What can make a wood pile tip over?

[Ralphie Boy]

What will cause a wood pile to tip over? This has been known to tip over a lot of wood piles when operated in a agressive manner!

 

[wesessiah]

magnus makes my wood piles tip over...

 

[My Oslo heats my home]

No. But then we stack only to 4 1/2' most of the time. I do stack up to 8 feet in the barn while getting the winter's wood inside. No problems tipping over yet.

Because space is a problem in my yard I have to have the 6ft tall stacks. But I'm still kind of baffled why the splits would dry (and move) so much that they would force a row to slant and nearly touch the stack in front of it. There are times I will use a split and knock the upper part of the row back into place.

 

[Backwoods Savage]

Most definitely if you have lots of knots, as the wood dries you'll get some leaners. And using a split for that is just good common sense.

 

[ihookem]

A bear will knock a wood pile over,, just for the heck of it.

 

[velvetfoot]

-Stacking in the dark
-Stacking too high

These seem to be the root cause for me.
My stacks do need a tune up with a tamper sometimes.
This is stacking three wide as well.

 

[lukem]

This is the only thing that's tipped one of my stacks :

 

[Jack Straw]

Gravity....

 

[USMC80]

magnus makes my wood piles tip over...

my dog (Gunny) looks exactly like him just older and bigger. I'll have to post up a photo

 

[thewoodlands]

Of course there are many reasons but here is one.

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Yes, that is some fresh digging. There are 2 other holes on the other side of the wood stack. I forgot to go back there and set a trap today. We actually found 2 holes last winter when Pallet Pete came and we loaded some of this well seasoned ash onto his truck. I still had not got around to picking up the saplings that we had the wood stacked on because at the time they were frozen in. I will be using them when I start stacking this year's wood.

On the first picture below you can see some of our wood stacks. The second picture below was taken showing one of our food plots that is behind the one wood pile (the one with the woodchuck hole). The food plots are worked but not yet planted.

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I'm finding more chuck holes when cutting on the side hills, so far I've avoided them.

 

[wesessiah]

my dog (Gunny) looks exactly like him just older and bigger. I'll have to post up a photo

he'll be three in november, so he is just a whippersnapper with a lot of puppy still in him... he's a dogo argentino btw, teeters around 105. edit... i believe i'm going to make a pet picture thread in the picture section since i haven't seen one.