Here is our wonderful woodshed, which was constructed earlier this year, now nearly full after an entire day with a rented wood splitter and another day to stack the pieces.
A handsome building! And there's nothing nicer to see in the fall than firewood felled, bucked, and split. I've been working in my woods bringing down maple and ash for next year, cutting it to length--but I have not yet brought out MY amazing Fiskars ax.
How far from the house are you when it comes time to feed the fire? My wood is dumped higgledy-piggledy in the cellar, and there is a certain amount of moral fiber (and ignoring lumbar pain) required to haul armloads of it up from the cellar (dodging MY wonderful Fonzabellissima on the stairs....)
The shed is in the back of the back yard. It's not so far. I usually load up the wheelbarrow and bring it to the deck steps, then carry loads of wood in through the deck door that's right by the stove. Three or four wheelbarrows of wood can be stacked next to the stove. I'd love to bring in more each time, but there really is no good place to keep it. (The garage stays too damp to realistically store wood (plus no circulating air).)
We rented an old farmhouse in Unity Maine for a few years--classic New England attached architecture: big house, little house, back house, barn. Not to mention (all connected so you could run the farm without worrying about snow): ice house, carriage shed, toolhouse, workshop, two holer, horse stable, and a woodshed of a size to store enough wood to feed two cookstoves (summer kitchen, winter kitchen) and four round oak parlor heaters.
A handsome building! And there's nothing nicer to see in the fall than firewood felled, bucked, and split. I've been working in my woods bringing down maple and ash for next year, cutting it to length--but I have not yet brought out MY amazing Fiskars ax.
How far from the house are you when it comes time to feed the fire? My wood is dumped higgledy-piggledy in the cellar, and there is a certain amount of moral fiber (and ignoring lumbar pain) required to haul armloads of it up from the cellar (dodging MY wonderful Fonzabellissima on the stairs....)
The shed is in the back of the back yard. It's not so far. I usually load up the wheelbarrow and bring it to the deck steps, then carry loads of wood in through the deck door that's right by the stove. Three or four wheelbarrows of wood can be stacked next to the stove. I'd love to bring in more each time, but there really is no good place to keep it. (The garage stays too damp to realistically store wood (plus no circulating air).)
We rented an old farmhouse in Unity Maine for a few years--classic New England attached architecture: big house, little house, back house, barn. Not to mention (all connected so you could run the farm without worrying about snow): ice house, carriage shed, toolhouse, workshop, two holer, horse stable, and a woodshed of a size to store enough wood to feed two cookstoves (summer kitchen, winter kitchen) and four round oak parlor heaters.