3 REASONS TO STACK FIREWOOD... OR NOT TO!
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- Опубликовано: 22 июл 2024
- Why you SHOULD or SHOULD NOT stack FIREWOOD! 3 reasons to stack it and a bunch of reasons not to stack your FIREWOOD! Stacked firewood looks great and you know how much you have plus it saves space and you get exercise all at the same time!
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Nothing better way to recoup from total knee surgery than to sit back & watch one of my favorite RUclips channels of which In The Woodyard is one of them. Usually the first I will watch when I get up. Keep up the super content Chris & have a wonderful
He makes great content
even better to watch someone else stack the wood
Thanks John!
Thanks Joe, I learned it all from you!
Great channel to watch if you are under concussion protocol.
4th reason- takes up less space in the woodyard.
yup!
Good morning all! All valid, but you can't beat the beauty of stacked firewood.
Yup, it is pretty!
I just started my no stacking bin #2! Thanks Chris👍👍
A few more fence posts and your bin #2 should hold up fine.
@@thefirewooddoctor I think you are right!
Awesome..more time to cut now!
I can see you with a 2nd vocation stand up comic. You are a funny guy thanks for the humor 😄
Thanks, I like to have fun!
Very good Chris. Agree with everything you say. I stack our wood because our woodyard is in our village. I do the bulk of the processing elsewhere and bring it to the yard to be stacked and dried. Then I load it and sell it. I like the idea of bins but by stacking it people like it. Around our village it is seen as a bit of a sculpture or art piece. If I ever end up with a woodyard out of town I will go to bins. Amen.
Yup, keeping up with the neighbors is what most people think they have to do.
I'm glad to see what I told you about not stacking several years ago has taken hold, but you have better reasons than I did! - The US Bureau of Weights and Measures established long ago the standards for cords and ricks, no "face cords", that's more recent, common usage. The Bureau has been eliminated in cost cutting gov't moves. The etymology of "face cords" is a whole 'nother subject.
What ever the gubmint decides to do we should do the opposite.
Stacking bark down is a drying mode. Stacking bark up is a storing mode. I had 20m3 done in our summer cottage stacked bark down 1,5 years ago and now I took them home and stacked bark up.
Because all of them couldn't fit in shed.
This is very old way to handle firewood. In old days firewood was cut , split and stacked in forest during winter time. And bark down. Next summer they took firewood to home and stacked bark up. In April and May you got most of the water out this way.
WOW! That sounds like a lot of extra handling!
Awesome vid today Chris! 🔥💯👍. Great topic and the tour update around the woodyard!! It’s definitely the place to be!! Enjoy visiting the Woodyard everyday to see what you’re up to!! One of my very top favs on RUclips! See you soon! Andrew from NB :)
You have OTHER favorites....I am sad!! I thought I was the only one....Haaa!
Nice video. Three good reasons. Used to stack everything nicely in wood shack but now that it’s full. I resorted to your method after you convinced me it would dry anyway.
Sound like you have been busy!
I’m finally on some land and can pile my wood!👍
You’ve been an invaluable source of knowledge and inspiration. Thx
Thanks for watching!
I must say , this is one of the most entertaining and informative videos I have seen for a long long time .
Thanks Richard!
In Northern Michigan we call a
"Full Cord" a " Loggers Cord". I
Number 4. I can put more Wood in my wood shed when it's stacked in rows. You can
Leave it outside if you want to
Dig it out of the snow all winter.
Yup, in norther Michigan you do get some big snow and space is a great reason!
I did enjoy your explanation of
The measurement system. I have
A great supplier that delivers my
Wood, he is extremely honest
And always delivers quality wood.
When we first started burning
Wood in the late 80's we had
Some shady wood guys so I
Had to get educated about
Measuring wood. We burn
Anywhere from 12 to 15
" Full" chords a year. It's easy
Because it is 10 full chords to
A semi trailer or a " pup".
We try not to " touch" our
Wood too many times. 😂 Lol.
Great video Chris! Always entertaining!😂
Glad you like them! Thanks!
Bert got you to Farmer It. Wise decision.
I try to handle my wood as little as possible, too.
Nice kitties.
Yup, nice place he has!
