Storing logs

[Harrygary]

Hi could you tell me the best ways to store your logs I've started to get a good collection I lay them flat on top of each other and each end is coated in wax they are stored in my garage / work shop but I'm worried in the summer it gets very hot do people store them outside Thank you

 

[CHJ]

Should be fine, if you think they might dry out too quickly cover the pile with a couple of layers of old sheeting to limit the air circulation (but not stop them breathing) so that they are in a little micro climate of their own, that way the humidity level all round the logs will be more constant.
Old style wood yards often store their best wood at the back and bottom of the shed stacks so that it dries slowest and is cocooned in the humidity given off by the bulk of the wood.

 

[Tazmaniandevil]

and sometimes it will split regardless of how careful you have been.
There are a lot of factors at work, and we are at the mercy of nature. I got some freshly felled alder at the start of autumn, all cut into 4' lengths and about 4-5" in diameter. I got them home, sealed the ends with anchor seal, and stacked them upright in their lengths with poly bags over the ends. One piece, with a particularly good crotch has split along the full length into 2 of the branches.
I suspect the failure was already there and the frost got at it.

It's all part of the rich tapestry of our hobby/vocation/calling. Cracks/splits are not necessarily the end for the timber in any case. Even the smallest piece of stock can be useful.

Good luck.

Tom

 

[Random Orbital Bob]

That's what pen making was invented for

 

[CHJ]

That's what pen making was invented for

Gets a bit much when you have no more room for all the sacks of blanks though.
Neighbour appreciates them for firing up his wood burner though when I have a clear out.

Think the current rate of exchange is approx. 4 bags for a Brace of pheasants, although the swapping of home made Marmalade for Eggs confuses the exchange rates.

 

[Tazmaniandevil]

Hen's eggs or duck eggs?

 

[Random Orbital Bob]

That's what pen making was invented for

Gets a bit much when you have no more room for all the sacks of blanks though.
Neighbour appreciates them for firing up his wood burner though when I have a clear out.

Think the current rate of exchange is approx. 4 bags for a Brace of pheasants, although the swapping of home made Marmalade for Eggs confuses the exchange rates.

I wonder what the FX markets would make of that? I was shorting pen blank futures when Soros flooded the market with Cotswold Marmalade....Orange Wednesday!

 

[Grahamshed]

I think you need some sleep Rob.

 

[CHJ]

Wood not worry too much about it Rob, they'll eventually sus that the resulting reduction in Kit Contructions output is going to result in an Energy Surplus that can be Written Off as a Tax Loss against those excessive Drilling Consortium profits they made on the speculative purchase of Pen Derivatives from Fountain Inc.

 

[Random Orbital Bob]

I think you need some sleep Rob.

says the bloke posting at 07:30 on Easter Sunday

 

[Random Orbital Bob]

Wood not worry too much about it Rob, they'll eventually sus that the resulting reduction in Kit Contructions output is going to result in an Energy Surplus that can be Written Off as a Tax Loss against those excessive Drilling Consortium profits they made on the speculative purchase of Pen Derivatives from Fountain Inc.

spit that economic thesaurus out Chas, you're going to choke

 

[CHJ]

That's what comes of using the Business Supplement of the Newspaper to wrap the green blanks in. Or light the bonfire with dependent upon which way the wind is blowing.