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.

Stacking firewood is pleasant work. It’s quiet and even contemplative. The hard and sometimes dangerous work of felling trees and bucking them with a chainsaw is done. The laborious splitting by hand ...

When you need to run outside and grab some firewood, it might seem ideal to have it stacked against your house. After all, you're trying to stay warm! But this is the last place you should be stacking ...

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 ...