Does anyone have a good plan for a large size firewood storage? It has to look like it fits the landscape are my husband will have a fit. I built a small one (hold about a cord) that he kind of likes, has a cedar roof, but now I need a large one. We had to cut down about 20 oaks when we started to build and I need to get it chopped and stacked for winter. Have to have something that will keep the rain off.
Haven't got to our Oregon property yet. Hope to if fuel prices ever come down. Want to start building there. Will go with the 1 1/2 story that I already have plans for.
Thanks. :-\
My firewood plan...
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Sorry, I know that is not what you want, but I couldn't resist. That's 15" lengths, double, triple and four wide. That's the big pile, there are several smaller ones scattered about. Mostly we are dry so I haven't worried about rain at all, yet. Once it sits a year it's dry and very burnable and easy to split. We do have some under plastic for a couple reasons. [1] to keep some of the nicely cured/dried stuff dry. [2] to kill bark beetles/larvae.
Eventually we may build a shelter that is a roof and a wall or two. It would be finished like the cabin will be, metal roof and whatever is finally decided for the walls. .
I just stack mine outside the home. This is a 2 year supply to heat my home, a little over 6 cord of Fir/Tamerac mix. Mark
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Yikes, you dry landers really have it made. If we stacked the wood like that here, it would be mush in a year or so....or a mushroom factory, or both.
Out here many build a pole shed, 6 or 8' tall, 2 foot eaves and one wall on the west side, and a pressure treated "floor" similar to pallets. Some folks have a long row of these with their "backs" to the wind.
Then there is the little stack on the covered porch...the pile by the stove...
Most here are like that described by Considerations. Pole shed w/shed roof. There are even some that stack it tee-pee or wig-wam style in the open. Claims it dries easier and sheds water better than on the horizontal. Several I have seen are probably 20-30' in diam at the bottom with a heigth as far as they can stack.
Personally I have one covered sorage area and the other are ricked and tin roof tied on.
Mine's in a hole in the side of the mountain with a garden on the roof. [crz]
I've been kicking around a combination wood storage/battery & electronics storage building. (My current plan is for a self-sufficient single room cabin and I'd rather not have the batteries inside.) It would be similar to the pole building Considerations describes, but instead of simply a back wall, the back half would be a battery storage compartment and elctronics mounting area.
-- Pritch