[Greenbuilding] wood shed

[Sacie Lambertson]

great Rob Tom.  I knew you would come through.  S

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 12:19 PM, RT <archilogic at yahoo.ca> wrote:

> 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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