Probably not but burn what you have to...The oak will hiss at you and be ornery like Dennis's wife....
Welcome aboard Thomas! Nice load of rounds there. You'll like hanging out around this fire pit Theres a great bunch of people here.. Its sounds like you like all things firewood so youre in the right group!!
A month and half ago, during the hot duration of the summer, you'd have been sitting pretty. But you burn what you got and just keep a close eye on stuff. Keep cutting, and splitting and stacking, you'll get there... I'll be down in your neck of the woods in late Sept./early October down at Chadwick with the ATV's hopefully...
Yeah that one was intense. I had just walked in from playing with my new moisture meter when it hit. Wish I had used that time to cover my stack...
Maybe longer if you store it in the garage, right Dennis? There's a picture of that very scenario around here somewhere's...... I think TurboDiesel might have it PERMANENTLY bookmarked
I bet if he split some of that in half it would. It really comes down to how much surface area you expose per cord. Like if you have 1000 splits in one cord vs 500 it will dry much quicker. Just making up numbers but you get the idea. Nice big splits are great when you are 3 years ahead like Dennis and I. However, it's not going to work well for you burning with only 1-2 years of seasoning. It will also help when you are burning to bring the wood into the stove room as far ahead of time as you can. This gets the wood up to room temperature and dehumidifies it as much as possible before going in the stove.
The dead stuff might be ready a bit sooner than the 3 year plan, but ya' gotta' get it split and stacked pronto. Put it where it'll get plenty of sun and wind (mostly wind), and check it next fall.
^^^this^^^ I've found this makes a huge difference !!! Even when I get it off of a covered dry stack!
Backwoods Savage has been a good sport about this.... We'll call it, "the split that got "not totally seasoned" inside of 4 years." Meh, it happens! But, who doggies, was it ever fun to give Dennis a good ribbing over it. He fought right back, folks! Don't let his signature fool ya's, he's as ornery as the Ornery One- and I hope that never changes!