I keep multiple utility trailers to throw my wood onto straight from the splitter to dry, then tarp them and bring them to the house as needed.
Good plan!
Love my pallet bin. Split, toss into the bin. Keep expanding it. Great concept Chris
Thanks!
Nine hundred and ninety ninth 'thumbs up'. I love stacking my wood as I like to be creative - my logs are not all uniform shape and size and it's like making a giant 3-D jigsaw. Also, on occasions I've made patterns on the visible face, using wood of different colours and textures to make pretty shapes. I stack to keep it tidy, as I don't have the space to pile it up like you do. Also, yes, the exercise is good for me - I think I'll go and do some work now and WON'T watch another of your vids now - lol. Tomorrow, I will!!
Yup, stacking is great exercise and does look nice!
I always stacked my wood until I saw your pallet bins. I built mine and they work great. Man was I dumb to stack! Thanks Chris
Glad it works for you!
Chris,another excellent piece of advice and video 👍😮😊❤
Glad you enjoyed it!
Have to stack I'm on a small narrow city lot.. 😊
Yup, small space makes a difference!
The driest wood I ever had was stored in a pile in the barn for 6yrs, for now I'm making the wife happy.....
time will do that!!! Did it mold at all??? No air flow and dark will do that!
The most important thing is that it's off the ground.
yup
G’morning Chris. I stack because of the Warden. She requires our wood to be on landscape timbers with T post ends. I remember your videos of stacking for HOURSSSS !! Great information ! Who is Rick ?
GoodNightIrene
Yup, when you sleep with the warden ya gotta behave!
“I got my mind right Boss. Please don’t hit me anymore.”
#4 bonus reason. Space savings due to small property.
Yup, good one!
well, if you are wrong Chris, i don't care, what you say sounds right to me and brightens my day. you make a lot of sense to me, thanks
Thanks Mark!
#4 Space availability. That’s my problem! I wish I could store in piles. I’m tired of stacking too! 😂 Take care Chris👍🏻👍🏻GNI
Yup, space is a thing for sure...I am lucky now to have it!
Chris, all great points. I remember way back when you would cut 1 day, split the next, and then finish on the 3rd day stacking. The test run of the first bin was shortly after you went to Bert’s if I recall correctly as well it was a suggestion from a subscriber. As a side note, my wife is in Hatfield blood line, her Great Grandma was a Hatfield. She sparked when you mentioned the Hatfield and McCoy’s. She enjoys your videos as much as I do. Good Night Irene 👍🏻👍🏻
Thanks for the info! Did she say the fight was over bark up or bark down???? HAAA!
I like stacking Firewood, looks better, but that's just my OCD...
Yes it does look nice!
Chris I hear your point about the big firewood producers that pile the wood up and sell it. I see it all the time here in Connecticut. I am selling bundles of wood now and my customers love it. they order bulk firewood from local firewood producers and their complaint is the firewood is not dry.Here in Connecticut stacking piles of firewood and expecting it to dry, I’m sorry but just doesn’t work. out there in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa ,Nebraska I can see How it would be a great way to dry firewood in the open plain.
Most of them do not dry it long enough...that is the major problem....time.
Nice video Chris. You have demonstrated lots of ways to store/dry wood. My favorite is Bert’s little corn crib just because it looks cool and practical. Old Country architecture. GNI
If I was to build another wood shed. It would be built like the corn crib.
Yup, it is very cool!
I stack bark up. When the wood is drying the wood separates from the bark, one sure sign it’s ready to burn. I then chuck the bark into the woods and bugs have nowhere to hide. Less bark, less ash. All my bagged wood I sell is bark free if possible. Just my observation.
Nice!
I used to think that stacking it tight was the best but I have learned from your vids Chris, that it is not necessarily the case. Thanks and Cheers!
Air flow, sun and time. Thanks Gord!
All good points Chris, unfortunately for my small Woodyard I will continue to stack.
Yup, space is an issue!
I stack mine because of limited space in my yard,one day I'll steal your patented bin method lol,hope you are having an awesome day young man pun intended
Thanks John!
I love your dedication to making videos, you stacked a cord and a third just to make a video.
Thanks...yes I did!
Certainly glad you don't confuse us by selling by the cubic meter.
