Stacking Cordwood The Proper Way!!!
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Wranglerstar 140 dollar for a stupid cover you can buy 50 blue/orange tarps for that price..
It's a good idea but I don't think Jack was as excited as you were about it.
Good Lord thats spendy
You'll need 10 covers for your 20 cords. $1400.
Wranglerstar I
I just found this video and it made me smile to see you two. Loved seeing the photos of Jack’s crew and wish him a safe return.
Jack is really becoming a smart young man...I admire your fathering abilities Cody, good to see Jack grow into an intelligent young man
Revisited this video to provide information about building a round house rather than building additional racks. Almost finished splitting enough wood to fill the last rack (7th). Still have about 2 cords of wood rounds to split so this application is just what is needed. Beloved, I find your sense of humor, attention to detail, family focus, as well as your sharing so many chores, social, and patriotic topics to be enjoyable and informative. You are the type of patriotic citizen I think would be fun to sit down with for a chat. God Bless your family and America.
You are a great dad. The way you explain things to your son is very calm and patient
Thats a crazy amount of fire wood. Here in Latvia i get through around 3 cords of firewood a winter. We heat our house with masonry heaters that have enough thermal mass to stay warm for up to 3 days from a single burn. The gasses from the burning fire also pass through a series of channels within the internal brick walls of the house which helps keep the actual structure of the house inside constantly warm. This method of heating is very efficiant especially in our smaller houses.
Excellent Idea I'll use it on my re do task list.
Those masonry stoves are sweet. The only thing close is a rocket mass heater. Drawback to them however, you must either know how to build one or know someone else who does. That knowledge is not well known in the US, unfortunately. Most people here use wood stoves or wood cookstoves. 150 years ago +/- they stuck to fireplaces or woodstoves. Those fireplaces really went thru wood. Anything is an improvement by comparison.
Wow that is awesome I wish we had those here in the US
Masonry stoves are awesome. We have them in Finland too. Much more efficient than open fireplaces and comparing to wood stoves, the outer surfaces never becomes dangerously hot.
What an awesome capability. Such an efficient way to heat...and inexpensive!!!
My brother and I used to cut, split and stack fire wood all summer long for our Dad. (Red Bluff, CA. 110 degrees in the shade. No shade.) When he didn't have us with him in north eastern CA herding sheep and cattle. We did all this with tools that looked like they were salvaged from a ship wreck! No tractors. No power tools of any sort. Buck saw and splitting maul. Your videos are great because you don't scream, yell, verbally abuse and beat your kid because one stick of wood wasn't placed perfectly. What I like to call the Victorian method of child rearing. Your son is profoundly lucky. You are a good man and that is one neat wood pile.
videolabguy: Do we have the same dad?
I'm less than 120 miles from you, to the northeast. Sheep? Basque?
Today I visited one of my best Basque friends who was in need. She got to meet my new wife, with hugs all around. Good neighbor.
Good to hear from you.
I know exactly what you are talking about. Learned the hard way growing up how not to treat my own child from the old man's poor examples on how he handles his wife and 2 - 1 children.
What an A hole. Thanks for the lesson.
I'm sorry to hear you are victims of narcisisstic abuse. Your father seems to have a personality disorder. I will advice you to read all you can about narcissistic parents. These ppl leaves an emotion desert behind, and that's why you should go no contact and keep him out of your life forever!
Wow ... Victorian you say ? I am no longer alone
Back before wranglerstar was a grounded pimp. We truly are living in strange times.
I've watched Wranglerstar almost since the beginning and it is very nice to see how much the homestead has evolved.
I was taught by a Scandinavian guy. They lived in the mountains and was stacked this way because you could stack a pile of wood to match the terrain. Throwing the wood in the middle was the best part. He said they used a piece of plywood and a rock for the top. You could access the inside of the pile by making a "door", and leave the plywood on top.
