A New Woodstack
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- čas přidán 4. 10. 2022
- A good woodstack to season your firewood is essential. And so is preparing the place and the logs. This video follows me as I start building a big one, it will hold over a full winter's logs for my home. There are tips and tricks to making is practical and beautiful - after all, I will look at it every day!
What a good bloke,, thinking of the birds.
Hey Vince I am fortunate to have access to a lot of ash, which I de-bark to accelerate the drying time. I cut big 20"+ Diameter rounds to length 10" - 15" ( 6kw and 10kw log fires in different rooms) then with an axe and mallet remove the bark into shingles which I in turn use as weed suppressants. Most of the logs skin fairly easily, exposing the emerald ash bugs threads, attractive once cleaned out with a wire brush). Once bark removed I leave uncut in the sun for a couple of days and as a result the multiple cracking is really impressive. I than split as you do in square and rectangular sections so satisfying . With all exposed surfaces available for moisture evaporation I can dry ash in 6 months with good summer sun, verified by splitting and moisture testing at the core of the log 15 - 20% and lower - admiration, passion and gratitude for the humble tree and the rewards it provides
Solid advice. 👌🏻
Great new “introduction” video Vince !!!! For some reason it wouldn’t let me comment 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 keep up the good work, I could watch you for hours :)
The tie in pieces that you use are not cheating. Certainly a tall unstable pile is certainly unsafe. My conceit is that I thought that I invented them. I split them from double length logs so they are invisible. The stability they add is amazing. Your wood piles are beautiful.
You display great knowledge and skill - Old crafts are an art and bring with them a great sense of pride and satisfaction - I grew up watching Jack Hargreaves Out Of Town on a Sunday afternoon and have spent many years thereafter admiring such practices - I thrive on gathering, cutting, splitting, stacking and drying wood for my log fires, all of which are fulfilling both mentally and physically
Thank you, sir! You`ve done a excellent work! My entire life i lived in the city and heated my house with gas. Now because of an extremal circumstances in my country i`ve forced to move to village very far from my home. There`s no gas, only cast iron stove and the large forest near my new house. The wood fires was absolutely new for me, and your channel came as greatest help. I can listen your stories, watch you chopping wood, and kindling fires for eternity. Hope to see more of your new videos!
Love your videos 👌
Hello Vince, nothing better than a neatly stacked wood stack. I know exactly what you mean when you say that wood can shrink up to 20% and could topple over? Yes, it’s happened to me a couple of times this season. I went over to my woodpile and found a couple of stacks had partially collapsed due to the drying process, out in the paddock, and in full sunshine.
Happiness is a full woodshed.
Love your content and book, I was excited to see a new video!
Was sitting in front of my own log rack earlier today, smoking a cigar and saw that new videos were posted. Loved to see the set up where you keep cut wood, Vincent. I wish I had that much space in which to put firewood. There is something unarguably beautiful about a rack filled with good stuff! Keep that new one filled anyway!
thanks for all your beautiful videos! we are from France, Dordogne, only heating on wood... we love it 😀 greetings !
Great video, the plank stabiliser ‘cheat’ is such a good idea!
Hey Vince great video. I recently bought your book on eBay. It's by far the best book out there on wood and Wood fires. I've read a few of them. You provide a lot of knowledge. Thanks, glad to see you making videos again.
So good to see a new video from you.
Big fan of the book, great to see an up load!
Winter is coming, time to get your book back out and snuggle up by the wood burner. Love your videos too Vince, thank you. I think the word Hygge comes to mind 😁
Love watching a likeminded fellow, I’m sure you must know of the car tyre to encase the chopping wood and stop it flying all over the place technique, it does save a lot of bending down and replacing….
Hi Vince we all love your videos and get completely lost in them our Happy Days thank you so much. can you help with the stands or trivets you put your lovely blue kettle on as we seem unable to find them anywhere ? thank you please keep your wonderful videos coming they are a breath of fresh air as are you Thank you for your very valuable info .......we love our wood burners and have just had our second one fitted. thanks again take care and stay safe. Jill from North Devon