Yup, me too!
Old habits die hard, stacking firewood or making videos???!!!! Enjoy your videos, thanks!!!!
Thanks!
Great advice thankyou
Thanks for watching!
Hi Chris, here in Ireland we use firewood and peat turf to heat the house
Awesome...that is amazing!
I'm trying the wood bins this year!! At first I thought I was missing a step, I was, it's called stacking!! Stay Hydrated and Have a Safe Day
Ha!
Great stuff here!! Correct - less you touch more you make
Thanks...yup!
Following your example with the big piles, I made two piles for myself one is mixed hardwood and the other one is red Oak. I started these piles this past December to my surprise even the red Oak is dry already.
Yup! It can breath!
I am a stacker! Reason! Space, Space, Space
Yup!
You are f&@#ing hilarious!
Thanks for watching! More fun and games to come.
I need to stack for space, but it also looks very nice.
If I had the space I wood just dump it in a pile and have a bit stacked for the view 😁
Yup, space and it does look great!
How much wood do you think you have in the yard now and how much do you sell annually?
Over 200 full cords maybe 230???? I sell about 200 full cords + -
Good morning Chris!!😀😀
Thanks Sir Al!
I mainly stack because I have to use other people's property, but I do the bins when possible. GNI
Stacking looks nice!
A "cord" of wood is a legal term. If you sell a cord of wood, it is a legally specific amount of wood. A face cord or anything else is whatever you want it to be.
In some states yes but here in the mid-west we all use face cords and know it is 1/3 of a cord.
Reason #4: to scandalize those who obsess over touches, or who are allergic to any kind of physical effort.
Yup...good ones!
You’re right about the standing dead/barkless.
My experience has been that dead standing oak dries much faster than live oak. No idea why, but it does for me in my woodyard. Can burn such wood within a few months versus a year for live oak.
THANKS!
Im working on getting enough palletts to make my own bin. Im always a year ahead on my wood so my plan is to have this winter and next in my woodshed near my house and then everything else will be put in the bin by my processing area until time to move to the shed. Just trying to figure out a size right now. I dont want so much wood in the bin that I never reach the bottom stuff. Any tips on size? 3x3, 4x4 palletts etc on how much it would hold?
It depends on how much wood you will put in it ...but you could just go 2 wide by say 5-6 long and add on as you need to???
I burn 4-5 full cord a season so that would be about the size. A bit more as backup would probably be good
You should make a video where you dig out wood from the core of the pile and show it, and compare it to the wood on top
Yeah I’ve piled wood for years and the stuff on the bottom and middle doesn’t really dry and gets moldy with fungus, but I’m in the woods with little sun.
@@JoesFirewoodVideos that's my experience as well. I think there's a lot of factors that go into it that aren't being discussed. I think if you start your bin with green wood, that's the wet wood that sits in the core of the pile. If you start your bin with dry dead standing logs, you'll have a different outcome. Also, a massive open field like Chris has helps as well
@@Dorchwoods also depends on what type of soil you are piling on. I dump off a conveyor onto the ground. I have pretty gravelly ground but I also leave the bark on the ground each year. I sell the good splits and anything that has dirt or other crap on it just goes into my OWB. My cones are about 20' high and 30' diameter. My yard is on a bit of a hill and we have lots of wind and no trees nearby. I used to dump onto skids but it just made a mess due to the weight of a 20' cone.
I did a couple times over the past years...it dries great. BUT if your wood is on the ground and in the shade with no air flow....it will not dry and it will be moldy.
yup
Stacking isn't too bad. In my part of the Adirondacks, there isn't much "flat land" to just build bins, although that would be better. I use totes (loose and stacked), but stacking is what we do mostly. I kind of use it to de-stress in the evenings from my regular job. I've just started making more RUclips videos and have an appreciation for your editing!
Yup, it is great exercise and it looks great! Thanks!
Dude, if i had the space, sun and wind you have, I would 100% make mountains of wood. Unfortunately the wifey would kill me if i did that in our front yard😂😂. Maybe if you talk her into it, she'll let me
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Stacking looks great, you get a lot of exercise and it saves space! Trust me on this one...until you get more space or another wood yard do what she want...she is the boss! I have 39 years experience in keeping my wife happy.....I mostly fail.