I think the beginning needed a head phone warning
Trapper Kidd agree
Agreed
Really, I wasn't even wear head phone and it still hurt. I'd never hit the mute button so fast before. :)
It caught me out and I dropped my dawg lol
Yeah, that was brutal.
I now live in RHs over %50% most of the year, much rain. If I moved to your area, I'd want to see what systems the long term neighbors use. Now we stack long single cross windrows about 4 feet high, tarps off until needed. Keep moisture meter handy and hope for less 20% before using for burning.Oh, and much less labor
Two weeks ago: super high fire danger!
Now: winter is coming!
I love living where we have four seasons.
Me: How to just toss firewood into a woodshed, however the hell you want.
If you stand the center wood up and stack it to the top it gives a peak when finished and creates a chimney effect to get more airflow drying the wood faster. Been stacking this way for a few seasons now after looking up fastest drying firewood storage online because I got a late start on cutting. Keep up the great content. Thanks from OH.
Guys, Jack has certainly grown a ton since I started watching your videos! I laughed out loud at 3:00 I raised 5 sons and the common theme I seemed to complain to them the most about was "Son, you may have to bend over and touch it!" Hope your winter is mild this year. Thanks for the videos!
I love the music in the begin.I wanted to thank you for bringing this content to us, some may not be so privileged so it's a joy to watch someone doing and enjoying their dream while raising a family.Thanks for all you do sir!
If I had a dollar for every time wranglerstar used the phrase "the proper way"...
I could by that cordwood cover
Yep, but he never adds on.. "in my humble opinion" does he :-)
Give me .05 every time he says “so” and I’ll be richer.
Dudes know it all perspective gives that douchey thumbs down...
Well the “proper way” would to spell “buy” in your last sentence.
What's that opening song? It's fantastic!!!
I found it : Andrew Bird - Roma Fade, it's the World Cafe live recording.There is also a better recording from a NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert, at 5:13.
It really is a nice song, isn't it?
Dire Straits: Brothers In Arms 7:32
I was like "THAT'S Andrew Bird! But I don't recognize the song! And I bet they didn't clear the copyrights to use it in their video."
You found it, throw it away. Too loud, too crappy.
"Stack wood the proper way." proceeds to dump bucket full of wood on top of pile
The alternative is putting each piece up by hand
Is the inside core hollow, thus why you just dump buckets of wood inside?
I love it when you use them as the back drops for the videos you use as personal talk or rants.
That's a cool way of stacking the wood but that cover is kind of pricey.
Ouch is right! That is quite an investment into some material and some bungee cords. I wonder if you could stack the wood that way but not cover the stacks with anything. maybe slope the ground underneath them outward so any water that gets in there can drain out?
Price is steep, but I like the vent feature. But not enough to replace my current tarps. 10' x 20' "scrap" rubber tarps held down by logs thrown on top. Also when able, rank the fire wood on top of pallets.
Kyle Merl, if you look closely, he is using ratcheting strap tie downs.
Kyle Merl 12x12 tarp would cover it for $10. This method drys the wood faster.
Kyle Merl I saw on another video where the placed a small tarp on top then stacked the final rows bark up on top of the tarp.
Not much need for firewood here in Florida, so I don't have a ton of stacking experience, but this way seems to be more labor intensive than stacking in rows. To each their own ......
BangFlop you just said you don’t know what you’re talking about. It’s a German technique, not his. Go on and stack some logs. You won’t have the energy to make fun of someone else when you’re tired from some good hrs work
No hate here, Brad. You know what I mean. Gotta add to the the conversation otherwise it’s simply unhelpful. If you don’t know you don’t know.
@Freedom Toast it doesn't season as well when you just leave it in a pile like that
It seasons faster, with this method. Less than half the time or more versus the old stacking in a line. Although it does take longer to stack, and when you're exhausted from cutting,loading,unloading, and splitting, most don't care how it's stacked. A little more work tho, and you have great seasoned wood by doing this method.
