My Norwegian wood stack is taking shape. I split a few logs today and laid down the first two layers.
Here’s another 360° view:
This is good fun - and good exercise too!
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Looking good! Save the flatter pieces and shingle yourself a roof on that!
Edit: I’m in the ER waiting room and removed my glasses. re-reading your post without my over-corrected lenses, I see you likely know about the roof. I extend a most sincere apology for my presumption.
ER? I hope you’re okay.
Yes I knew about the roof. Although technically you don’t need one: you can just put a tarp over the stack and put regular logs over the tarp to pin it down. But it doesn’t look as nice of course.
Actually I split a bunch of plank-shaped tiles this morning. I have a lot of really thick trunk slices and I can wield a maul well enough to split inch-thick flat sheets out of them fairly repeatably 🙂
Oh my!, in the voice of George Takei, that is rather exciting… all those tick trunks sliced into nice flat tiles. I envy you.
I gave up the house for an easier-to-manage condo, and while I have a fireplace, I do not have a wood stove and don’t think it would be worth the effort to put one in and, at any rate, the condo association is bitchy about storing wood.
ER went fine. They couldn’t figure out what’s wrong, but they put through the tests of everything that would kill me right away. Ruled out: enlarged heart, pneumonia, GI tract issues, and a few other things, so I have a little bit of peace of mind. It could be an arrythmia I think, inherited from my mother. I was following my pulse this morning and pretty sure I dropped a beat or two. Next step is a stress test and I’m not looking forward to it because I hate running for any length of time.
One of the most intriguing projects in a while! I am also an owner of many messy woodpiles. I will be watching your career with great interest.
I remember when my woodpile was contained by two 2x4s continuously tied together through the layers of logs.
It was a particularly shameful period in my life, but I was going through some hard times.
But why?
I quickly checked, and maybe it’s drying better this way?
Alright, nerd talk:
The circle is the 2d variant of the sphere which has the highest volume / surface ratio possible. So the exposed surface of this cylinder is the smallest possible to create.
Although traditions aren’t wrong. Usually. So why?
My guess is that you can create stable wood storage and drying solutions that don’t need additional support and are stable enough to stand anywhere.
Wow, that looks sweet!
Må prøves!
I wouldn’t be able to destroy this art to warm me up
To let it dry out before winter.
This is just the beginning; in the end it will be taller and covered with some sort of roof, I guess.
It looks cool
