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Title: Proper way to stack and dry fire wood
Post by: tinkera on December 17, 2011, 06:53:05 PM: HI all just wondering the best way to stack and dry firewood I have split it already someone was saying log cabin stacking is the way to go any thoughts.BTW the blocks are still sappy.Tinkera.
Title: Re: Proper way to stack and dry fire wood
Post by: baldheadedgit on December 17, 2011, 07:00:18 PM: Stack it any way you can..... just make sure you tie it together with 6b&s......................... ;D
Title: Re: Proper way to stack and dry fire wood
Post by: tinkera on December 17, 2011, 07:34:36 PM: Jolly joker but seriously do you think 6b&s would be heavy enough? Merry Christmas. Tinkera
Title: Re: Proper way to stack and dry fire wood
Post by: GU Rich on December 17, 2011, 07:39:45 PM: Try and stack it facing north for the most sun.. If not just bring it to my place I can find a spot for you!
Title: Re: Proper way to stack and dry fire wood
Post by: Mace on December 17, 2011, 07:42:54 PM: If its not this neat, youre not trying!

Merry Christmas.

:cheers: :cheers:
Title: Re: Proper way to stack and dry fire wood
Post by: markymark on December 17, 2011, 08:40:15 PM: This will be interesting!

I use to stack the wood neatly like a make-shift fence then a guy I work with said just chuck it in a heap for air-flow...I reckon the fence method allows more air flow. Another argument is do you have the bark facing up or the freshly split middle facing up. 2 different arguments to that is bark up is good to allow rain to just roll off and not sink into the wood you're trying to dry and yet the other was with the fresh stuff facing up the sun and air can get to it for quicker drying ???

Who knows?

Mark.
Title: Re: Proper way to stack and dry fire wood
Post by: POD on December 17, 2011, 08:45:26 PM: Does it REALLY make a lick of difference?

Stack it. Let it dry. Burn it.
Title: Re: Proper way to stack and dry fire wood
Post by: baldheadedgit on December 17, 2011, 08:47:27 PM: i always stacked it in an open fronted shed,, 12 months later, firewood..
But a guy at the timber yard said just pile it up, let the air get round it and leave it in the open for 12 months, he recons it works better.?.. can't see it myself, but thats how its getting seasoned this year,,, i'll tell you come winter how good it works...

BHG
Title: Re: Proper way to stack and dry fire wood
Post by: GU Rich on December 17, 2011, 08:48:13 PM: I stack mine with the bark up.

cheers
Title: Re: Proper way to stack and dry fire wood
Post by: GU Rich on December 17, 2011, 08:50:46 PM: http://www.google.com.au/search?sourceid=ie7&q=how+to+stack+and+dry+firewood&rls=com.microsoft:en-au:IE-SearchBox&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&rlz=1I7ACAW_enAU373AU373&redir_esc=&ei=gXPsTv3uF4W0iQeVocGQBw (http://www.google.com.au/search?sourceid=ie7&q=how+to+stack+and+dry+firewood&rls=com.microsoft:en-au:IE-SearchBox&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&rlz=1I7ACAW_enAU373AU373&redir_esc=&ei=gXPsTv3uF4W0iQeVocGQBw)

Try here.
Title: Re: Proper way to stack and dry fire wood
Post by: Mace on December 17, 2011, 08:52:40 PM: Quote from: GU Rich on December 17, 2011, 08:48:13 PM
I stack mine with the bark up.

cheers

ok, being serios now,

X2 with Rich, dont know why, dad did it.

If you want maximum air penetration, and therefore drying, stack it like this:

You need a lot more space tho.

:cheers:
Title: Re: Proper way to stack and dry fire wood
Post by: Crimso on December 18, 2011, 09:28:03 AM: I find the best way is to get someone else to do it. ;D

Seriously, why would you have bark on firewood? It should be knocked off when the tree is first dropped.
If you can, don't stack the wood on bare earth, moisture, termites etc, and cover it, left in the weather it seems to hold onto any moisture.
Title: Re: Proper way to stack and dry fire wood
Post by: SteveandViv on December 18, 2011, 09:37:08 AM: I did bark up and down depending on what best fitted the gaps and made it stable. When I was a kid and was dragged out into the NZ forested the wood wold be wet for a year no matter what so it would always take two years to be ready. Mind you with al those Earthquakes now it would likely shake the damp out.
Title: Re: Proper way to stack and dry fire wood
Post by: austastar on December 18, 2011, 11:12:50 AM: Hi,
I stack mine pretty tight between the roof poles, but keep the bottom bits on edge to avoid soaking up any water on the ground.
(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-QN6sRRnu2gE/Tu09Tmgi1CI/AAAAAAAABB8/iKHWF9GFlTM/s800/DSC01439.JPG?gl=AU)
I hope to get a roof on for next winter, but rain doesn't penetrate more than a few rows.
cheers
Title: Re: Proper way to stack and dry fire wood
Post by: tinkera on December 18, 2011, 11:20:15 AM: Thanks for the tips i,m going for your set up mace end grain out at the btm two rows on top of that running the full lenght of btm row so on and so on should get plenty of air around it should be dry enough for camping in the next years winter.Tinkera.
Title: Re: Proper way to stack and dry fire wood
Post by: jeeps on December 18, 2011, 12:53:46 PM: LOL how to stack firewood? There's only one way around here and that's off the ground or not at all to keep termites away. Any dry wood that touches the ground around here is full of termites in no time. I'm lucky, i can go for a walk down the back and cut it with the chainsaw as i need it and don't need to keep much up around the house. Welcome to QLD ;)

cheers
Title: Re: Proper way to stack and dry fire wood
Post by: tinkera on December 18, 2011, 03:52:27 PM: Yeah Jeeps I hear ya I haul mine back from my block on the Fraser coast leave it there and it would be mulch in no time.Even in Brizzy i,ve got steel channel under the base of the stack near the shed ,make it as hard as possible I say.Tinkera.
Title: Re: Proper way to stack and dry fire wood
Post by: jclures on December 18, 2011, 03:52:47 PM: Yes I am the same jeeps, if I leave wood to dry touching the ground, by the time it is dry the termites have found it.