Do you enjoy building a fire in your fireplace on a cold winter evening?  If so, you know the value of dry, seasoned wood.  In order to keep your firewood dry, you need a firewood rack for your backyard.   The single most important thing you can do for your firewood is to keep it dry.  Most people don’t realize that by storing firewood on the ground they are allowing the ground’s moisture to seep into the firewood each and every day.  This perpetually wet wood will eventually form mold and rot.  But placing the wood in a log holder you raise it off the ground a few inches, and this makes all the difference.  Most firewood racks also come equipped with a cover to keep the rain and snow off as well.

Other benefits of a firewood rack system include better organization for your firewood, as well as a more pleasing sight than just seeing a haphazard stack of wood in your yard.  An organized firewood rack also keeps away pests such as ants, termites, snakes and rodents.  Ants and termites don’t want to climb up onto the wood if it isn’t on the ground, and rodents are naturally attracted to the small crevices that are found in most wood piles.  By organizing the wood, you eliminate those crevices and the rodents, as well as the snakes who like to hunt them.