I posted a few pics a while ago of my firewood for next winter. I thought I'd been real clever and dne a great job. But I hadnt. We have had a lot of rain and high humidity just lately and tis has shown up my poor stacking skills. I had not left wide enough air spaces under or betwen the stacked wall's. (there were gaps but some were only 2 inches or so) and a little of the timber had turned into that turqoiusey green verdigris colour mould, really minging it was. I thought I'll have to do better than that, we have plenty enough mould's round here
I read on a forum about holzhaufen (german wood stack's) where they make a round stack with a sort of flue up the centre that draws air through the stack continuously. They reckon you can go from freshcut to 20% MC (ie usable firewood) in 3 monthes. So I had a go and this was the result.
There is a large post in the centre driven into the ground
The base is resting on logs with hazel poles and odds and ands of plywood etc to leave a clear 5 inch minimum air space.
I set out 2 courses of logs arranged like spokes radially. The centre area is packed with logs up on there ends. I just continued ading more and more logs, build up the cocentric rings a bit, then add verticals in the centre, keep on like that. every now and then added horizontals to keep the radial logs level instead of sloping outwards. The roof is just long half and quarter logs laid loosely; the rain is suposed to run off without drenching the insides too badly; although they do tend to slide, I might tie them in pairs to stop that. Its about 8 feet diameter and about 10 feet tall.
It is completely surrounded by fresh moving air (not stagnant and laden with moisture and spores as with my first effort) I trust the german ways they understand forestry things well, hopefully this method will work well here!

I read on a forum about holzhaufen (german wood stack's) where they make a round stack with a sort of flue up the centre that draws air through the stack continuously. They reckon you can go from freshcut to 20% MC (ie usable firewood) in 3 monthes. So I had a go and this was the result.

There is a large post in the centre driven into the ground
The base is resting on logs with hazel poles and odds and ands of plywood etc to leave a clear 5 inch minimum air space.
I set out 2 courses of logs arranged like spokes radially. The centre area is packed with logs up on there ends. I just continued ading more and more logs, build up the cocentric rings a bit, then add verticals in the centre, keep on like that. every now and then added horizontals to keep the radial logs level instead of sloping outwards. The roof is just long half and quarter logs laid loosely; the rain is suposed to run off without drenching the insides too badly; although they do tend to slide, I might tie them in pairs to stop that. Its about 8 feet diameter and about 10 feet tall.
It is completely surrounded by fresh moving air (not stagnant and laden with moisture and spores as with my first effort) I trust the german ways they understand forestry things well, hopefully this method will work well here!