If your brother stacks wood because customers come and pick up their wood from his wood yard, how are they picking up the wood? Are they chucking all their wood in trucks? Are they in IBC totes and they take the totes with them? Are they on pallets that are enclosed and tractor lifted into the customer's truck?
Hand loading onto trailers mostly.
I've got a question for you, I have a stack of about 7 cords mostly oak in logs and they have been sitting there over a year. Once I cut and split it how long should it dry?
Oak dries very slow and in log form even slower...get it cut split and off the ground and the thinner you split it the faster it will dry....about 1-2 years depending on the thickness of the splits.Get a moisture meter and test it every couple months and once it is below 20% on the INSIDE ( split a piece) ...it will be ready.
@@InTheWoodyard thanks
Burt’s totes stored in the barn…do they take much longer to dry in the dark?
Yes... we discovered not good. No sun no air flow.
I'm currently stacking my wood at the moment. I don't own a tractor or I would use the totes to move it but I'm thinking of buying a trailer to just throw it on once it's split and then move next to our house during the winter.
Good idea!
Chris, how much firewood does the warden allow to be stored at your place? I'm only allowed one full cord per DNR regulations. But in the woodyard, can have as much as I have room to stack wood.
I only keep a face cord or two at home...but i have had as much as 12 at one time before my business and the farm. Now I just bring more home when I need it. Space is an issue!
Who are the wardens you guys refer to? Local council officials that police what you can do on your property or are you all renting from housing associations??
@@gp4103 is a joke we say here to call our partner, so we refer to them as "the warden" from time to time. A slang reference to the warden of a prison.
Chris, just curious, I know in several videos you've mentioned that leaving the wood loose inside your very large bins, even through several seasons (including winter), has no effect on the wood and the wood is fine, but I'm curious to know if that is the case because your turn around time to sell wood is short? Perhaps like a year? But what if you didn't sell any wood for a few years how would that wood fair under the elements for extended periods of time?
I sell it all in 1-2 years. If I did not ..once it was dry ...I would cover it.
Only stack at customer. I stack some here and absolutely hate doing it.
Over 50% of newbies who call me and say they want a cord they actually mean a face cord.
If both parties are happy that’s all that matters! AMEN! 🙏
yup!
In my part of the world a face cord is a "pickup load".
Yup, a 6 1/2' box loose full is that!
I stack in rows as close to the OWB so I can plow snow right up to the row I'm burning. Haystacks grow fungus and strange mold just a couple feet down so that's a climate thing. I burn totes first before the ground is buried in snow as they freeze to the ground and plowing enough space for empty ones is a lot of added work. But, all the wood I sell, no stacking. I can't think of a better way for my own OWB other than get rid of it!
Yup, frozen down totes is something most do not think of pallets under them helps ...but then they freeze down too!!
The reason i stack my wood? - my yard is full of termites, I stack my wood in a single row on top of a sheet of corrugated iron, that gives me a clear boundary of at least 15cm of steel sheet visible around the edge of the stack so i can see if the toothy mongrels are getting in to my wood pile!
Good reason! We do not have them here...-20 -30 for months below zero keeps them away.
I celebrated Independence Day by throwing a cord party and none of that metric crap.
ha!!! good one!
Cacthing up on your videos,while my back heals, I tried ibc totes, they're a royal PIA. Now i store firewood in a high tunnel with open ends that dries it out quick
Hope you heal up fast! You have wood to make!
Chris, how do you keep the pallets up on the outside?
Wire...it is on the video and lots of others on the channel too.
Ok. Thank you. I'll go back and watch again.
Yeah, boss lady “request”(kindly ordered me) that I stack along the fence to block the sight of my neighbor’s yard. Trial and error taught me to stack two long rows with space between and it really helps with drying. It’s hilarious that you are constantly explaining yourself so just tell them….”YOU DO YOU” which has an alternate meaning I can’t say here, 🤣.
No but I I hi I hi hi hi hi hi hi hi😅😊
I constantly explain myself because people do not watch the whole video but mostly because there are always new people watching and with almost 60,000 subscribers and another 100,000 unsubscribed viewers ...it is a lot of people to help.
Thank you
You're welcome!