That looks like a mouses dream house and a snakes dream cafeteria.
I like it, this next summer we are building a wood shed, we want to be able to put up 15-20 chords
"Winter is coming"
krazium Kinova Beat me to it
Winter has come
DAMMIT! I can never hear those words without thinking of Game of Thrones.
krazium Kinova agree
The wood piles are nice. If Claude Monet was there, he would do paintings of them.
LOL
this comment is really underrated
All these negative comments about how expensive a tarp is... I don't think people understand the point of the video was to show an awesome way of stacking wood and you just throwing in a product placement that is pretty clever, apparently is offending. Keep up these videos! I always enjoy products to make things easier.
Thank you Cody, axe and firewood videos never get old!
Now you're opening your video with Andrew Bird?!?! Are you my long lost twin?
You have a wonderful tractor, why not palletize the firewood and use the tractor to transport the firewood between the splitter, storage, and the boiler? Use old plastic tank cages, conveyor the wood from the splitter straight into the pallet cage. This maybe isn't as space efficient but neither is circular piles of firewood.
Wow, I never thought of putting firewood on pallets. With the tractor and everything.... that would be nice and efficient.
He likes to work harder not smarter
I appreciate how this is more a video of you teaching your boy and less of one pandering to the masses. Wholesome, heartwarming, and authentic.
I've piled my wood in Holz Hausen's many times. A couple tips for you.
1.) When looking at you walls from an angle, the wall should taper in towards the top. (Reason: If you make them 90 degrees, they will blow-out over time. This happens because as the wood drys it starts to shrink and shift around.)
2.) Take your time and make sure every piece of wood is angled inwards. (Reason: This makes the pile look nicer, you won't need the pieces going in the same direction of you starter row.
3.) Don't pile your Holz Hausen in direct sun light. (Reason: This method of stacking wood, accelerates the drying process, you will be left with wood that is way to dry, and burns way to fast in your stove.)
4.) Most Important Advice, revisit the piles every month and tap the pieces in with the back of your axe, keeping them tight.
Anyways Happy Heating!
Thanks Blake
It's a nice looking pile for sure. A few concerns: Stacking wood on the ground, even when it is sitting on a tarp, pretty much ensures that the bottom one foot of wood will absorb snow melt/ rain rebound through capillary action unless you get the wood itself off of the ground. Secondly: Unless this firewood is at 20% moisture content or less, any water that is trying to evaporate from the wood under that cover (despite the top vent) has the potential to condense on the underside of the tarp and ultimately keep the wood wet. Best to create an airspace between the top of any wood pile covered with a tarp to allow for proper circulation. Time + Temperature of 60˚F+ and Turbulence dries firewood. Treat firewood the same way you would treat a wet load of laundry. Do what it takes to get it dry and then keep it dry.
Loved the video! My wife asks what I'm watching and have to decide if I actually tell her a man stacking fire wood. But I love the videos. It's awesome and Jacks getting big fast. Nice work! Super sweet!
Nothing like firewood heat. It warms you at least seven times before you even lite it. 😎
For those have stupid negative comments, move along and make your own channel. You are not putting yourself out there for all to see. Cody is sharing ideas here. Yes, he makes money at it. Use what you can.
I have a feeling this guy learns something new and a week later creates a video acting like he is an expert on the subject.
Dan seems like it
The important piece is having tested it / tried it a bunch within that week before making the video on it.
Hah! 140 USD for the cover, are you kidding me? I can buy 2 cords of wood already dry for that. I prefer rows and the cheapest crappiest tarp I can find.
mbcris I checked, I can buy 6m3 for approx. 400 usd, If I buy more than 40m3 cash and at least 45cm I get up to 20% discount. So not that far off. I believe 2 cords is about 7m3.
