What do you stack your wood on???

[Wet1]

You guys that are stacking on 2x4s, are you facing the 2" side or the 4" side facing earth?

 

[myzamboni]

You guys that are stacking on 2x4s, are you facing the 2" side or the 4" side facing earth?

I have it both ways. If you face the 4" side, you need closer supports underneatch (~2 ft). For 2" facing earth you need just one support in the middle.

 

[Wet1]

I use treated 8' lanscaping timbers. They are a tad smaller than 4x4's but much cheaper. I've also used pallets but sometimes they don't hold up if you have a heavy wood like oak. If part of the pallet breaks the whole stack comes down.

The 4"x4" I've been using aren't PT, but they've been free. If I have to pay for them, I'll certainly use PT. What do the landscaping timbers cost these days?

In my neck of the woods PT 4x4x8' are about $7-$8 each. The PT landscape timbers are $1.77 -$2. They are only about 3x4" though. I had no idea they were that cheap until after I bought a bunch of 4x4s for wood racks. :-S

I just called a local HD to get a price on PT landscaping timbers, I was told $4.xx, the 4x4s (PT) are $8.xx. I guess the timbers are a little more costly here... I also asked about the solid 4x8x16 concrete blocks I've been laying my timbers on (I'm now out of blocks), these run about $1 a piece.

I figure 24 PT landscaping timbers and 36 blocks ought to be under $150, this should be enough for me to get 5 cords on. I guess this is pretty reasonable for a stacking system that will look nice and last a very long time.

 

[HearthKB]

2x4x12 PT wood with 5' metal fence posts on each end. Each pile comes out to be about 12' long and about 4' high. I brace the ends and middle of the 2x4's with 7" sections of 2x4 so that in the end I have a rectangle box (or frame if you will) 12'x7".

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Here's a pic from another thread.

How many cords is that? I'm trying to get an idea of how much wood is going to be delivered to my house tomorrow. Getting two cords this week and two more next week.

 

[billb3]

You guys that are stacking on 2x4s, are you facing the 2" side or the 4" side facing earth?

same orientation as [wider] floor and ceiling joists

 

[glacialhills]

I stack outside and use the 6' t posts spaced 8' apart and just go out in my woods and thin a few 2-4" saplings and cut them to lenth and lay two down about 10" apart. I figure after a few years and before they rot I will just cut them up to feed into the furnace and then cut a few more.

 

[got wood?]

Pallets on cement blocks. I use two layers of pallets too. I get them free from the hardware store around the corner, so I am paying only for the blocks. Very stable, very cheap and it makes a huge platform. Last year I had two 8'x8' holz housen on them so I know they can handle the load.

 

[OilNoMore]

This year I bought 4"x16" blocks and put warped pressure treated 4"x4" on them, two in each stack. I bought the 4x4's from the warped pile, they had about 40 of them in 16' lengths, paid $8 for each of them, which I thought was too good to pass on because they weren't that warped and let's face it, you can always use 4x4's for something. If you haven't ever asked to see the warped pile at your lumber yard, my advice is to ask if they have one. You won't believe the deals you can get out of it, and the stuff isn't that bad...certainly good enough to stack wood on. I really like the idea of using pallets to create a wood pile fence. As you can see from the pic, my piles are not in the best location for sun and I'm worried about their dryness come December.

 

[got wood?]

before pallets, I make econo-racks (https://www.hearth.com/talk/threads/1047/ about 1/2 down for ascii depiction and a pic at the bottom). I still use them for overflow.