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Welcome back to DayCreek.com. Daycreek.com was originally established in 1997 to chronicle our cordwood house-building adventure here in southeast Minnesota.
For those wondering, we love our cordwood house and can’t say enough good things about the house and living out in the sticks. It’s been a blast and hope to bring many more journal entries and videos to you as we move forward in our continuing adventure!
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The Second Great Wall of Cordwood
With the help of Jo, we got the second wall complete (Another 7' x 54' wall). That now makes about 24 face cords of wood stacked. I estimate that we have about another 4 to 5 more to go. That puts us real close to what we will need for our total requirements. Until we...
The Great Wall of Cordwood
With my measly kerosene heater in hand, I was able to stack the first row of wood. The wall is 8' high and almost 54' long. It's necessary to stack the wood for a few of reasons. The first reason is to determine really how much wood I've got. Although the wood was...
Well, so much for being neatly stacked…
Somewhere behind the pile of wood is what was the nicely stacked wood. The wood shown here is two truck loads worth of wood (24' long Ryder truck). We didn't have time to stack the wood because... The plan was to get the wood moved into the shed on Saturday and stack...
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