Stack

In which I struggle to make a wood stack look interesting on a foggy, wet, heartless day that promises to turn to rain.

But the wood is done, finally. Stacked and under cover of sorts.

My neighbour Ray stopped to discuss splitting techniques. He favours buying old short axes from car boot sales and using them as wedges, beating the life out of them with a 7lb lump hammer until, as one did, they simple break in two. But, he said, then you can burn the handle. 

He also added a vote to the two-person maul technique. And rather poo-pooed the idea of an hydraulic splitter on the basis that it couldn't deal with a lot of types of wood. Peter, on the other hand, has 'never looked back' since he bought one from Machine Mart in Deal.

The guy we bought the stove from said he had a whole felling, sawing, splitting, bagging rig that could produce tons of logs per hour. I guess that's the only way you could do it commercially and hope to make a living. But it's a huge capital investment - he mentioned £100k.

Anyway, the deed is done and the rain can come.

For the full size and glory of the stack see here.