Firewood racks need to be neither expensive nor fancy. Their essential purpose is to keep the logs or (ideally) split firewood off of the ground and accessible to decent airflow, to help the wood dry out. Given the opportunity, I prefer to build my log racks out of recycled and found materials. After our complete dock…
It’s hard to believe it’s been nearly seventeen months since I wrote the first entry in SPISBLOG’s Journal. That first post was about a surplus of firewood we got as a result of some mature trees being removed and what I did to get that wood ready to season. This afternoon’s work was the closing chapter on that firewood post. The remainder…
Example of the racks I made- spisblog_lograck_plans.pdf To help familiarize myself with the recently installed Inkscape Vector Graphics Program (on my Linux box), I created a simple plan for the log racks I built last fall. This was my first use of this application, so the drawing is not to scale and can use a…
The warm weather has passed and the cold midwestern Autumn has returned. The outside temperature has climbed to a balmy 39F. What a perfect morning for a fire in the hearth.
In September we had six trees taken down which provided a lot of firewood for the wood burning fireplace in our family room and the outdoor copper fire pit on our patio. Thanks to a rented log splitter I was able to get the majority of the wood split. I ended up with roughly five…