What r ur opinions on...if a person was to stack green rounds in a metal shed on the south wall to cook. Would the heat drive the moisture out quick enuf to not worry about rot. Building is large enuf to not worry about condensation and in summer months it is just shy of being hot enuf to be a kiln or hell. Anyone tried it and had a m meter to verify results?
I like to split before stacking, since the wood won't dry well in rounds for a long time. However, in those conditions, it might not matter as much. Can you open doors for airflow?
It shouldn't rot but that is a poor way to keep wood. Split it then stack it. Also remember that heat is not enough by itself to dry wood. You need air circulation and that will dry wood faster than heat unless it is a hot kiln. But no matter what, you need air to move otherwise how will you get the moisture out? But stack in rounds if you have to but make sure there is some air circulation and there will be no rot. I ran into some not that many years ago that had been inside a barn in rounds for 18 years. Wood was fine.
Should work but will take a while to season well enough to burn it. Air circulation will help a lot. Let us know how it works out
Not sure what you are burning, but lodgepole atleast one year, rounds gets pretty dry in No Colo out in the open. Heck, some of our rounds are small enough they don't even get split, if they are dry, and they fit, they get burned.
Some types of wood will dry out better than others when left in the round. Some like birch and poplar never seem to dry out, at least outside of a kiln. That being said, the normal rule of thumb still applies. The smaller you split it, the faster it will dry. You might fit more in the shed if it's split up too.
This is the same building that I mentioned in another post having permission to stack in. It is far from air tight. I was just wundrun if I was in for a train wreck of rot or if it wood be a way to get a jump on getting ahead by dryin and cuttin rounds all summer and not spendin time splittin til cold hits. I have a year ahead already split. Just a thought to do as much cutting as possible before snow flies and then with rounds partially dry split under roof while snow piles up outside. Then the splits sit n get cooked a summer before burnin. Just wood hate to cut rounds n 6-9 months later crack open blocks of rot mold mulch yuck and have nothing for my work and be even further behind.
I doubt it'll rot. I doubt it'll dry much either. If you're just wanting to keep them until this fall to split, I don't think it'll matter if they're outside or inside, just try to stack them off the ground either way.
You should have almost ideal conditions for drying wood there. In that, we envy you. But when we think about all that wind.... Dang it can get cold there!
Was just snowing yesterday. My main concern was not hitting fast forward on punk rot with a big dose of heat while in the round, wasn't hoping to gain a lot of dry just more of being able to make the most of my time by being able to juggle tasks and time of year.
