Holzhausen

[spandit]

I'm spoilt for firewood but have been running out of places to stack the split logs so they tend to lie in untidy heaps in the grass getting wet and covered in slugs until I can find somewhere to put them. Decided to build a Holzhausen instead and was going to do it near to the piles of unprocessed arb waste (that members here have very kindly given me) but my wife suggested we build it close to the house.

 

Marked out a circle with logs:

 

 

After a lot of to-ing and fro-ing with wheelbarrows I ended up with this:

 

 

and finally this:

 

 

I've now run out of split logs but the floor on my other log store is now clear and the backlog pile is shrinking. At least now we can hire in a splitter and get a load done and split whilst the weather is warm. The middle needs to be filled with logs and it will eventually be about twice that height at least. Dog can't nick them now either (he tends to pick them up and drop them in the long grass ready for discovery by the mower )

[richardwale]

Looks great. I've always wanted to build one but never seem to find the time

[spandit]

Thinking now before I get to far of clearing the heaped logs from the middle and putting a pallet inside. I can then build a smaller one or just a stack on the pallet with the odd beam to the main outer shell to give it strength. Should give more air inside

[Stubby]

Thinking now before I get to far of clearing the heaped logs from the middle and putting a pallet inside. I can then build a smaller one or just a stack on the pallet with the odd beam to the main outer shell to give it strength. Should give more air inside

 

You have too much free time on your hands

[spandit]

You have too much free time on your hands

 

Sadly not but I do have a lot of logs to move and if one had someone helping to bring barrows of logs, stacking them doesn't actually take a huge amount of time

[Stubby]

Sadly not but I do have a lot of logs to move and if one had someone helping to bring barrows of logs, stacking them doesn't actually take a huge amount of time

 

I understand . When I have processed mine I try and bribe my son ( 6 ft 3 and muscles in his spit ) to help me with the stacking . When he does its magic . When he is not around its torture !

[Darrin Turnbull]

Looking good , and here's how to test if it's dry enough.

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Just something I've found , not from me. Sorry it's in German.

[neiln]

clever trick but its easier to just clang to splits together. If they sound like skittles/bowling pins then they are dry

[spandit]

A lot of it is dry leylandii bur there's a lot of sycamore, plane and oak going in there some of which is still green. Will be a nice mix when we come to burn it in a few years.

 

Moving the logs in the centre onto a pallet didn't take long and I've put a piece of old chestnut fencing across to tie the outer skin to the centre a bit. Should get plenty of air even inside as it's only one layer thick. Looks cool anyway