Eric 🇨🇦Busy day for me… so far. Finished splitting and stacking the winter firewood, made raspberry jam, baked bread and hung the garlic in the barn. #garden #gardening #baking #farmlife
Rachelle S@strayhorse I love seeing what people are doing on the opposite seasonal time to me. I love your woodstacking! What’s the technique with the cross hatched stack to the left of the woodpile? Is that sort of like a column to add strength/retain?
@chellebree Hi! Yes, the cross hatch thing provides a bit of strength and closure on the end of the woodpile so that the wood can be stacked quite high on the end. Getting firewood ready for next winter. The wood from these trees were dead Douglas Fir and Arbutus, so it’s nice to not have to cut any living trees for firewood. Usually have a few windfalls every year after big winter wind storms that I cut, split and stack.
@strayhorse precision stacking! I love it! I’ll have to up my woodstacking game! Thanks for the tip. We have a few windfalls which we cut for firewood. Unfortunately last Spring we lost 4 giant Stringybark Eucalypts in a wild storm which decimated our little native forest. We ended up getting some of the larger trunks milled into timber of various sizes which we will use for beams & rafters for a pergola. This species is marketed as ‘Tasmanian Oak’ in Australia and is a beautiful timber.
@chellebree Wow! That’s seriously gorgeous wood! When we built our house, we had some fir milled for all the flooring. It’s great using local wood!