Affra » 2 dry cords for $140?? What planet do you live on? I'll bring a cargo ship.
your buying cut split wood? Unless your elderly its kind of missing the point by even having a wood stove then.
it does if its old and filled with holes
the tarp is reusable, the wood is not...
I don't know what these other people are talking about🤔 Thumbs up on this video! Loved it👏👏👍
The production value alone is amazing
and when your clearing fields use the rock to make a bed to keep the wood off the grounds
We got lots of rock and I'm starting a wood yard. good idea. More exercise / work!!!
This is the first Wranglerstar video to receive a thumbs down from me. A decent woodshed to hold 12 cords of wood could be built for much less than the cost of six fancy round tarps. This video was a 14 minute infomercial. Sorry, and honest opinion is all I have to offer.
T[[o.o muchhlabor
Wow a lot of negative comments. Thanks for the video Cody, I learned a lot.
Takes me back to when we had wood stoves as a kid.
Snakes ever get in this ? Looks like a perfect spot for them to coil up in.
Please to a tour of your homestead, and how many acres so you own?
Gameingextensions he owns 1.5 acers....
pasta sald xtrapasta , really!? That's nothing really. I always assumed he had much more.
pasta sald xtrapasta He owns way more than that
Owen Gordon i know lol
I believe he stated that his homestead is about a 100 acres in a previous video and probably stated in their book as well.
That cordwood cover costs $200. Ridiculous! Better to have a shingled roof made of cord wood - results in much better venting.
Keep being awesome Wranglerstars!
Thank you Adam
I have been watching these videos for a long time now. Some commenters keep saying that the way he does things is not what they did as a kid and he should not be using all the equipment he does. One comment in this video also inferred that he would be at a loss if all the modern stuff disappears. It wouldn't be "modern" homesteading otherwise.
Taldrews homesteaders have always used what was available. If you have machines available, use them.
6*2.2=13.2 cord not 11
I'm glad I wasn't the only person to notice that. In this video he struggled with his maths quite a bit.
Philip Thomas never do math on camera lol
Did you watch the video
it will be less than 10 true cords if he keeps understacking them like that though :P
We just have a wood shed that can store at least 10-14 metres of wood (Australia) with a concrete floor and 3 walls and covered in roof :)
sense he already stack 2.2 cords he has 5 left.. 2.2 x 5 = 11
I love the way you gently taught your son.
Really nice to catch up on some videos. I remember on the old channel when Jack was just a little squirt. Look how he's grown. God bless.
The method of stacking firewood will always be a matter of personal prefference and will be depending on the individual circumstances. Life in Farmland for instance has put a lot of time in researching what method of stacking and drying wood is best for him. In his case normal stacked wood on pallets with stacked butresses on each end of a section is best for him. He didn't measure better drying properties of his Holz Hausen experiment. But like I said it is a personal prefference and with him it helps that he has the abbility to stack severall years worth of firewood on his farm.
100% agree. I have been using pallets and rubber tarps for years and have always had good dry wood when needed. Also try to keep 5 years worth of wood at any one time. As they say, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Jelle Baris » It has a lot to do with climate. Cody's way might be perfect for snow country. Where I live rain water would puddle on the tarp the stack is sitting on, rain would drench all the exposed wood and the covered wood on top would get drenched by condensation.
Jelle Baris agree
While I see the validity of the idea and that's a neat product, straight stacks with the wood criss crossed on the layers throughout then finished off with a sheet of tin as a cover works pretty darn good for me and doesn't require any extra materials that I would have to buy and will hold itself up also. just my $.02
Southron Jr well said, my fathers been doing it that way for fifty years
Southron Jr ... yep, that's how we stack and store our wood too. Made a shelter out of a couple dead standing cedar trees - a bit of scrap bailing wire to tie em in, and a discarded piece of tin roof we got from the dump, as a cover. Does the job ... cost = 30 minutes.
Been using this system the last few years. I stack it on top of pallets and use bungee cords to secure tarps over the top and down to the pallets. It dries fast, keeps the wood dry, and looks nice in the yard.
