Started Stacking!

[soupy1957]

I LIKE the idea of having the neighborhood boys come by (they even brought their sister......lol) and stack the wood. I think I'll explore this blessing a tad more, when the next two cords show up.

"Neatness counts" for something in the stacks.........and "help" counts for my back!!

-Soupy1957

 

[YZF1R]

I cover just the tops of my stacks because I'm in shade under trees. I found a brown version of the blue tarp and it really blends in with the wood so it doesn't stick out like a sore thumb.

Steve

 

[Lumber-Jack]

For what its' worth...
I found the best, cheapest, neatest solution to tarping firewood is to use used lumber tarps and screw the tarps down.
I usually get my tarps from a structural beam laminating place. They just throw away the old tarps, they get their rough lumber in. I also use them in my stucco business as drop sheets for covering areas I want to keep clean. Again, free lumber tarps is cheaper than expensive drop sheets. Lumber tarps stand up to the weather better than most cheap tarps you buy at the store.
To hold them down on the top of the firewood I found the best way was to cut up some small 2" or 3" squares of plywood to use as cleats and screw the cleats over the edges of the lumber tarps to the firewood to secure the tarps. Please, use an electric drill, not a screw driver, to do this part, so much easier. ;-)

Using sheets of metal roofing to cover firewood is very dangerous. :ahhh:

 

[Cluttermagnet]

For what its' worth...
I found the best, cheapest, neatest solution to tarping firewood is to use used lumber tarps and screw the tarps down...
Using sheets of metal roofing to cover firewood is very dangerous. :ahhh:

You know, that's right, actually. They can be deadly in a storm. Thanks for the reminder. Sheet metal is best used on well constructed roofs, nailed down. Any soft, flexible covering like tarps is going to be way safer on wood stacks.

So far it's only tarps and plywood in use here. We don't get the winds near as bad as some of you guys do.