For a good while before joing TFHC I had studied wood and the seasoning / types of wood that are the best but on my way to work this morning I stopped by a little country restarant for breakfast. I was the first there but not long after that the regulars started coming in and one man I knew was pickung on a waitress about having trees down in her yard and I ask her what she was going to do with the wood. Lol she said burn it this winter they been down since may. She ask me if that was ok and I kinda backe out of the question and that was it. Oh and she did say they were oak, Question is There are very few people round here put this to a proven science and I am hearing people say as summer is going by that its about time to cut some wood for winter ant it. I have always benn 100% at any thing I do and I know im boarder line having some of my wood seasoned fo the winter but WOW why do they not know?? How do they make it, Got to end this but it blows my mind how green people burn woos. Its kinda like watching a person trading quarters for dollars. Are tall round any people like this ?
Sorry about the bad spelling but I can't wait to see what yall have to say about this and maybe some people yall see the same. One older manI work with tells me stories about the same stuff like people busting green oak and going right to the stove with it in the dead of winter. Glad we are all in better shape than that. lol Some people don't care about tomorrow and to beat all these are people have burned wood for years. Proud to be a member here and we should be proud we are not in that shape,
They bother me a lot less than the ones I have talked to that still don't both to cut ahead. I don't know how you can get into cutting wood without doing research, but maybe I'm just a info junkie.
You don't want it too dry or it will burn up too quick.....got have some green mixed in to get that long burn time......
I bet there are more than a few folks, who find this forum, read about seasoning wood for 3 years, scoff at that thought... and, never come back. I've cut and burned ash the same year. It burned... wasn't great... learned a lot. If it had been oak... those would have been some very long, cold winters.
Where I live there are a large number of wood burners and I don't discuss properly seasoning wood. Its a waste of time. "If your wood is too dry your stove will burn too hot."
Thank you GRIZ, this thread pretty much puts together all the old wives tales (wrong info) about burning firewood. Makes me chuckle. I've heard every one of the misinformed statements mentioned from various wood burners at one time or another. Have learned to offer what works great (what we know) only once, and then let it go if they "know better". Most remain steadfast in their old habits. Sheesh.
Burning dry wood is nothing new but ,apparently it is to some. You can't burn dry pine but you can burn other wet wood
Let's also say that being several years ahead is a good cushion if you get hurt or sick and can't process wood and for those of you who buy wood it helps if there is a shortage or a spike in the price
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350 gallons of water is what a coard of oak will lose from green to seasoned and I haft to disagree with mixing green wood to a well burning seasoned wood fire because it takes the heat of the fire to cook the water out of the green wood. From what I have seen burning eeasoned wood vs 1 year old wood you will get the heat from 1 stick of seasoned wood as you would get from 3 syicks of the greener wood. Don't take long to do the math. Do I want to cut 3 loads or 1 load for a months heat ?? I will take the 1 load every time lol
HDrock Im not sure what you are talking about but I learn thing every day and get amazed at those who don't.
