[OT ish] Log stacking

[Dave Liquorice]

Cut and split logs for a wood burner. Would you stack them bark up or bark down?

[Howard Neil]

My logs are silent. ;-)

[Tim Lamb]

In message , Dave Liquorice writes

Are you short of things to do?

Mine are stacked under cover, a mix of split/round and random.

Ideally you need to maximise air contact and minimise rain penetration.

BTW are there any semi-derelict farmsteads near you?

My daughter is working with a film crew, Liverpool, Sheffield and Manchester, and needs to find a location where a group of trainees can

*run across a sloping hillside and attack some derelict farm buildings*.

The really tricky bit is road access for their artic. trailer units:-(

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[Percy]

On Fri, 22 Feb 2013, "Dave Liquorice" writ:

I'd just stop reading the Daily Mail :o)

[geraldthehamster]

I just chuck mine into the back of the woodshed and they stack themselves. Pallets on the shed floor ensure air circulates beneath them.

Cheers Richard

[Mike Barnes]

Dave Liquorice :

Yes. That's definitely better than stacking them on end.

[Huge]

Bark up.

[David]

I would ask the Norwegians.

[Chris Hogg]

Your chance to experiment. One half bark up, the other half, bark down, and see what the difference is in a few weeks.

[Dave Liquorice]

They couldn't agree...

[Nick Odell]

All that the log inspections are concerned about is that the wood has come from a sustainable source and provided that each stick of yours has the DEFRA logo printed - Blackpool Rock-stylee - right through the middle, they shouldn't cause you any trouble at all. Up or down is irrelevant: these days it's illegal to discriminate on grounds of orientation[1]

Nick [1]Or is that just people? I can never remember.

[Jules Richardson]

Bark down for the bottom layer, bark up for the top, don't care for the stuff inbetween.

[tim.....]

Just make sure that you make the split vertically, not horizontally :-)

tim

[The Natural Philosopher]

makes little difference. Under shelter and off the ground is all that matters.

[harry]

Hardly matters. They need to be in a well ventilated place sheltered from rain etc. You need a source of cheap wood. I pile mine on pallets to let air get underneath. The stacks don't want to be huge or the middle ones don't dry out. Also you need to be able to use them in rotation. You need a lot more than you think if it is your only source of heat.

[The Medway Handyman]

OK. Woof! Woof!

[charles]

surely "foow!, foow!" ?

[polygonum]

Or, rather "¡?ooM, ¡?ooM"?

[Another John]

What a *strange* question for you, DL, to be asking! I always thought that you were right at the Ray Mears end of the spectrum in this group!

BTW - my own answer has been replicated several times already: dunt matter, IMO, as long as they're dry, and well ventilated. And off the ground. This last year I constructed a fab log store out of pallets, on the side of our garage, where the wind whistles up, or down, no matter what the weather. I've just stacked half a ton of greenish beech in it: it's all pretty tight, unfortunately, but I'm hoping the wind tunnel effect will overcome that.

John

[Dave Liquorice]

No comment. The story about the Norwegian TV show about a log fire and the fact that the Norwegians couldn't agree on bark up or bark down. It tweaked my curiosity.

Rain isn't much of a problem in the car port. The blasted snow on the other hand is:

Gets in *every* where, then melts...

I've stack on old tree stakes with the bark facing out at the end of the stack and up (ish) in the body of the stack so that the melt waters run down the bark and onto the bark of the log below and so on rather than onto the split faces where it may (will) soak into the grain.

Seems that most that expressed an opinion here have gone for "up" or "doesn't matter".

There probably are but I can't think of any that are more than a small stone barn off the top of my head. Generally speaking anything that has been abandoned was abandoned a long time ago and the buildings are just the stone walls, no roof, floors, window frames etc...