Wood stack, full height - 360-degree photo sphere

After a nice afternoon splitting wood (yes, this is my idea of a good time exercising 🙂), my main wood stack has grown to a height that I deem barely safe. It’s 6 times as high as it is wide now, and it’s getting quite wobbly.

I’ve run out of space to stack wood the conventional way. But I have so much wood left to split that I really want to try building a Norwegian wood stack next:

Norwegian wood stack

  • TheSealStartedIt@feddit.org
    4·
    13 days ago

    Hey, really cool wood stack you built there. I have a question, though — I’m a complete beginner when it comes to stacking firewood. I tried stacking mine without side walls as well, and during the night the whole thing collapsed.

    I noticed that on the left and right sides of your stack, you alternated the logs lengthwise and crosswise. Is that actually stable enough to hold everything in place safely? How exactly does that technique work? Or am I just not seeing some kind of hidden support or walls?

    • ExtremeDullard@piefed.socialOPEnglish
      5·
      13 days ago

      The end stacks are self-standing “boxes”, made by stacking logs in a criss-crossing pattern as horizontally, and as regularly as possible by choosing the right logs (and yes, I didn’t do a very good job at that myself 🙂 But they’re good enough)

      The end stacks prevent the logs stacked in-between them from rolling off and starting a collapse. The middle logs don’t really put any side pressure on the end stacks, but if any of them starts going, the whole stack goes - as you discovered. The end stacks simply prevent the collapse from starting.

      • Rumo161@feddit.org
        3·
        13 days ago

        Why dont you use a criss-cross pattern through the hole stack? Wouldnt you be able to stack even higher and wouldnt the ventilation through the stack be better? Thats how i learned to stack wood but im happy to relearn ☺️

        • ExtremeDullard@piefed.socialOPEnglish
          3·
          13 days ago

          Because finding logs with the right length and girth that create criss-crossing “planes” that stay flat and contact the plane underneath as flat and wide as possible, so the resulting tower isn’t wobbly and “grows” straight, is a pain in the butt. It’s annoying enough that I often take the time to shape the logs with a hatchet so they lay flat and stable.