who piles up wood on there front porch?

[CentralVAWoodHeat]

It's a PITA to load, but works pretty good after loaded.
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That looks very nice as well. My wife loves heating with wood but also has an eye for aesthetics. I made sure our indoor firewood rack looked nice when I bought it so it served both form and function. I love the look of a nice full firewood rack against a brick wall.

 

[Kenster]

I keep enough on the front porch to cover us for three or four nights. If the stacks out back get wet with rain, they'll be plenty dry by the time I bring them into the house.

 

[Paulywalnut]

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I keep enough on the front porch to cover us for three or four nights. If the stacks out back get wet with rain, they'll be plenty dry by the time I bring them into the house.

think I'm going to put some there this year. We have a huge stone porch but my wife thinks someone would use it to break a window. I have 10 cord of wood, I think they could carry a piece of oak to a window, but I don't tell her that.

 

[Jmatz]

This is more of a back porch wood pile. But it is closest to the stove, so makes sense. We wanted some sort of barrier to keep people from walking off the edge of the porch (even though it's only 28" above ground and within building code). I chose to keep it open to the wind and weather. After one month, most of the ash is around 18% moisture content. 75% ash, 25% maple. We don't use the stove to heat the house (although it does produce 30,000 btu) - really just a visual thing and nice to use on cold nights.

The box next to the stove has a slab of ash for the top, complete with emerald ash borer markings along the natural edge. Just meant to be a documentation of the pest that created all the firewood we now have because of the dead ash trees.

Sorry this wanders a bit off-topic for this thread!

Before wood rack:


After wood rack:


First fire!


Interior wood box: