count by my minimum estimate.

My goal was 12 cords for the 3 year plan. But now that someone pointed out a solid three year plan is actually a 4 year plan, I think I'll need an extra 4 cords.

 

Oh , Oh I think I see another case of FAD developing.

 

Splitter is supposed to come back tonight, going to split dad's first, he needs it this year.

 

Oh, and for anyone that's not aware, this is some dead elm that I suspect is in the lower 20s. I will get the meter in it tonight.