firewood rack placement

The following is an encyclopedic glossary of traditional English-language terms used in the three overarching cue sports disciplines: pocket billiards (pool), which denotes a host of games played on a table with six pockets; carom billiards referring to the various carom games played on a table without pockets; and snooker, played on a large pocket table, and which has a sports culture unto itself distinct from pool. There are also hybrid pocket/carom games such as English billiards.

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The term "billiards" is sometimes used to refer to all of the cue sports, to a specific class of them, or to specific ones such as English billiards; this article uses the term in its generic sense unless otherwise noted.

The labels "British" or "UK" as applied to entries in this glossary refer to terms originating in the UK and also used in countries that were fairly recently part of the British Empire and/or are part of the Commonwealth of Nations, as opposed to US (and, often, Canadian) terminology. The terms "American" or "US" as applied here refer generally to North American usage. However, due to the predominance of US-originating terminology in most internationally competitive pool (as opposed to snooker), US terms are also common in the pool context in other countries in which English is at least a minority language, and US terms predominate in carom billiards as well. Similarly, British terms predominate in the world of snooker, English billiards and blackball, regardless of the players' nationalities.

The term "blackball" is used in this glossary to refer to both blackball and eight-ball pool as played in the Commonwealth, as a shorthand. Blackball was chosen because it is less ambiguous ("eight-ball pool" is too easily confused with the related "eight-ball"), and blackball is globally standardized by an International Olympic Committee-recognized governing body, the World Pool-Billiard Association (WPA); meanwhile, its ancestor, eight-ball pool, is largely a folk game, like North American bar pool, and to the extent that its rules have been codified, they have been done so by competing authorities with different rulesets. (For the same reason, the glossary's information on eight-ball and nine-ball draws principally on the stable WPA rules, because there are many competing amateur and even professional leagues with divergent rules for these games.)

Foreign-language terms are generally not within the scope of this list, unless they have become an integral part of billiards terminology in English (e.g. massé), or they are crucial to meaningful discussion of a game not widely known in the English-speaking world.

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How to Integrate a Firewood Rack into Your Privacy Fence


Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Things You’ll Need:

  • Two 8 foot pressure-treated 4 by 4's
  • Four 10 foot 2 by 4's
  • Four 31 inch 2 by 4's
  • Gravel or small stones
  • Nails
  • Basic woodworking tools
  • Post hole digger
Step1
Choose an 8 foot section of your privacy fence that has two adjacent 4 by 4 posts exposed on your side of the fence. Dig two post holes that are opposite each of these posts, so that these new posts will be 12 inches from the existing fence posts. The holes should be dug about 18 inches deep.
Step2
Put each of the two posts in the holes, measure and then remove and cut them so that they will end up the same height as the existing fence posts. Replace the posts in the holes and pour loose gravel or small stones into the holes around the posts. While using a level, tamp down the gravel or stones around the posts until they are set firmly.
Step3
2 by 4 Placement 2 by 4 Placement Nail 31 inch pieces of 2 by 4 braces across the outside ends of the new posts and the existing fence posts. These should be placed about 8 inches above the ground and then again 25 inches above the former. Finally, cut to length four 2 by 4's that will form the cross bars that the firewood will sit on. Nail these onto the existing fence posts and on the inside of the new posts, at the same heights as the braces. See photo.
Step4
Covered Firewood Covered Firewood You can now begin stacking your wood on the 2 by 4 rails. Logs or split firewood fits nicely without damaging the fence, and can be sorted on the two levels based on size or age. You can keep your wood dry by easily covering the wood with a tarp, using a few roofing nails through the corners of the tarp into the posts.