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NOW NEED TO STACK FIREWOOD

Will save you going to the gym later!!
 
Did you split it all duke? It’s getting it from there to where it’s going to dry without touching each piece twice that’s the pain. Some sort of wheeled rack system?
Our firewood guy backs into the garage and tips it out, lucky to have high garage doors I suppose.
 
No Ian, just get the seasoned split wood delivered. Will use the tractor to get it into the garage. 12 face cords with 2 left over from last season so 14 cords. Should get us through the winter.
 
Heating in the house is electric rads or a wood burner in the living room, chimney runs up the middle of the house and will if the fire is on all day warm the downstairs bedroom, master bedroom and bathroom upstairs which all back onto the chimney. Solid floor upstairs also get warmed.
So guess it’s necessity and the lure of a log fire knowing that is carbon neutral helps. Although most lecky in France is nuclear generated.
 
Thinking we would have a quick sale, I gave away a shedload of firewood....admittedly pretty rubbish TBH or not very seasoned. I have been foraging.
And TBH, although I love an open fire and my missus does especially....wherever we go next, I'd be happy with a radiator. It really is such a b*llache cutting the wood, seasoning it, dragging it up to be split, storing it.
 
RogerS said:
Thinking we would have a quick sale, I gave away a shedload of firewood....admittedly pretty rubbish TBH or not very seasoned. I have been foraging.
And TBH, although I love an open fire and my missus does especially....wherever we go next, I'd be happy with a radiator. It really is such a b*llache cutting the wood, seasoning it, dragging it up to be split, storing it.
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We dont have to cut nor split. We buy unseasoned as we have the space to dry. I have to agree every year it takes longer to work up the enthusiasm to move from drive to those open air piles then after a year from the open air to covered storage.
 
What would equate to four steres delivered on Friday and stacked. Balin says in a deleted scene from the Hobbit: ‘my goat riding days are over’. I’m starting to think that about stacking logs. That should see us through the winter, although we don’t live there all the time. Mostly birch, some sycamore and ash.

And a great week end for wild life: a peregrine falcon sat on the kitchen window sill looking at me in a quizzical manner for about 5 minutes. Our resident hare has shown up again (actually, may not be the same one, seemed rude to ask). And the deer are coming down off the hill – weather I expect, Sunday was a bit blustery. Most of the sheep are down.
 
AndyP said:
We dont have to cut nor split. We buy unseasoned as we have the space to dry. I have to agree every year it takes longer to work up the enthusiasm to move from drive to those open air piles then after a year from the open air to covered storage.
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Everybody buys unseasoned logs. It's just the gullibility that varies.
 
I'm trying to find time to stack firewood as well. Up to neck in on going house renovation but need to get it off the ground shortly.
 
A stere is a unit of measure designed to make it impossible for the customer to see if he has received what he has paid for;):). Well that’s the cynics view.
1 stere = 1 cubic metre of unsplit logs 1m long. Every time the logs are cut and split the volume is reduced. My logs are 50cm which reduces the delivered volume by about 20% .
 
AndyP said:
A stere is a unit of measure designed to make it impossible for the customer to see if he has received what he has paid for;):). Well that’s the cynics view.
1 stere = 1 cubic metre of unsplit logs 1m long. Every time the logs are cut and split the volume is reduced. My logs are 50cm which reduces the delivered volume by about 20% .
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Funny!
But not sure why cutting and chopping means the wood takes up less space?
I’ve seen the French way of storing logs between trees and I’ve always wondered why they cut them so long, if they were cut shorter they wouldn’t need to do it again and they would dry out quicker- but then they are French!
 
As an example Ian imagine a box full of large stones, then break the stones into smaller ones. They will take up less space.
 
Cabinetman said:
Funny!
But not sure why cutting and chopping means the wood takes up less space?
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The logs aren't perfectly straight, so the longer they are the more gaps you'll have between them caused by waviness and the like. Cut shorter they'll pack more efficiently, so the same pile of wood will take up less volume.
 
AndyP said:
As an example Ian imagine a box full of large stones, then break the stones into smaller ones. They will take up less space.
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Well that’s a good example, but then if you start off with a tree trunk and cut it up it can’t be as efficiently put together space wise as it was, was what I was thinking. But absolutely understand your point.
spb said:
The logs aren't perfectly straight, so the longer they are the more gaps you'll have between them caused by waviness and the like. Cut shorter they'll pack more efficiently, so the same pile of wood will take up less volume.
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well now that is a good point.
 
AndyP said:
A stere is a unit of measure designed to make it impossible for the customer to see if he has received what he has paid for;):). Well that’s the cynics view.
1 stere = 1 cubic metre of unsplit logs 1m long. Every time the logs are cut and split the volume is reduced. My logs are 50cm which reduces the delivered volume by about 20% .
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Is this a standard cut lenghth (50cm), our standard length is 40plus cm.(16")
 
Our Bush Cord is 8' x 4' x 4' not split.
What they also do here is get a transport trailer load of logs and cut and split the wood.
 
Last winter and spring we made some 60 stacked cubic metres of firewood. All the way from windfallen trees to firewood drying at home. We split and stack one metre lenghts because they are reasonably easy to manhandle and make stable stacks. Then we cut the wood to shorter lenghts for burning as needs arise.
This winters project is to build a woodshed for shortwood so we can just cut it to lenght and throw it in without stacking. The woodshed will be 4x5 metres with log walls without long grooves so the wind will blow through. Stacking shortwood is a real pain and takes forever. I feel for you.

Firewood handling is all about rationalizing. It is easy to work yourself to death if you don't.

This was last winter. On my way home with a load across the frozen bay. I was logging windfalls on an island. The ice was between 40 and 50 cm thick and safely carried tractor and load.
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That is a nice rig for loading logs. Yes stacking is a pain but your idea of a wood shed and just chucking them in is easier.
What's that saying - you get warmed up four times with processing firewood, -cutting the tree - cutting to length and splitting - stacking the wood - then bringing it in to burn.
 
Firewood is finally stacked, 3 hours work, all to be done is drag the tarp into garage and dump out the bark bits to dry.1000003667.jpg1000003666.jpg
 
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