Good afternoon, my reader. If you still do not want to chase fashion trends, but use an ordinary stove in the old fashioned way, then there will definitely be a woodpile near your house. And to an inexperienced person it may seem that stacking firewood in several rows is quite a trifling matter. He threw them on top of each other, they say, and you're done. However, everything is not so simple as it seems at first glance. After all, insidious firewoods strive to crumble in different directions at every opportunity.
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Therefore, I will tell you today what mistakes are usually made when storing firewood and how to build the correct woodpiles from them.
Causes of firewood falling out of the woodpile
There are two reasons for the unstable position of the woodpiles:
- Folded on uneven ground.
- Incorrectly folded.
Although here it should be noted that the essence of both reasons lies in only one point - the firewood is uneven (under a bias) that can play a pretty cruel joke with such a woodpile, and in the end it just fall apart.
Proceeding from this, the woodpile must always be folded on a very even base, and so that it (at least on one side) rested against some wall.
You can build it, for example, at a home extension, which will become an excellent support for folded firewood. Although in this case, it is also necessary to make a canopy over the woodpile in order to additionally protect it from excessive moisture from the roof of the extension.
How to fold the woodpile correctly?
Consider the best option for storing woodpile, in which it is erected near a wall. In this case, it is necessary to fold the logs strictly perpendicular to the surface of such a support. And if you adhere to this rule from beginning to end, then you simply will not have problems with the loss of firewood. For belaying, you can also alternate perpendicular rows with rows of single poles folded longitudinally.
It should be emphasized here that when storing firewood against the wall, you need to carefully monitor so that the slope of the woodpile is not directed in your direction. And in order for it to be slightly tilted to the wall, it is necessary to put 2 longitudinal logs on the same level on the transverse rows of stacked firewood. And the longitudinal log that lies closer to you must necessarily be slightly thicker than a similar log that you put closer to the wall.
Well, if you are too lazy to determine the thickness of each log by eye, then you can simply use instead of thickening pads, some slats, perches or boards. This method of independent direction of the slope can also be used in cases where the woodpile suddenly moves by itself, and several of its rows begin to lie with the wrong slope. Here you don't even have to get anything out of it.
Just place a few new logs across between the tilted rows.
I hope that these tips will be useful to you and will help you eventually put a fairly reliable woodpile near your own home.
Do you know how to fold a stable woodpile?
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