Follow-up on this post: I cleared a spot of land at the side of the house where the wood stack won’t block the view, and i put a few concrete slabs to isolate the wood from the ground.
I’ll let the slabs settle into the ground for a few days before starting to load it up some more with the first layers of wood. The ground is soft here, and my experience is that it will compress and shift for quite some time before settling down.
Make sure pieces of wood keep sloping down towards the outside by places any thicker side on the inside , and keep walls vertical. This will not be enough , eventually you’ll need a row in the other direction to kept them angled correctly.
Only the outside row is nice , use straight pieces for that , the rest can just be tossed in the middle.
I’ll do what I can: there isn’t a single slice of trunk that isn’t full of knots in my pile of wood. It’s a real bitch to split with a maul: each one takes me over 10 minutes, and when I’m done, it’s usually all crooked everywhere. So much so that I usually rework them with a hatchet when I’m running out of straight bits.
I don’t know what it was with those trees… Perhaps it’s because they were really old.
Yeah that’s why you toss all the real wonky pieces not suitable for stacking in the mjddle