Post your Firewood Stacking Method

[RI Chevy]

I bet.

 

[Wood Doctor]

I just cut this yesterday. Roadside kill.
I have to go back and get the trunk. Lol

In the last Pic shown here that log alone would pull in about $150 at the sawmill, provided you could haul it there in one piece. The mill usually wants a minimum 12" dia. Nice find and happy burning!

 

[RI Chevy]

I would love to make money. I just do not have the means to get the log there. [emoji20]

 

[Wolverine]

Brought more in the basement. I like crossing ends too. Although next year I will get some 2x4’s and make some solid ends that I can remove for off season.


I lean them in a little.

 

[460 magnum]

What is the idea behind the lean

 

[Wolverine]

My splits aren’t perfect so it’s a little wobbly. Lean just helps keep it from falling, which we have had happen.
I love every aspect of firewood’n except carrying and stacking it in the basement, so the fam usually does that part. After getting the slight lean we haven’t had any messes to redo.

 

[RI Chevy]

My stacks always fall over when the wood dries and shrinks. I have to use something to prevent the pile from washing out.

 

[RI Chevy]

Same for me Jason. Lol

 

[Wood Doctor]

I would love to make money. I just do not have the means to get the log there.

That's exactly my situation. The drop site where I find logs like this is too far away from the logger that I work with who has the picker truck. So, I end up buck cutting them to length and then noodle cutting the rounds into halves, quarters, and even sixths for a few monsters. After that, I can load them onto the pickup and transport them to the splitter.

It's not uncommon for an 8' log to weigh over 1500 lb and the greener it is, the more that it weighs. Oak and mulberry are ungodly heavy. Right now I'm all shut down because of the cold and wet snow. Many of the logs are ready to buck, but they are frozen to the ground. Hopeless case.

 

[Ryan Browne]

What is the idea behind the lean

Gravity always wins.

 

[Wood Doctor]

I seldom lean my crib ends, but it never hurts to lean inward. My customers always appreciate the straight-up crib stacks. However, they sometimes forget to unstack their logs from the center out. Instead, they unstack left to right or right to left, reducing the height of the crib ends until they finally cannot hold the rest of the logs and down they go.

One of my lady customers told me that her husband came in loaded one night and did exactly that. She was rather furious and afterwards refused to give him any late-night snack...

 

[Wolverine]

One of my lady customers told me that her husband came in loaded one night and did exactly that. She was rather furious and afterwards refused to give him any late-night snack...

 

[danimal]

Man! Yous guys do sum fancy chit fer firewood piles.
I just layout a bunch of skids and pile it 6ft high anymore.
Guess I burn so damn much that I ain't takin time to make it fancy..
My Bride says it looks like chit!
I told her , ya want it stacked, go fer it.
Never heard another word..

 

[danimal]

I would love to make money. I just do not have the means to get the log there. [emoji20]

Last yr 2 fellas N me scored sum logs from a jobsite clearing . 1 had a dump trailer, other had a big skidsteer w/forks. I have 6 white oak logs, 2.5-3.5ft dia. 10ft long. Logger bud offered me cnote apiece for em.
I told him that's 900 bucks worth of heat.. ! End of discussion ..

 

[redoakneck]

Local lumber yard!!!

 

[danimal]

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Local lumber yard!!!

Couple winters fer me.
Guy at work has a GIANT old smoke dragon at home. Heats his house, hot water, big shop(garage), and an apartment above the shop.
40 plus cord a yr.
Theres a yrs worth for him.

 

[460 magnum]

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Local lumber yard!!!

How does that cattle panel support the load of wood when its full

 

[chaded]

I have my splitter by my OWB and the wood gets split and thrown in a pile right in front of the burner. Don’t want to have to carry it too far.

 

[redoakneck]

How does that cattle panel support the load of wood when its full

I don't fill to the top, only about halfway, gets too heavy. I put the panel in to keep them from falling out the sides down low.

 

[Wolverine]

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Local lumber yard!!!

Damn, if it’s free, I’d clean em out!