![]() ![]() protect from water and other elements as well as be strong and longlasting. The products that we want to launch under the Hippo brand need to have similar properties, i.e. If I did that around here the wood in the middle would never dry, and if it would get very humid in the middle area under that tarp, likely causing the wood in the middle to absorb moisture again.The concept behind choosing the Hippo is that it spends a lot of time in water and is generally considered to be a strong and powerful creature. The issue I was pointing out with BB's wood was the one huge cover he is using. A simple top cover takes care of that problem. then often freeze again leaving the wood in a big messy block of snow and ice. When it would snow it would sit right on top of the wood and slowly melt and run down into the stacks. However, snow was the bigger issue for me before I had a woodshed, not rain. A lot depends on the type of weather you get in your area. And yes a lot of people don't bother to cover at all and it seems to work out for them because the stacks dry right out, providing they single, or at the very most double row stack. If you don't have a top cover may only get most of the one side wet from the 45 deg rain (I'm assuming it's coming 45 deg from the side and not the end of the stack), but it will also hit the top as well, so you will get more water on the wood. Perhaps he also has a moisture membrane under that wood pile preventing the moisture from coming up out of the ground, I don't know? If I did that around here the wood in the middle would never dry, and if it would get very humid in the middle area under that tarp, likely causing the wood in the middle to absorb moisture again. ![]() I'm just trying to figure this stuff and I ain't spitting in a dry creek bed.Ĭlick to expand.If you don't have a top cover may only get most of the one side wet from the 45 deg rain (I'm assuming it's coming 45 deg from the side and not the end of the stack), but it will also hit the top as well, so you will get more water on the wood. So,-if you as Bart is showing, put a narrow strip of plastic on top of a stack, how in the world is that going to keep the stack dryer? The only pieces of wood that won't receive a good drenching would be the pieces directly beneath the plastic and after the rain those few dry pieces will trapped under plastic like a cigar in a humidor.īart, please take no offense, I'll not live long enough to know a fraction of what you know. We are taught here to stack our stacks so that the winds and sun can work best for drying, ie- sideways to the prevailing winds. Around here, it's common to see the rain falling at a 45 degree angle, more sometimes, less sometimes, but 75% of the time it's 45 degrees or more. I can see if you have enough over hang to keep a driving rain from reaching the stack, it would be good, but most rains/fronts are proceeded and accompanied by winds. (Sort of like in theory everything is great but in practice it ain't, or something like that) Covering your stacks seem like a no brainer, but it's a bit more complicated in practice. ![]()
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