One pic is my new wood shed. The neat stack is only done because I had to get the pile out of the way to put on the roof. The second pic is my usual way of handling wood.
Stacking is such a pain. Doubles or triples the amount of time you are dealing with wood. At a minimum in adds one more handling step. The floor of my woodshed is covered in pallets, so air can circulate through the stack. Consider that a wood stack is a lot more air leaky than a house, and a house will have an air change every hour or so. I don't think that more air than that will dry the wood any faster. The limiting factor is the movement of water inside the wood to the surface.
So I stack some at the edges so I can make the pile higher, but mostly I don't stack.
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Normally wood collecting is done in late fall. This year we had a burglary and life has been chaotic. And we've had twice the normal snow
I need to use the snowblower to move the tractor anywhere. With the ground still thawed, it's really easy to get stuck. Even the road side ditch once took me over an hour to get out of.
So I'm spending two hours a day felling, cutting and splitting by hand, and sledding it out with a calf sled. Keeps me fit.