The Zen of Stacked Wood

Although the temptation when log splitting is to do pie slices or triangles, I quickly learned that these do not stack well. The optimal shape for me is square. We cut the large logs into halves and then "slabbed " the halves so that we could then split the slabs into square logs.



Then the stacking becomes a lincoln log project rather than an engineering project.
We only split about half of the wood, keeping the larger pieces for seating. Gawd knows where we would have put the split wood had we kept going. The large pieces - 18" long by 18"-24" diameter give enough wood when split for one of the piles up against the fence - a lot of wood.