Too much wood for my storage area?!?!

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magnumtoy

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I guess this is a good thing, really.

In past year or two, I've been able to get more and more wood contacts (I'm a scrounger - get it where/when I can) and now have lots of wood (on hilly terrain with not much processing or easy storage areas).

I burn about 3-4 cords/yr which I had previously built a small open shed/lean-to for. Before I contracted the wood gathering/splitting disease, I would pretty much be burning the wood from the shed during one winter while getting/splitting wood for the wood for the next winter barely getting by time-wise. By the time the shed was empty, I was finishing splitting and would start stacking into the empty shed for next year.

But now I have at least 2 seasons worth of wood - and more coming every day. I really like "taking" wood to burn from a shed vs. handling tarps and such.

A few questions to you seasoned burners - should I build another shed for another 4 cords so I don't have to transport from outside pile to the one shed every spring (just cut/split straight into the open shed)? This would help some handling time, but with even more and more wood (3, 4, 5 seasons worth?) I'll eventually still have to transport from piles to sheds. I just hate to transfer from a pile to a shed - it seems like a waste of effort.

I just this second thought of a "portable" shed - AS IF I could lift the one I've got and move it to a pile for the next season!?!? That would be cool. (Mine is of course anchored to footers, and quite heavy, but you get the idea.) Any ideas on moveable sheds or any help to my dilemma?

Thanks guys. I'm getting more addicted to wood and this site! Somebody help me!!!! My wife thinks I'm crazy. "You need MORE wood?"
 
I've had the same problem lately - knowing when to quit. I've gotten myself to the point where I'm about to pay someone to haul one last tri-axle load, and call it quits until spring. (Been hauling with my little Nissan, and 36 inch oak rounds are just a bit much for it! :D)

I have a basically unending source of more than I can handle, and I really hate to shut off the valve and stop the flow, but you gotta do it.

If you can build another shed to hold a year or two worth of wood, do it, and when it's full, call it quits for the year.


Where in the Commonwealth are you?
 
why not get one of those party tents and put it up where you spit, and just pile it on palets. Or, you could build a big shed, and split in there, just vent off the exhaust fumes.:deadhorse:
 
A line up of lean-to's, facing the south, with good airflow, stacking on pallets.

I put everything under cover from the splitter, on pallets and it dries well enough. It stays clean from seasonal debris and the only pests in the pile are a couple mouse nests, no bugs, and it faces north. Today I am finishing the framing and roofing of the south facing leanto, enough for 6cords. When I have more gumption I'll connect the two and have a drive thru wood storage building with great cross-ventilation, and all the equipment will be under cover too.

I'll be takiing pics soon.

Go with the shed setup.
 
What I do is a stack of split (in the wood shed) 2 years worth for you it soulds like and leave the "other wood as rounds and stack it under a trap, when you use a year worth of wood, split the rounds and fill the wood shed with another years worth of wood. Yes it means moving wood from the trap pile to the shed but you will split it in between the move so your are rehandeling but, a rehandeling you would do pretty much anyway when you split it. once you got 4 to 5 years stop collecting wood.

I wish I could collect even 3 years worth of wood, for me it seems like I am lucky to be a year ahead to allow it to season. I don't have the room to store 4 or 5 years of wood.
 
Thanks for all the replies already. Hey Blue Ridge Mark, I'm in Northern Loudoun county - own 4 acres w/ an old farmhouse (c1830).

I wish you guys could see the property, it's challenging to get wood around it, very hilly. What little flat stuff there is (that's accessible by my little 2 wheel drive truck) is taken up by house, play-yard for kids, or too far from house for ease of access for burning during winter.

As it is now, all my wood gets dropped and split in one place, then wheel barrowed 40 ft down to the shed. The shed is inaccessible by truck. Then during winter, I have to wheel barrow loads from the shed 60 feet, through trees, over roots, up a slight slope and to the porch. I store a week and a half's worth of wood on the (covered) front porch (nice and dry and close during snow-n-cold - I can go out in my slippers), but then need to replenish from the shed. If I could easily get my tractor to the front section of the house, I wouldn't mind to move the pile further away where I do have flat areas, but as I said the property is challenging. AhhhhhHH!! :bang:

Bulldoze the whole f'ing place and start over sounds mighty good to me.
 
sounds like you need a good 4 wheel atv--and a small trailer to pull behind it---and about the wife--ask her how she'd like a nice high propane bill-----ive got 6 yrs of ash trees stored out in the country--N E V E R have enough wood--i like warm toes!!!!!!!!!!!
 
60'

Magnumtoy , if you're not getting enough exercise then the 60' trip probably helps but I'd build a woodshed closer . I have a barn about 80' down the hill and before the new woodshed I stacked the dry firewood on cement blocks and 4X4's then covered with tin . I'm not whisslin dixie .
 

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