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Originally Posted by Ken E
Dumb question here. What is stacked "yankee"?
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LOL it's a macism
What it means to me is a certain way to stack cord wood to measure how much there is in real full cords of wood, and to make it shed rain water or melting snow with no cover, shed, posts, construction etc etc.
This is done on 2 level logs or pallets. I prefer the logs or pallets to be 16 feet long or longer always dividable by 8.
2 pallets is close enough to be 8 feet long, so 16 is double, and so 32 works.
Then on a 16 fool long section of pallets cord wood is stacked criss crossed, always with the bark up, and built solid which holds the rest of the wood from falling over. A pallet set up to be 16 feet long holds 2 cords in 2 full rows 4 feet high.
My stacks are 4'6" because i cut wood 22 inches long and never bothered to figure out how much loss there is in 2 inch pieces, but that 6" taller has to add up to more than the the 2 " pices combined.
The bark up sheds water from bark to bark and allows the wood to air dry in the weather.
Other places make a bee hive pile, but that isn't the way it is here, since we'er yankee. And other places just make a 52 stick mess.
When I was down south I heard a term called ricks, but I never did get that idea understood. I also heard 'face cord', which turned out to be a part of a cord. I can't say I understand the meaning of that well either, but I was left with the idea it was like my 22 inch cut wood stacked 8 feet long, and 4 feet high, for 2 rows, which could varry from 16 inch cuts to 22 inch, with no effort to replace the missing wood, mainly to feed a short wood stove, or kitchen wood stove that will not take long logs.
On that, the stove the wood i cut for is 27 inches max inside. I won't cut wood at 26 inches for that since it is possible to get wood stuck, and I have. I have been stuck with wood that will not go in and will not pull back out for a while, and that lets smoke get in the building, and is a tad risky. IMO even 24 inch logs is a little to risky, so my error is up to 23.5 inch by the method I cut.
I'll get a picture of a yankee stack
Me: I tawk funny and you all know it. I won't cut today since I am lame. But I won't be tomorrow. I'l go move metal or something instead. Got a 1 foot sander drum off the Bismark rusted bull tight to a shaft that must come apart pretty soon. What a mess that machine is. The Bismark to me is a 1 ton belt sander machine made to grind glass. A water chlorine flush runs all the time the machine is on and that mix eats carbon steel, so when I say rust I really mean it. This thing looks like it sat in the English Channel 65 years.
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