Does wood dry thru winter? test

Grabbed some misc pieces from the 2013 CSS stack.
Weighted & numbered them
Put them back in he stack.
Took 3 pieces to the basement to see how much faster they'll dry inside.

Now to remember to weigh them in the spring, & in the fall when they go into the shed.


green splits in basement:


stack

 

Couple more pics of the wood in the stack in case I forget where I put it

 

Need more pop corn, test ends Sept/Oct next year
If i can remember

 

Those smileys cost Scotty 10 cents each.

 

when will the offial 'after winter' weigh in be?

 

April or May , when the snow has melted.
Need to figure out a way to find this thread then ?

 

I know they dry out through the winter.
The splits that drop on my feet in August, same size hurts less in April, 'cause they're drier.

 

Used your test method this fall, toe nail almost all back now.

Not gonna finish the test in April or ever. (I hope) OUCH !

 

C'mon, take one for team. April is a ways off yet, you'll heal.

 

Write a reminder note on some birch bark and place it under a refrigerator magnet.

 

billb3, that was a good one!! and now, must wipe beer off of keyboard.

 

ray, there's only 52 boxes of popcorn there.
Sure that's enough?

 

Looks like you are a bark down stacker.

 

Actually no,
just the opposite, & have notice bark down to be better

Just the top cover is bark up, & some in the cross stacks, the wood under is bark down.
Birch bark is water tight, so I'm trying to use it as a little bit of a " top cover "

Wife took a while to get my plan when I said bark down, thought I was nuts. I
just agreed with her, & she stacked bark down. LOL

Some pictures of this years seasoning stack various times of the year:

 

I don't own a Moisture meter
Not sure I need one but for testing & to be able to throw out numbers
I might need one.

My conundrum is "IF" I had a MM,
& I split the wood to measure it in the spring,
How do I do the same measurement in the fall if the split has been split? LOL

Actually I might get one to test my hypothesis of
"the wood near the bark having more moisture than the wood in the middle of the split."

I'm thinking the water tight Birch bark is holding in moisture more than other wood types.

I mean it is real noticeable burn difference for equal size splits of 3 year & 2 years wood.
Visually at 3 years the bark is just starting to let loose of the wood in places.

Should've taken some weights the day it was split & stacked.
Then tracked them thru the 3 years.

Keeping the mind busy with useless information, but I'm nuts
Maybe some day I'll get published " Crazy BogyDave said "x " "