Nice job! Friendly advice:
Stack the ends like this:
It will prevent a collapse (logs roll away to the left and/or right)
Ooh that’s a good idea, that. I’ll do that for the next batch. Thanks!
And probably shouldn’t stack it next to a building. Or are termites not a thing there?
Termites don’t tolerate the snow. Below 25F(-4C) they die quickly. In areas with a month or two of freezing temps they don’t survive.
That being said with global warming they are steadily moving further north and south latitudes.
I live in the southeast US and termites are a bitch, they were always in our firewood when I was growing up, and I’m sure they’re worse now because our winters are now so mild
Good info to know, we always had the wood pile away when my dad did it but I hadn’t thought of that. Course when I was young we were in northern BC so probably not an issue there since it was a winter thing. No burning in my current place but good knowledge if I ever get a fireplace, since I’m in somewhat warmer areas now. Probably shouldn’t chop any myself give my coordination either.
No termites. And in fact, I have 1.5 cords in a wooden shed behind the cottage, and maybe half a cord in the wooden garage 🙂
Ahh the Jenga method.
More wood to chop tomorrow…
Familiar sight. Got some trees left to cut down, some to cut to logs and lots of logs to split. Also got a inguinal hernia waiting to be treated.
Ohhhhh boy… Been there and totally know that job. So far, the work you’ve done is glorious.
some wood
Picture with a billion woods. Nice.
My father built our first house on an acreage in 1984. He chose to put in a wood furnace because we were surrounded by trees. One of my strongest memories is being in the basement stacking wood as he passed it down through a hatch he built into the wall of the garage.
That is a lot. My back hurts just looking at all of that.
Please rest your back and dont do hard work for a while.
To see if i still feel
I couldn’t stack it all away
That unforgiving chillDid you carry water as well?
“some”
Captain America is apparently a member of this community
Don’t take from his pile
So we had crews going by making a new path for a power line through the bush, and there’s acres of bucked up poplar in piles. I might head out tomorrow with a tractor and fill a few buckets.
Love me some poplar for the woodstove, that stuff burns hot if it’s dry but not old.
I always have a blast chopping wood
Nothing like chopping wood to clear your head. Well, maybe shifting snow with a snow shovel…
Back in the day, when water wasn’t metered, folk would sit on a lawn chair in their garage, and water the concrete driveways. Good times!
What good does that do? The water would refreeze instantly, and then all the driveway would be good for is running a Zamboni on it, as it would become slippery to death.
Yes!
So was it to create a private skating rink? 🙂
tbh, as kids/teens, we never could figure out why folks did it, as they also usually had nice lawns, gardens, and veggies, etc. so they had ample time with the hose.
But as I water my gardens nowadays, I understand better the cathartic and therapeutic effects.
The thumbnail looks like a beaver if you squint. So of course my brain went “wow, that beaver has internet in his lodge?”
Is this strictly for heating / cooking, or do you make use of it for other stuff?
Just heating - and as a supplemental source of heat too: the main heating system is geothermal. But this is an old house with a fiendishly efficient stove. So I burn a few logs in there every day and it keeps the entire house nice and warm without the heat pump doing much.
I thought you had to lay bark facing out.
I thought bark up. And logs in line with the dominant wind direction. But as long as you cover it and allow for ventilation it will dry.
I’m not doing any of that. I have enough dry wood to last me 2 years, so even if I do nothing, this lot will be dry by the time I need to use it.
I too have always 3…5 winters worth (one can hardly have too much) but I keep it covered and ventilated to avoid chances of rotting.
