How much emergency wood do you have stored?

Is it a man thing this wood storing? We haven't got an allotment and Himself can't DIY, but any spare bits of wood are put into the shed "just in case". We've even got a huge piece of worktop in there from when the kitchen was renovated 5 years ago. Strange.

I find it really difficult to throw away wood - I've got stacks in my garage from all sorts of leftover sources.

Some I have managed to recycle for shelves and suchlike around the house, and some I have intended to chop up for the fire (for the last 4 years!).

I'm not a natural hoarder - quite the opposite I'm always throwing stuff out or giving it away - but wood is somehow different.

Reminds me of this joke :
The Indians asked their Chief in Autumn if the Winter was going to be cold or not.
Not really knowing an answer, the chief replies that the Winter was going to be cold and that the members of the village were to collect wood to be prepared.

Being a good leader, he then went to the next phone booth and called the National Weather Service and asked, "Is this winter to be cold?"

The man on the phone responded, "This Winter is going to be quite cold indeed."

So the Chief went back to speed up his people to collect even more wood to be prepared. A week later he called the National Weather Service again, "Is it going to be a very cold winter?"

"Yes", the man replied, "it's going to be a very cold Winter."

So the Chief goes back to his people and orders them to go and find every scrap of wood they can find. Two weeks later he calls the National Weather Service again: "Are you absolutely sure that the
Winter is going to be very cold?"

"Absolutely," the man replies, "the Indians are collecting wood like crazy!"

francesbean

That iddy biddy pile of sticks pales into insigfnificance compared to mine!

I hope tomorrow to be transporting a 5 foot X 7 foot shed to my plot just to store wood for my greenhouse woodburner.
At present my wood is all over the plots and exposed to the elements, which makes it rot, rather than making it easier to split.
It might help me tidy up my plot and stop it looking like 'Steptoe's back yard' (Thats if I don't get sidelined into doing something else)

PS I luurve your pond though!

I have a two woodburners in the house ,one is cast iron & the other I married need I say more

My 'useable' wood pile has shrunk considerably as I've edged 2 beds in the last couple of weeks. But the 'this is a bit rotten, but still might be useful for something' pile has gotten just a bit bigger...