It is important to season all firewood, depending on the variety of wood it may take from 6 months to 2 years. The way you stack and store it is also very important.
What if your wood gets rained on? Do you have to start over? We have ours stacked in a shed but it’s open on one side. Worries about termites now that I watched this but also worried about rain if it’s out in the open. Help!
A bit late but, if your shed is open on just one side I don't see any problems at all. If you check videos from homesteaders you see that they have their firewood out in the open. Don't forget that the wind is your friend in this case. Cheers
If you have something line a woodfired Pizza oven, you can use that to dry out wood. After you let burn down the fire the oven usually have 300 °C, tha tis good for Pizza. My parent have such an oven they first bake Pizza, then bread, then cake then cookies or beans and when the oven has reached below 150°C, they sometimes stack it full with wet wood. That dries out the wood with heat that otherwise would be unsuable, also it gets extremely dry, far dreyer than sundried wood. But watch out, if the oven is hotter than 150°C it can result in the wood starting to pyrolyse. The wood then can turn into char, burnable woodgas an tar, which might be toxic. Pyrolysis if it gets started is an exothermic process, so even if only one log pyrolyses it can get others to pyrolyse.
If you need to dry it out quickly or just to dry out some that got wet at the edges, but generally just try to be a year ahead of your needs and that way u won't need any special drying . As the lady says , keep the split wood off the ground. We have a concrete floored shed but still put down wood pallets first. New laws in Europe say wood must be below 20% moisture content after 2025 but really they plan to stop us entirely 😡 Enjoy that lovely wood burning aroma ☺️
This was more information than I've heard from other videos. Great work!
Great video. I used to watch all your videos. Glad to see you're back!
Thanks Ken
Very interesting. Thanks for the video
Well done. Thank you
What if your wood gets rained on? Do you have to start over? We have ours stacked in a shed but it’s open on one side. Worries about termites now that I watched this but also worried about rain if it’s out in the open. Help!
A bit late but, if your shed is open on just one side I don't see any problems at all. If you check videos from homesteaders you see that they have their firewood out in the open. Don't forget that the wind is your friend in this case. Cheers
Great video, thanks.
If you have something line a woodfired Pizza oven, you can use that to dry out wood.
After you let burn down the fire the oven usually have 300 °C, tha tis good for Pizza.
My parent have such an oven they first bake Pizza, then bread, then cake then cookies or beans and when the oven has reached below 150°C, they sometimes stack it full with wet wood.
That dries out the wood with heat that otherwise would be unsuable, also it gets extremely dry, far dreyer than sundried wood.
But watch out, if the oven is hotter than 150°C it can result in the wood starting to pyrolyse.
The wood then can turn into char, burnable woodgas an tar, which might be toxic.
Pyrolysis if it gets started is an exothermic process, so even if only one log pyrolyses it can get others to pyrolyse.
If you need to dry it out quickly or just to dry out some that got wet at the edges, but generally just try to be a year ahead of your needs and that way u won't need any special drying .
As the lady says , keep the split wood off the ground. We have a concrete floored shed but still put down wood pallets first. New laws in Europe say wood must be below 20% moisture content after 2025 but really they plan to stop us entirely 😡
Enjoy that lovely wood burning aroma ☺️
fiber saturation point is 28%.
I'm just getting around to some 4 year old Eucalyptus which is burning beautifully, it's a bitch to split so I just split the limbs, up to about 8".
A little salt and pepper should do the trick