PREP from green to seasoned wood in 3 months

[xtreme_right]

I'm really intrigued with this. Alot of firewood with a smaller footprint, seasons faster and it looks really cool!

xr

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firewood

"A holz hausen, or "wood house", is a circular method of stacking wood which results in accelerated drying and a small footprint. A traditional holz hausen has a 10 foot diameter, stands 10 feet high, and holds about 6 cords of wood. The walls are made of pieces arranged radially, and tilted slightly inward for stability. The inside pieces are stacked on end to form a chimney for air flow. The top pieces are tilted slightly outward to shed rain and are placed bark side up. If constructed correctly, this method of stacking can produce seasoned firewood in as little at 3 months."

http://www.holzmiete.de/anleitung.php

This site is in German, but there are tons of pictures of holz hausens to get ideas.

 

[mecoastie]

Very cool but I guess you need a ladder to get the wood on or off the top of the pile.

 

[WalknTrot]

My Dad has always stacked wood like that. When I was growing up, we never had enough space under cover to waste it stacking wood.

I never thought much about it until I saw the exact same thing at a farm museum in Germany. Guess the method was passed down from the oldtimers to the New World.

 

[ejagno]

Here is a link I found with instructions on how to build a Holz Hausen

http://www.thechimneysweep.ca/6seasoningwood.html

 

[ofuzzy1]

xr thanks!

use this for the german site: http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translat...olzmiete.de/holz/&lp=de_en&btnTrUrl=Translate

babelfish is your friend!

 

[Stormy]

Fascinating, xtreme right! Thanks for posting this. About the only way I could figure out how to season firewood in 3 months would be to dump it out in Death Valley for the summer.

 

[momof23goats]

It is cool, but would take me all summer to stack it.

 

[Captain D]

When I was stationed in Germany I used to visit a small farm village on weekends. I saw firewood stacked this way, and it was just one of the many old-world ways of doing things I observed there. I often thought about the time it must have taken to stack the wood this special way with so much attention to detail. I had no idea that there might be a practical purpose other than to make an attractive pile of firewood. They were very neat people. Everything was always in its place.

 

[Angel Lady]

I just copied the instructions for this. Thank you.

Oh, and ofuzzy1, thank you for the translation of the German site into English!


Angel Lady

 

[Hermit]

Here is a link I found with instructions on how to build a Holz Hausen

http://www.thechimneysweep.ca/6seasoningwood.html

Thanks, that beats Babelfish!

 

[twincougars]

Closer to 3 hours

I take andirons, like what you place logs on in a fireplace, and put them on top of my woodstove. Then put green split logs on top of them. Get a good hot fire going with dry wood in the wood stove. Then watch the steam start to come out of the green logs. After a few hours they can be tossed in the woodstove and the process repeated. Don't leave them alone, though, just in case some of the wood drops down onto the stove top and catches fire. IF you don't have andirons, I supose you coud use bricks or some other fireproof support.

 

[frazbo]

I take andirons, like what you place logs on in a fireplace, and put them on top of my woodstove. Then put green split logs on top of them. Get a good hot fire going with dry wood in the wood stove. Then watch the steam start to come out of the green logs. After a few hours they can be tossed in the woodstove and the process repeated. Don't leave them alone, though, just in case some of the wood drops down onto the stove top and catches fire. IF you don't have andirons, I supose you coud use bricks or some other fireproof support.

What a GREAT idea! Now why didn't I think of that? I've got firebricks that I can put on top of my woodburner...duh!