Is there one superior way to stack wood? You can build a round pile, a stack strung with rope, and one braced with the traditional cross-hatched end pillars. Here are a few options to stacking your wood.
As the old saying goes, wood warms you three times: Cutting it, stacking it and then finally burning it. It’s the second step in the process that we will consider.
If you’ve got the right backyard, stacking wood is easy. There’s not much skill level required to pile splits into a woodshed. If you have a few trees on your lot spaced about 13 to 16 feet apart—in warmer months, an ideal hammock span—then stacking wood between them is a no-brainer. But if you don’t have either of these things, you most likely hate the idea of buying a prefab wood rack, you have to get involved in a more complex stacking process. In doing so, you are utilizing an ancient craft.
There are plenty of ways to create a nice stack of wood. We will analyze three different styles of stacking wood. First, the traditional method, with the cross-hatched end pillars, then a variation on that with no end towers, and finally the Shaker round style.