Drying cover

[DixieReb31]

What, other than tin, do you use to cover your air drying stacks?

[DixieReb31]

Does anyone use tarps?

[doc henderson]

I have used plywood painted or covered with plastic.  I have use gray tarps, pulled up on the edges, and down for a hard rain.  I strap my piles and actually run a few screws into the strapping boards.  

[Southside]

Tarps are not a good idea. If it's pine I will throw some dog boards on the top of the stack, keeps the beating sun off and enough of the rain

[Magicman]

 

 
I recommend metal roofing but these got black "visqueen".  Notice the dunnage that was being laid across the whacks to separate the plastic from the lumber and allow air flow.  Using clear plastic would create a greenhouse and I can only imagine what would grow underneath.

[D6c]

I use pole barn siding screwed to 2x4s that overhang the stack a foot or so and weigh it down with block or old tractor tires.  I don't think anything else would stay on on the wind I get, and have had them blow off anyway.

[DixieReb31]

Thanks for the replies.  I've run out of tin and with the current prices for new tin I prefer not to buy tin.  But around here 1/2" OSB is $47 a sheet!  Prices for building materials has got out of hand!  Someone is getting rich!

[Larry]

Got chickens there?  Around here they seem to tear down the old houses every few years and sometimes the used tin is cheap.