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Stacking firewood against your house is convenient, but there might be a few reasons you'd want to avoid it. Here are the pros and cons of this wood storage.

How long does wood take to dry? Use this guide for wood stacking techniques and all you need to know to get the best well-seasoned firewood for your time and money. Firewood is better than money in ...

There's more than one way to stack a pile of firewood, and it's considered by some to be both a science and an art, as you have to stack it so there is some air circulation to ensure that the wood ...

A few weeks ago my neighbor and I were talking firewood. Specifically, we were talking about whether to stack with the bark up or the bark down. He’s a rugged, quiet, mid-western Norwegian type. “Well ...

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Residents take pride in their timber piles, debate best techniques News is obsessed with the flashy questions: “Is God Dead?” “Who Killed Kennedy?” “What is a Kardashian?” Yet for years, a quieter ...

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