I see piles of wood that people cut and split only to leave it to rot and turn into mulch...YOUR hard work should not go to waste and if you do the right things to prevent it you can have great wood to burn when you need it!!
I share your videos to so many people that don't want to listen to me about how your methods work, save time and heartache in the middle of winter when they don't have dry wood cause they stacked on the ground😂😂.
Thanks Chris, No one knows wood as good. You speak truth. I stack mine on custom 4' x 4' pallets 4' high. (1/2 cord). Then I put 8' x 8' black plastic on top, held on by nylon banding, tent clamps and bungee cords. Works great this far. Took me fifty years to settle on this method. In that time I hit all the pitfalls you mentioned. lol. shalom/gw
great tips Chris. i used to be one of those guys that covered the delivered pile of wood with tarps and left it on the ground. only took a year or two before i figured out that it wasn't a good plan. now, i just stack and cover the top if its outside of the woodshed when storing. if drying, leave completely uncovered up off the ground and into the woodshed when its dry. i normally have two seasons in the shed. this years and next years.
I had to stop my firewood processing 2 months ago for medical reasons, and I should be ready to report back for duty in about 3 weeks. I have 3 face cords of 2-yr seasoned mixed hardwood I couldn't finish storing before my operation, so I left the stack laying uncovered in a jumbled pile (like in your bins) on clean gravel and in an otherwise sunny and breezy area. I'm thinking on the gravel it'll be OK...fingers crossed.
Send the bill for the consult. We do stack between trees. The pallet on the trees concept is excellent. Good job Chris, another M.B.A. award.Stihl waiting for that locust.😁😁
Hey Chris! Speaking the truth! Years ago when I first started burning wood, I committed crimes number 1 and 2. My first stack was on the ground. Yes, made unburnable mulch on the bottom rows. Next year, put it on a rack and decided no more threat of rot so I covered it all year to keep out rain. What happened? We know what happened. 😆 If only you would have had a RU-vid channel back then…Thanks for the informative video! Take care.
I bought a telescope once. It had a wooden tripod and it was great fun. I kept it in the bedroom to look out at the stars at night. After a while I noticed 'dust' and just got to brushing it off. Sometime later I noticed holes and gouges on the tripod leggs. It was bloody woodworm! So I treated the wood and wrapped it all up for 6 months and killed the critters. I didn't tell the Landlord. My point is that a dusty log propped up alongside your indoor burner is a potential disaster down the road. I would tell my Wife this but that would cause a melt down with each and every log being inspected :-)
We just got a load of logs delivered yesterday, fresh cut. I've noticed a lot of rotten logs, more than usual. Its normal to have bad logs peppered in the load but at the high prices a truck goes for it hurts us when so many logs are bad
Nice video, good info. Hickory and ash rot fast on the ground. Locust and white oak take forever to rot. Walnut doesn't rot. That is why they make gun stocks from it
Yea, definitely a challenge to dry wood in a climate that averages at best. 3 hours of sun every day over the course of a year. Definitely the land of red heads, as risk of sun burning is quite low most of the time.
Chris, you talked about possibly setting your new sign in the background of all of your videos, but I have a better idea. You really need to pay a taxidermist to mount a standing woodchuck and then hang a smaller version of your sign around his neck (like in your vids), and then place that somewhere in the background of each video. Your own little mascot!
If you keep it out of the elements it will last many years. It will reach an equilibrium with moisture content and if bugs don't get into it it will good for a long time. YEARS.
Yeehaw!!!!! The next three days (here) supposed to be around or over 100 degrees Fahrenheit. (NW South Dakota) I think I'm movin' to Wisconsin......where it rains all the time. Next week the national weather circus says it is gonna be in the 70's and 80's???? (here) No rotten wood here on the ground .....? Really, really, really dry wood. (right now anyway)
Hey Chris. Very informative. Thank you I wish Joe from Ohio Wood burner would watch your videos.. he pays high school kids to stack his wood . He theory is …. That’s the ONLY way ? lol. Thanks again. Craig. Pa.
