Stacking firewood is pleasant work. It’s quiet and even contemplative. The hard and sometimes dangerous work of felling trees and bucking them with a chainsaw is done. The laborious splitting by hand ...

For some, an unstacked cord is a call from the muse to make site-specific art. A good woodpile should offer protection from the elements, airflow, ease of retrieval, and no chance of toppling over, ...

A few weeks ago my neighbor and I were talking firewood. Specifically, we were talking about whether to stack with the bark up or the bark down. He’s a rugged, quiet, mid-western Norwegian type. “Well ...

Q: I’m tired of trying to burn damp firewood. Neighbors of mine leave their wood unprotected as well. I can’t afford to build a firewood storage shed. I can’t put it in my garage either, because I’m ...

Stacking firewood can be a functional art form if you follow the Amish’s lead for making efficient, pyramid-shaped piles. We observed these pyramid-shaped stacks of firewood while on a tour of Amish ...

There's more than one way to stack a pile of firewood, and it's considered by some to be both a science and an art, as you have to stack it so there is some air circulation to ensure that the wood ...