Stacked wood my whole childhood and never seen something like this...MIND BLOWN
That Pile would make a hell of a bonfire all nicely stacked like that
@Barq--yay, along with half-a-dozen kegs :)
I love re watching these old videos.
I could be stealing, I could be killing, but I am here asking for your thumbs up!
Great comic relief on a very nice video.
Thanks, Cody, and God bless you and yours!
It is obviously important to orientate the cover so that the sponsor's logo is towards the camera.
South Efrikan If Pepsi subscribes to him, it would be nice to support Pepsi :)
no he said a subscriber told him about the method and the tarps
We would go through 14 to 17 cords of wood, lived in Alaska and heated with only wood. We used a mobile carports thing it's been up for 10 years now with no problems Just have to get the snow off.
Hiro Protagonist from Oswego County New York almost the same as Alaska and we use the same portable carports.
Maybe this is a stupid question, but, if you have a tractor with a bucket, why not just lash 4 palettes together in an open-topped cube and pour the wood in the middle?
thanks for blowing out my tweekers with that intro
This is a great method other than the fact that it takes the simple act of stacking firewood and turns it into a much more complicated time consuming project.
Exactly. The best method is whatever is quick and simple and works for your situation.
Put a mic on Jack.
So we can hear him yawning his poor head off
Yes, agreed. Put mics on anyone in the video. One of the last ones with Brian was irritating because I could hardly hear him.
actualy hearing the kid was kind of irritating
Jim Chamberlin agree
Yours is the only channel I allow commercials to complete, in hopes that you benefit from it. You're a great guy!
Seeing 'Old glory' flyin in the background makes me proud to be one of your subs !
I was taught that if you have nothing nice to say, say nothing at all, outta here!
you didnt say anything nice...
There wasn’t anything I had to say that was nice, there for.................
Thank you Wranglerstar for showing our product in the great video! It was fun to watch you and Jack build the woodpile!
We sold out quickly but are happy to say we have some more limited inventory over at Amazon with much more come in the next few days!
I wish my father has taught me skills like this... the older i get the more i realize i was not taught how to survive 🤣 Jack will be a successful one for sure
I much like the frames from the square chemical totes. You can just dump the wood in and heap the top and get as much wood as stacking it level. Leave the rail off one end of the back porch and you can just fork them into place. The round stacks look real nice and can be done anywhere and a tarp thrown over ensures it will season, so it is as good as any other method.
Hmm, I'm from Germany but I have never seen anyone stacking his wood like this :o
Lol ..... yup ..... geeeez
Stack around a cafe umbrella or beach parasol. Use a pipe or EMT that the pole can fit inside of. Drive that into the ground and then the umbrella pole can be adjusted for height.
WOW, after watching you scoop up wood like that, I need a tractor! LOL!
Great video, thanks!
5:20 lol I feel that 😂
Not sure when Amazon will have it in stock
Hi Edgar! We did sell out but now have more in stock on our website and on Amazon.
Just a really stupid question. Why don't you pile them inside while you seem to have lot of space?
It's great that you identified a problem with stacking wood, then used a subscriber to fix your problem. Some people are saying it's time-consuming and uses more space, but hey you have free labor and plenty of space. I enjoyed the music you used in the video. Thank you for your videos!
Looks like the stack could go higher than rows which would make up for lost space. I stack up to 6.5 feet vertical freestanding and some of the rows have to lean on others toward the top to stay up as they dry and shift!
Children grow so fast. Blessings ya'll Thanks for sharing
Cody, don't do math on video. You will have 13,2 cords at 2.2 X 6.
