Start of rebuilding wood piles

I went into last winter with five piles of wood; one was just wood piled up on the floor, but the rest was in various racks and cupboards. One of these is a rack where I put wood from the garden; that has to dry for a considerable amount of time, so even if the other stacks are depleted, I can’t necessarily use that one. In February, the biggest stack had already vanished. And I wasn't done burning yet.

Through winter, I did keep replenishing the stacks. I still had quite a lot of potential firewood standing around, waiting to be sawn. Some of that was quite old, and some of that was still stairs of Neuadd Ogwen. But by the time it was spring and I stopped burning wood, there was really barely anything left. And I knew that if I wanted to do it all again the next winter, I would have to replenish. Hence my pilfering of the building waste of a nearby hotel, and my enthusiasm for Neuadd Ogwen’s pallets. 

I had made sure to quickly take apart the big pallets. But just taking them apart is not enough! Then the wood needs to be sawn. And the weekend after graduation, I took apart the last small pallet, and got working on the sawing task. 

End of day one

By the end of the weekend, one of my firewood racks had more than a meter of wood in it! And there still is a lot to do. But that pallet wood is quite soft, and you cut it quite easily. So if I just do half an hour of sawing on most days, the rack will be full quite soon. And that will also mean that all these bits of pallet are out of the way. You never know when the next batch of firewood presents itself! I want to be ready for that, and have space. I easily have enough wood ready to be sawn to fill three of my stacks, and the fourth is still full with wood that is by now dry enough to be burnt this winter (it’s my dead Buddleia; not very good firewood, but better than nothing), but that still leaves the biggest stack non-existent for now. But summer is not over yet! We'll see what else I can get my hands on…

Retired pallet