Vertically stacked rings

[openspaceman]

1 hour ago, Steven P said:

Space: If you split them all now you might be able to use them next winter (depending on species, location, and 100 other things). If you stack them and split them later in the year, maybe after using this seasons fuel they maybe won't be ready till the winter after... you will still need a stack of logs for next winter... or 2 stacks instead of 1.

 

Processing your own firewood is a balancing act between cost (cheapest to do your own) against the time it takes, drying space, equipment needed, and so on

That's right and the reason I now have 3 vertical dividers in my logshed, so I can start refilling as I use the first bay.

 

I never keep wood for two summer seasons as all species dry enough in one if split.

[openspaceman]

4 minutes ago, neiln said:

A neat and tight stack of splits will definitely take up less space than the unsplit rings. No doubt at all in my mind.

Aha a challenge

[Peasgood]

I've been splitting stacked rings this week, they are not mouldy and are bone dry. My splitter hasn't struggled either.

[Steven P]

15 hours ago, openspaceman said:

That's right and the reason I now have 3 vertical dividers in my logshed, so I can start refilling as I use the first bay.

 

Similarly - 2 stacks on the drive at the end of the summer (this year, next year), and move 'this year' under cover in September / October

[neiln]

Bugger that!  I handle wood too much anyway, I'm not moving stacks around as well.  

[JT19]

You need a system to get a year ahead.

I have 4 pallet crates that paving slabs come in. I put next season's wood in them split and stacked. Covered top with sheet of ply to keep worst of rain off. Leaving the sides open. Once dry enough they'll go on the pallet in the garage. This year's dry/ready to burn wood is on a pallet stacked up in the garage.

I've then got two log stores which are full of seasoned wood. One at front of house and one out back. The one out the front gets topped up from the garage. The one out the back will be emptied first then filled up with anymore green wood I collect and left to dry. Luckily I enjoy collecting, chopping and stacking wood 🪓👍🤣

So personally I'd get it chopped and stacked asap. 

[openspaceman]

On 18/11/2022 at 20:32, openspaceman said:

Aha a challenge

 

On 18/11/2022 at 20:32, openspaceman said:

On 18/11/2022 at 20:28, neiln said:

A neat and tight stack of splits will definitely take up less space than the unsplit rings. No doubt at all in my mind.

Aha a challenge

I had a try today and the result was closer than I expected, so probably not significant. I took a before picture and somehow deleted it but here is the after with the one piece (bottom left) left over that did not fit the frame where they all had prior to splitting.

 

Edited November 26, 2022 by openspaceman
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[Stere]

A Larger box would favour the rounds taking less space as less large edge gaps

 

 

[neiln]

Slightly different though to several cube of large rings stacked and awaiting splitting.  Each case is different, logs are never uniform, the longer and larger a piece of wood the more apparent the divergence and that causes gaps. My experience is always that stacks get quite a lot smaller once the wood is cut and split.

[Steven P]

Rings will never fit in exactly to the space available, there will always be some space I think. Split logs can fill the available space better - imagine if the space available is to the 9th blue line in the image above to see some left over space.

 

For me I'd go split logs - able to stack then 5' or 6' high - not sure I'd want to manhandle rings that high, up and down too often