[Greenbuilding] wood shed

[RT]

On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 12:14:03 -0500, Frank Tettemer <frank at livingsol.com>  
wrote:

> haystack pile "Holz Hausen".

I have a neighbour who caught the Woodburner's Religion about 5 or 6 years  
ago when prices for fuel oil
had gone up and t'missus was looking for ways to reduce heating costs  
which , IIRC had ballooned to something like $1600 (ore more ?) per  
heating season for a not overly-large (2200 sf ?) and not overly  
old/decrepit structure (~20 yrs old, 2x6 /brick veneer walls,  
double-glazed low-e windows, trussed roof with R-40 or more etc.).

Being a desk jockey he welcomed the opportunity to cut/split wood and  
being a thrifty Scot, he opted to buy green logs by the 10 bush cord  
truckload (actually only about 7.5 bush cords or 22.5 face cords by the  
time it's cut and split).

Then he was faced with the problem of where to store all that wood once he  
had cut it up.

He put some in their garage but obviously that only provided a limited  
amount of space if it was still to function as a garage. Then the utility  
shed got called into service. Still not enough room . In the screened  
porch. In the boat shed .. and so on.

The situation reminded me of the Mr. Bean episode where Bean ordered Steak  
Tartare in some snooty restaurant, not knowing that it was raw ground meat  
and upon discovery of the reality, to avoid embarrassment, commenced to  
hide bits of the meat in every spot that he could find ... in the purse of  
a lady at an adjacent table, in the backside of a waiter's pants, in the  
sugar bowl etc.

Despite my prodding, my neighbour's been reluctant to build a bona fide  
woodshed (he even considered buying another of those portable car shelters  
(having bought one for his boat ... which subsequently collapsed due to  
eccentric loading by snow) just to avoid the building challenge (not that  
he's lazy, just that his digits seem to be mostly thumbs))

To cut a long story short, this past summer he built a Holz Hausen despite  
my chiding him that it was a bad idea and he was very proud of it ...  
until it collapsed one day , just barely avoiding landing on his wife .

Needless to say, he is banned from building future Holz Hausen (or at  
least until he gets a different spouse).

Rather than re-write a lengthy post describing my woodsheds and risk the  
wrath of those with functioning memories who have no interest in such  
matters, I'll have a look in the archives to see if I can find the message  
#... manana.

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Rob Tom
Kanata, Ontario, Canada

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