Firewood for Agenzia
Try google "firewood cut store" interesting pages on firewood.
My experience:
Allow for a double row, stack from each side and then the rows tend to lean in to each other.(Same technique for building stone walls) Use a tree or two stakes at one end as anchor/buffer. Can go up to about shoulder height.
Drying firewood requires the wind blowing thru it, so a shed is best for dried firewood.
Your choice is - cut and split it where the tree is, stack it there for drying , just cover with black polythene (tied or weighted down), Splitting in-situ means it is difficult to use a powered log splitter (see web-sites).
or carry (heavy rounds and wet, back breaking stuff) out and put in purpose built drying rows with prebuilt roof - (above head height else always hitting head) - roof overhang to keep out rain, so proper frame and well nailed corrugated iron roof is best. (Doubles as a "party shed" when empty. Once reasonably dry, can drop down batterned canvas sidings - thus becomes a wood shed. In this case, hire a powered log splitter when you have a heap of rounds to do. Note that un split rounds don't dry well. Site as close to house as practical. (Remember the Church shed?)
Best time to do the firewood gathering is in late summer or early Autumn - firewood shed has been emptied (and partied in) - wood in bush has had plenty of summer drying where it is - and a few chilly evenings reminds you to get the job done before it starts raining.
To cut smaller trees and branches with a chain saw, lay same size transverse branches as bearers at a spacing the length you plan your firewood to be, put stakes in at back and then stack longer (same) length limbs up at right angles - long blade chainsaw makes mince meat of the cutting (in bulk).
So endeth the lesson - site inspection next.
For the great heaps you have now, best to cut it up and split it where is and build that shed for storage ASAP. Use salvaged timber for frame - eg - from deck demolition.
I have a small chainsaw, so could do this soon.
This is just first thoughts.
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