Holz Hausen-Dry Wood In Three Months?

[MossRoad]

i think the round stacks acts like a compost, no?

The theory is air is drawn up through the stack as it warms in the sun.

 

[murphy1244]

Same same

 

[tcreeley]

The round stacks look great, but I hate to think what it is like getting through the snow to get to the wood! I like the straight lines that I can clear along side with the bucket. I plan my approach when I stack it - 4' to 5' high in 16'-20' rows. I do a row at a time getting my wood in the winter, working along it until I am ready for the next row. It is always covered by the tarp that I just flip up when I want some wood.

Really the answer to all of this is a wood shed and cut ahead a couple of years.

 

[oldpilgrim]

I split a bunch of flat 'shingles' that I put on the top to keep the rain out. I leave the piles uncovered. I use a tarp to cover the ones during the winter that are ones I plan on using so I don't have to dig the snow off the wood that I bring in.


Shingles on one and one being built:

 

[MossRoad]

The round stacks look great, but I hate to think what it is like getting through the snow to get to the wood! I like the straight lines that I can clear along side with the bucket. I plan my approach when I stack it - 4' to 5' high in 16'-20' rows. I do a row at a time getting my wood in the winter, working along it until I am ready for the next row. It is always covered by the tarp that I just flip up when I want some wood.

Really the answer to all of this is a wood shed and cut ahead a couple of years.

Just like any firewood stack, the snow will pile up against it.... and soak it. We had a bad winter (by our standards, not yours :laughing: ) last year and had 3' of snow piled up against the bottom of the round stack AND blown into it. My outer ring of wood was frozen solid. I had to dig into the center. Buy the time I was done, I had a wooden fort! :laughing:

 

[joecoin]

Don't you get dizzy building that round stack?

 

[Garandman]

The round stacks look great, but I hate to think what it is like getting through the snow to get to the wood!

....Really the answer to all of this is a wood shed and cut ahead a couple of years.

There is little or no discussion on German forums of accelerated seasoning. They build the piles two years in advance, and usually move them to racks nearer the house in preparation for winter. So clearing around them in snow isn't a big concern, and all they would need is a path anyway: they don't all around access because they usually take from the back.

Sometimes the piles are built in the area, but often they are stacked in the woods near where they are cut.

Mine is fairly small (6' diameter, 5' high, about 1/2 a cord) and mostly Oak that I have no plans to use for a couple seasons. We put up ash in a couple of stacks near the house as we needed something to burn this winter. Now as we split (mix of Ash, Birch, Maple and a little Oak) I've been stacking in single rows between trees, oriented to get some direct sunlight and the prevailing wind.

 

[Garandman]

In France they stack wood against the building, under the roof overhangs. Interesting.

 

[murphy1244]

In France they eat bugs too.

 

[MossRoad]

In France they eat bugs too.

Oui! :licking: