Wood Heat Thread ~ post pics

After a couple of years...
This wood stand has held up well, and works great. It's from Tractor Supply.

Thanks for the tip I got here.

 

Spring cutting has begun.

 

Ahh yes. I think I'll be waiting another month or so before I start but it's been on my mind. I've got a pile of downed trees waiting to be bucked up.

 

My neighbor just had some dead ash trees taken down. She said the trunks were worth nothing to the cutters, even though they have the equipment to haul them. Apparently firewood can't be given away around here just now due to the number of trees killed by the emerald ash borer.

 

I need to get it stacked sooner than later to move on to other projects. Just takes so much time so a few hours at a time. Luckily I have half a season already curing from last spring.

 

Finished up my new wood rack setup yestreday. I had the rack completed a couple weekends ago, but not the roof.

I gave it about a foot of overhang, but may still need to hang a tarp or something. It's on the North side of the garage and most of our wind/rain comes form SE, so I'm going to first try leaving it open. Winter it might get snow on it, but we'll see.

The black slats under the tin are 1" x 2" wood painted with exterior paint. Rack is 12' x 20" and the roof is 36" depth and 6' off the sidewalk.

 

One week later:



That's about 50% of what I need for garage heat during an average Winter. That's Elm. I have some Cherry and a little Oak left over from this past Winter.

I use diesel/kerosene for initial warming during <20 degree days. Large wood stove with homemade blower system. 2000sqft. I heat it to 60 degrees about 3-4 days a week on average.

Still need to seal my rubber strips to the wall above the roof. Vowed to get all my wood racked before hot weather this year. Plenty of time to cure.

 

Cut the rest of my wood, got tired of splitting so needed to use different muscles. Now back to splitting over the next few weekends.

 

Close by a road...ever get pilfering of your cut and split stuff?

 

not yet, there is also a large clearing across the street a landscape company has used for 2 years for their wood, also haven't seen any issues with their piles either.

 

You dont like your window?

 

Stacking has begun. This will take a few weekends.

 

This last weekend I finally got around to building a wood shed. It was one of those classic "draw some plans on a napkin" kind of builds. I more or less designed it in my head, put together a lumber order, and got to work. It isn't perfect, but it'll get the job done. Took me two days working solo to complete it.

 

If you fill the shed front to back with space between the stacks you'll get great drying.

 

looks good, kind of how mind started on a napkin. any reason for the "doorway" in the front? to me it seems to create tight access to both back corners and sides.

 

Everything I’ve split has been stacked although not all in this photo. On to other spring projects.

 

I like your technique for keeping the end of your stack from being a problem. I'm gonna steal that!

 

I find it the worst part of stacking. Finding pieces of the same thickness and keeping it level.

 

No real reason for the opening in the middle there. Originally I was going to keep the entire front open but then I realized I had over ordered the cedar 5/4x4 so I just closed in both sides.

 

Got some free oak tree was down in MIL neighbors yard