Greyman Zink yes, and taking a look at this pile, it seems far short of the 2.2 cords that is marked on the cover at 5’ high. IF this has had a radius of 5’ as mentioned at the first while laying out the base mesh (looks more like a diameter of 8’ than 10’) you have 2r, or 10’, times pi 3.14, times 5’high, you have 157 cubic feet of wood (doubt that the middle fill is stacked tight enough to count), which is 1.2 cords of wood. My guess is the whole stack is just shy of a cord. A lot of work to stack it this way. Use the $140 for propane.
Still thumps up. Thank you for teaching me how to stack wood in a different way. It would have saved me some amazon time if you just mentioned the price of the fancy tarp in the video it self:) thanks anyway, I get a lot of value/s watching your videos. To the annoyed, you don’t check the teeth of a free horse:)
I really like Matthias Wandel's idea of building a box with a roof on top of a pallet. Make a bunch of those and pack them full of firewood, then bring them near the door with your tractor as needed.
Intro had a real Clint Eastwood spaghetti western thing going on there with the music. Others aren't seeming to enjoy it, but it really took me back.
Wranglerstar You have multiple out buildings on your property already. A couple you are not really using or under using. Why not just take the tractor, and dump the wood in one? When you need wood this winter take the tractor, scoop it up and bring a load up to the house. Just seems like either a lot of work for not much benefit, or you are shilling yourself out to an advertiser.
Seems a bit time and space intensive. Would be able to stack just as much in less total space in a lot less time just going in rows. Driving a few pipes into the ground and properly bungying a tarp down seems a lot easier...
Good idea, where's the video?
a video about common sense?
dont think he's too short on space
Don't need a video just to make a statement. Rows are going to be more dense than fanning out in a circle, and you don't have wasted space between your stacks. I've stacked wood my whole life, and can stack a cord in about 10-12 minutes by myself, which seems like less time than it takes just to set the foundation of a circle stack.
For me function is not the only factor. I like things to be beautiful and inspiring to look at,
Wranglerstar truly is the best channel on UA-cam!
God Bless
Lots of fun. Thanks for sharing your knowledge
Watching this I was thinking about your urban interface video. With that in mind, how far away from structures or each other should these stacks be? Did you make any considerations specifically for fire threats? Thanks for all the knowledge! Keep up the good work!
Or you could just put your firewood in the big empty dry barn.....
You don't get sponsored from big empty barns.
You can’t work in a wood filled barn.........
I thought your whole jenga project was coming down when you went to dump that wood in the center. Brave....lol
12:20 enthralled
You need to add a second microphone for Jack and Brian
I've seen this done before, but never got around to trying it, think I will this year.
btw 6 * 2.2 = 11?
I noticed that too but them I realised Cody was using imperial to calculate
so it was 6x2 1/5 = let me see 32 minus 7 carry the 4 divide by 7 ah yes 11 that's it. who needs decimals
Your videos make for great mornings here. I work on computers and servers all day, but the care and craftsmanship is still needed for any trade. Thank you for keeping me company every day over the years.
Thank you Phil
Cody a prob with his wood in previous years so he made a change and since it worked out good for him he is passing it on with this video! Sounds like something we would all do, thx Cody!
Getting a big laugh at all the comments being left by self proclaimed firewood stacking experts that have clearly never picked up a piece of firewood in their lives, much less stacked any. If you don't like this method then don't use it but please do us all a favor and stop complaining about your choice to view it. For the record, for those who haven't seen it, Cody has shown this method for stacking firewood before so he obviously does consider it the "proper way" or he wouldn't be doing it again. Only the covers are new, so he's showing them to so we can make up our own minds about using them or not. So make up your mind, then do that. I doubt Cody would gig you for whatever method you choose to use, so please stop doing that to him.
We are laughing back at you and your suckle up comment
this is a waste of time. In the amount of time that took you could have stacked twice the wood at least in rows.
Obviously you have no idea how much wood goes in a Holz hausen
Thanks Cody. It is nice to see alternative ways of doing things. It was interesting.
As a norwegian teen from a farm, i've never seen this way of stacking firewood before. Quite interesting