A piece of firewood
has a small side and a big side. Oh, once and a while you get some straight grained wood, but for the most part, firewood is not symmetrical. The upshot of this is the need to be careful stacking.
Ever stack three ring binders? it’s kinda like that only the difference in size is bidirectional. You not only have to alternate front to back, you have to alternate side to side. And that alternation has to be tempered with the fact that no two pieces of firewood are the same size, either.
Bad picture taken after dark, but you sort of get the idea. This is about a half cord, and will be more than a full cord when the rack is full; what looks like chaos is actually a pretty solid pile.
The germans build a thing called a holzmiete or timber rental that is an actual structure, you take the wood from the inside as you burn it. They rely on the tapered nature of the wood to make an upward sloping cone over which they place a crude roof, and use the interior portion to split wood. here’s a good article on how to build one, and how they look when complete.
I’m not that concerned about looks.
Another learning experience at Neanderpundit!
I enjoyed the photos of the wooden friends. The one made to look like a cabin with windows and decorated with flower boxes, etc., had it’s own smaller rent.
I in particular enjoyed the translation puzzles that your link to the rents led me to. Here is one from clicking on a picture.
“The roof is very oblique, the sodas, the water can run off of rain from the rent down.”
This one was easy, and I didn’t even need to understand nested German grammar.
“The roof is very oblique, so as the water from the rain can run down off of the rent.”
In another unsolved puzzle, I’m guessing there is some colloquialism that was too difficult for the translator in two instances. The word “gestappelte” in the original German was split: gest was translated into “confess” and appelte was left behind. ???
A video on how they built these things would be instructive. Also how they remove the logs as needed. You say they remove them from the inside? I’d imagine it would be the top down unless they build a entryway on a blind side as they remove the logs.
All the ones I’ve seen in perso n have had a door, and you made the outer ring, and filled it from inside until it was FULL. Then you took wood from inside to out, top to bottom on each concentric ring, of course.
“gestappelte” is the past participle “stacked” used as an adjective. the translations in the articles are rough- “Miete” means “rent” but in this sense it likely means more “Meute” which is another word for a pile or a bunch of something.
The Texas Aggies used to make something like that. Ultimately didn’t work out too well.
Cool. Mother Earth News showed a way to build a house using firewood and stacking and filling in with mud, like loose stacking rocks.
Hey, what happened to our fall hunt?
RD: Extenuating circumstances. I will email you.