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No firewood at the cottage or country house is not enough. Even if the house held the gas, it is necessary to heat the stove in the bath, a fireplace in the house, the logs need to grill and barbecue. The estimated amount of dry pine firewood for heating the home area of 100 m? in the autumn-winter period is about 2.1 m³, birch will require less than 1.7 m³. Will take this number as a base, much depends on the insulation of the house, glazed area, etc. are considered Dry firewood with a moisture content of 15-20%, not more. To obtain such moisture, they should be stored in the woodshed or correctly folded stack of at least one year. Wet firewood (svejesobranna) need a lot more, because their calorific value is twice lower. Logs harvested in late autumn or winter, faster has reached the desired humidity. In these two seasons, the circulation of juices in the trees, stops, and due to this, the logs dry faster. Centuries of experience suggests that in the house to store the firewood for at least two of the heating season based your needs. And supply for heating it is necessary to add the stock grill, barbecue and oven in the bath. So, without firewood, without water, and not amplitude, and not syudy (iz K/f «Volga-Volga»). So let’s talk about how to properly stack and store the logs and how to fold a beautiful pile of their hands.
The basic rules of storing firewood in the woodpile ↑
Regardless of whether you want to store the logs in the woodshed, or just in the shed, there are certain rules. These rules are derived from the vast experience of people, and just from common sense:
- Pile or woodshed to blend in with your site, and become a decoration.
- Firewood in the shed should be safely sheltered from rain. Otherwise «planned» 15-20% humidity you won’t see.
- Lumps should be ventilated only in this way they are properly dry. Find a place in the shade, direct sunlight, your logs are contraindicated. And ensure their protection from rain do not interfere with ventilation.
- To keep the wood should dry, this stack should be raised above the ground. Otherwise the lower layers of the logs are dry and can even rot. In the woodshed or the barn also, do not stack firewood directly on the floor – is placed under the first row of boards, bricks, timber. So you will ensure good natural ventilation in the shed.
- Chocks should be put securely. It is a question of your safety. «Saving» the time in folding them into a pile, then you will lose it many times more, shifting the collapsed logs. And well, if without injury.
- The woodpile needs to be folded so that at any time was convenient to get it from the wood. Winter in the dark to get away for a few chocks – not the most pleasant experience. It is better to put it all convenient. Remember, for someone put a woodpile.
- The main pile needs to be stowed at a safe distance from open flame. Better to go over a couple of logs for the grill, than to practice in extinguishing the fire, which can start from fallen logs on the embers.
What kind of wood you choose ↑
The greatest density of oak, it has the ability to smolder for a long time and thereby reduces the number of bookmarks in the oven, but oak wood are quite expensive. The tree species with hard wood is available in all birch and beech and hornbeam. This is all solid wood.
For rocks with medium hardness of the wood include fruit and coniferous trees. They have a calorific value lower than that of birch. Well-lit pear and Apple wood. And the smoke from them is with a pleasant aroma. Worse burning cherry logs. Affordable and good option – the wood of conifers: pine, spruce, larch. From them there is a known problem – they are «shoot» coals, therefore, in open furnaces they should be used very carefully. But there are «bonus», which is that when burning wood emit these essential oils. And for good health, and free sanitation of the premises is carried out.
The tree species with soft wood are alder and aspen. Are cheaper than other wood in the furnace to burn completely. This quality is often used t laying them in the end, so that the chimney is clean from soot. And in order that the calorific value of the load of logs was higher, aspen logs lay along with birch.
How to fold round the pile with his own hands ^ a
The easiest and most straightforward type of woodpile – a pile. Laid in one direction one row, keeping the gaps between the logs, the following stacked in the perpendicular direction.
You can put all the logs in one direction, also keeping the distance between them for ventilation, but this design is fragile. In any case, the opposite ends of the stack it is necessary to strengthen the stakes for the entire height of the stack.
Storage of significant quantities of harvested logs there is another type of pile – round or stojkova (it really looks like a haystack). Its main advantage is compactness for large volumes of firewood.
Choose a well-ventilated, dry place, having a base of gravel or tree bark. The Foundation simultaneously performs the function of drainage.
Consider his first experience as «the first pancake» and make sure he didn’t leave a lump. Whatever the result it did not, one thing is definitely certain: it’s very fun!
On the basis of having a crosspiece made of two equal length stakes. The cross will help us to keep the correct radius round the woodpile. Lay the first row of logs in a circle end to end.
The center of our «Stozhkov» leave blank. After completion of the empty center will serve as a pipe through which will make good ventilation. Partially fill the center can be if you decide to fold a big pile. Then laid out another row closer to the center, but still the pipe is maintained. However, we agreed the records save for the future.
A second layer stacked in the perpendicular direction. We’ve got a bias toward the center of our «Stozhkov». In this circle the wood touching the side surfaces. And so we continue to stack logs, while trying to preserve the bias toward the center. You can periodically put the logs in the same direction as the first round. In addition to saving us the desired bias these supports will give extra strength to the whole structure. And the gradient required for the organization of runoff rainwater.
Having laid crosswise on the same level stakes, we will strengthen the woodpile. At the height of the structure more than a meter and the apparent abundance of logs, which in the woodpile to lay down does not work, you can start in any form to throw them in the empty center. Ventilation in this case will deteriorate only slightly, because randomly thrown wood will not impede air circulation. The wood in the Central design will make the stack more stable.
On the top «floors» leave the flat lumps and stacked them so that they formed a domed roof. The roof, covered with wood bark. This is enough to protect the wood – bark waterproof.
The advantages of such stacking logs is obvious: they dry faster, the whole structure is stable logs in this way per unit area can be folded much more. And that is not unimportant, round pile has a very nice view. We’re not all the same?
We learnt how to fold the round wood in the woodpile. And now a few photos that once again prove that there is no limit to perfection:
What dream firewood in the woodpile? ↑
Narbutovich on laying the wood, you hope a well-deserved night’s rest. However, often it happens that people night again dream about his work on the styling. So what dream firewood in the woodpile?
The wood in the woodpile – you’ll soon have a new love affair. Or you will not experience a shortage of funds (the Dream of the Fedorov).