I have been doing both stacks and piles for decades...
In my woodyard it depends on type of wood and how green it is during processing that determines if it gets stacked or piled.
I am currently only short about $875,000 of not having to ever touch my wood.
Save your pennies! You are close!
@InTheWoodyard We are going to need much colder winters than the last couple have been to ever reach this goal!🥶
Good Morning Woodhounds!!
Morning!
Below regarding Full Cord and Half Cord as you quoted regarding 24 inch longs vs 16 inch logs
Both full Cords
24 wide isn’t half Cord😊
If it is 24" x 4'x8' ...yes it is. Do some math.
@@InTheWoodyard 2x24 rows x 4 high and 8 long = Cord 1 row 24 x 4x8 is a half cord😅
Chris were all in the same boat this year when it rains every day or other day. Know bring on the heat and cook the water out of the wood . 🪵
Yup...wind sun and time!
You asked for it: you are wrong. I’m not sure why. You make a lot of sense!
Ha!! Okay!
Hi Chris yes stack is better have a good day nice video ( Ty Ron
Thanks for watching!
Youre right pile it up!
Thanks!
Good video Chris. But correct me if im wrong, if that company that sent you the pallet forks sent you rotating pallet forks im betting you would switch to IBC totes as Bert must get them cheap. Lol! What's your answer on that? Lol!
No they are NOT articulating forks. I would need 800 IBC totes...Bert sells them for $40 each that equals $32,00 just for totes....no thanks.
I stack for the room but have done the same as you Chris and found no difference.
Yup, stacking saves space and looks great!
Good video next time you deliver a full cord can you measure how many cubic meters it is.
Nope. It will be about 3 3/4 cubic meters. One cubic meter is 80% of a face cord/1/3 cord.
@InTheWoodyard 128ft is 3.62m3 but stacked no one sells stacked m3 what is it if it is loose I say abut 5.5m3
Firewood warms ya up several times........
Yup!
Good Lord Bert's got wood for years it looks like, even for a boiler user who uses more than the average person. Face cord equals 1.208 cubic meters.
Yup and yup!
Kris, I stack my firewood because I have limited space 6 to 7 cords only
Yup, good reason!
I think Irene is now confused. Happy wife , stack your wood. Smart man, pile it👍👍👍
You got that right!
Stacking is good to get moving and light lifting. Why pay a gym membership as an old man?
Yup, exercise is a good reason!
You pile that wood in pallets works great. I still stack. I don’t have much wood for burning.
Yup, I stack it at home for burning too.
I need to stack for room. I tried loose but no way i can fit 15 full cords piled up.
Yup, stacking saves space.... nicer looking too!
I think Burt has enough wood for even his great grandchildren to feed the boiler...
Ha! Maybe so!
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Thanks!
Bark up, outside sheds rain water, bark down inside. lets mosture out better. Bark falls off usually after 6 months
Thanks for the info!
@@InTheWoodyard learned that on my first stacking job as a youngster making a dollar above minimum and a home cooked lunch when we would work in the "wood yard"..😏
Stacking for space, look, and sizing ... plop down in the middle of a south jersey neighborhood !!!
Yup, makes sense!
In the summer stack the split side up, and in the winter turn them over to bark side up for water to shed off. Just kidding!!!!!
That is what I had wrong, I will redo it all now! Thanks!!
I know some old Finlanders that pile their split wood that looks like a fat teepee to a flat peak top up to 8 to 10 feet. It dries from top to boottom within 5 to 6 months. Open area so wind can ooze through it. Just saying one way to try it. Sure you've seen them...maybe not. 8 outta 10 Professor.
yup, they are called a holz hausen
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Thanks!!!
YAP you are right, '' THE Government should stay out of that '' and alot of every thing else too
yup.
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Thanks!
Wood dries in a pile! Full stop!!
yup!
I gess everyone been doing it wrong for hundreds of years, Chris every body don’t have open fields for wind, and not stacking wood it’s starting to show Chris, let it go, let it go! Lol
I have thousands of new people asking how and why about a lot of topics every month so i re-discuss once in a while and will continue to do so to help them. There is no wrong, there is only what is best for you and works.
Good morning everyone
Hello an good morning Sir Stanley!