#322 The SECRET to keeping your FIREWOOD STACKS STANDING!

In todays video we share tips and tricks to help keep your Firewood Stacks standing. We focus on the ends of you stacks and how to do it right the first time.

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[williegardner]

My wife is like why are you watching someone stack wood? You mess with tractors, build stuff and cut wood all day, and you come in and watch this. I said to see if there is something I missed or a better way to do it, plus I like it better than most of the junk on TV now.

[thomasshea]

Super helpful. Thank you from a newbie.

[pennylane]

Hello from Tasmania, Australia - many thanks for this video, my next thing on my wish list is a wood Splitter! Wood pile, here I come.

[thomasbrighton]

I really appreciate the tip on the key to your great stacks. Also very wise to be thankful for your wife! I learn something with every video and am inspired by your approach to life. You all are great! Thank s for taking the time and energy to share!

[gipper]

Mike. You are the Bob Ross of wood stacking!!!

[rmhamilton]

So nice to know there is someone else that takes pride in stacking wood! I will interlock pieces from the tier with the ends as well. My first year for burning cherry and it's great wood.

[simonleeks]

A well stacked wood pile (to me) Art! Like a well organised workshop.

[Davidraisedsimmentalcows.]

Really a great way to stack firewood, Thank you for the information. Very helpful.

[jedgar]

Hello
I did not read any other replies - there are a lot of them - but I have some observations and suggestions to add to your wood stacking. I might be repeating someone else's reply ( as I said, I did not read any of them ) and I apologize if that is so, but maybe someone else will read this one while missing a similar one down in the many.
Anyway, I have learned you techniques / tricks by DOING and some trial and error, but also with some thinking and what might be common sense.
I too can stack wood with the criss cross method on the ends ( you did not show building the 'other' criss crossed end ) and using the heavier, squarish logs on the bottom is good. If those larger logs happen to be a little too big for a stove, they can always be split again when the stack gets used up.
Covering the top of a stack of firewood should always be a thought. Anything to shed water and avoid the water working it's way down through the stack seems just good sense in trying to dry the wood and keep it dry for use.
But, here is my biggest grip or concern. Whether the stack is covered on top or not, rain can blow in. I think mother nature had it right, by putting the bark on the outside of the tree, it protects the inside of the tree. In the case of firewood, and getting and keeping it dry, I stack my firewood with the bard side up. That way, any water that gets to the upper side of the chunk of wood, will tend to either shed off, or 'try' to soak into the bark, but maybe not to the real wood itself. Then, when rain stops, the bark will dry back out. Meanwhile, it's like the piece of firewood had it's own tarp.
I saw you piling some quartered logs with the bark side down, and with 2 together, it created a 'nest' for the next piece to nestle into with it's bark side up. That was fine, that they nestled together, but you can do the same thing with the bark side up on all the pieces.
Now, if there are pieces that get split, with no bark on it, or very little ( that happens for me a lot as I tend to split down to smaller pieces for my wood stove ) then those pieces will dry / cure faster due to less protective bark = more exposed wood, the faster the moisture can get out. But that means it will take in rain water since it has no protective bark. Those pieces can be 'hidden' in the middle of the stack, stacked separately because they will be ready to burn sooner, or protected in some other appropriate way.
It might seem like a fine point to some, to worry about putting the bark side up, but hey, you are there, you are doing it, can it really be that much tougher to do ?
As far as leaning those criss crossed stacks on the end(s) inwards a little - because the weight of the middle of the stack will press against it - when I stack wood up to those end stacks, I do it such a way that they mostly self-support themselves at that point, with minimal 'sloppy' stacking that causes unnecessary weight to lean on those end stacks.
I bet there could be some rebuttal on this. :-)

[MaureenBelieves]

You sir, are an artist! Great info, thanks! God Bless!

[johnsuch]

Thank you so much for all you insight...My wife and I love your videos and always are learning....Sure wish we had the goodies y’all get to use...It sure makes things much easier for sure...God Bless and be safe out there

[xpoolguy]

Bought a 100 acre bush property last February so am on a steep learning curve re bush lot management, firewood and all related. Put away a bush cord of cherry last March as part of my supply and just starting to burn it this month. Amazed how dry it is and really like the burn too. Have already located 4 dead standing that will be destined for the wood shed next week. Keep up the great videos. Thanks

[klehman]

Thanks for the vid! I was using cement blocks, 2x4s, etc. to try to keep the wood off the ground. (What we had on hand but it's not foolproof. (Raccoons used it as a jungle gym knocking half of it over.) We've had severe winds over the last few years along with pest invasions and the resulting amount of fallen wood is mind boggling. I wasn't sure what to do with all of it but your method is the cheapest easiest way I've seen to deal with it all. Thank you so much!

[deanbarr]

Good to see you back Mike. Melissa has done very well in your absence and your right she's definitely a keeper. We enjoy you both. Take care my friends.

[roxiew]

Never seen such perfect pieces of wood.

[lauratempestini]

Sounds like you have a good help meet!!❤️

[heathenfirewoodservice]

Yeah it does take a bit of fitting the end logs a bit to make it stand. I have a wood stacked that stayed up all winter log through several crazy high wind storms too! A guy down the road was not so lucky. He only square stacked the ends instead of putting a few more. It’s at least a 20 plus long run of wood too! Very true with the stacking method.

[edwardkenny]

The art of firewood stacking. So, there's a reason to your madness!
Thanks, Mike .

[NHHalKnowsHow]

Good Job, Mike! Great video as you never know at what level your viewers are in their firewood harvesting career. I have always done like you and split the large ones so as to make firewood "boards" with flat sides opposite each other. Then once you start to fill in that is where you can put the round limb wood or other odd shaped pieces. Thank you for the information! My grandfather used to stack the ends with an ax in hand and shave high spots down so there were no rocking in each piece. He obviously had more time than I do. Also it's easy to see that you do appreciate Melissa. Happy wife, happy life, but I don't have to tell you that.

[davidjack]

Very good piece of information! Liked it a lot and more importantly I learned something usefull