The Wood Stack

So much work went into this and the outcome strangely satisfying that i really did feel it deserved a post.....On a sunny Sunday afternoon in June it was finally time to get serious about splitting and stacking wood for the fast approaching woodfiring scheduled for 9th July.


There had been a delivery of milled pine from Penrose State Forest just sitting near the wood kilns at Sturt for a while and we could no longer ignore the fact that the logs needed to be slip and stacked before the 4 day Anagama woodfing. 


So I wasn't the one operating the chainsaw but I was stacking the split pine. This wood had been sitting out in the rain for a number of weeks and so we really needed to dry it out. I found the structure and colours of this stack very appealing.....so much so that I have started some drawings based on this very wood stack.   
  

Lines, colour, light and dark

The thiner, longer pieces of wood for the side stocking during the firing 

An afternoon well spent....this is only a small portion of it.