Never said I wanted to drop it...I simply made the offer to drop it if you wanted to...but with a 4+ paragraph response, I'm guessing you don't want to. A stick of softwood...yeah, maybe...a 22" long x 6" Oak split like I burn...no way...at least not any deeper than on the surface. I have plenty of 3 (+) year old splits to check for the "outside" part of your test...but since my house is sitting at 50% moisture right now... not gonna be able to pull off the inside part of the test. And I can't imagine living in a house with single digit moisture levels in the wintertime...my hands dry up, crack, and bleed at 20%! Bottom line is this, I just brought this up to point out for others reading this down the road, burning green wood out of a pile is generally a bad idea...but obviously there are people that make it work...
Backwoods Savage, JPDavis and Screwloose those are great lists but they all seem to be missing somewhere take a bunch of ibuprofen before and after and when done a drink or 2.
I've done it...my firebox is taller than it is deep...I had some longer splits, so I stood 'em in there on end! FYI, they burn gooder standing up too!
One thing about this site is....to promote safe burning practices. We all shake our heads about the risk involved with the cutting of wood and burning it in the same season. These are the same guys that you see each Oct scrambling to get some wood into their piles to make it through winter. Advisable? No. Can you get it to burn? Yeah. Safe? Ask the firemen attending chimney fires due to the creosote buildup. Since the introduction of the new EPA stoves, we have grown wiser and become better educated to the safe practice of burning...some of us have known this years earlier and applied it to non-EPA stoves also. Point is, we strive to share this information with others.
Well, it’s nice to know you can put those chicken legs up for a minute and pound out some Yooper common sense! Well said also, Dave.
Even if you disregard the safety issues of green unseasoned wood burning it is still a pita. Hard to light, Smokey, glass soots up, air needs to be wide open, use MORE wood........ my spray bottle of glass cleaner is like 5+ years old ! I sometimes wonder if shifting from a "safety sermon" (that people tend to ignore) to a economic one would have more affect.
I could agree with the drink or 2 after the work is done. I'm not sure I agree with all these folks taking the ibuprofen though.
I think I may know this fella. yep, we quit putting water in the air because I made it rain, not cool. RH will now get down to 11-14% in extended cold weather. Right now it's 16% with daytime temps the last couple days being around 30° and nighttime temps dropping to 8-10°. Warm air escaping up high leads to cold/dry air entering....aka stack effect. This is what leads to the low humidity.
Every now and then, I'll put a round in the OWB that ends up in that configuration. I used to tip them over and get them horizontal, but man, those things sure have gotten heavier the last few years...once its in and on the coals, its good!
I cut smaller rounds with a buzzsaw so the ends are pretty square. Frequently I will stand up a load but a horizontal log is needed in front. Without it as the logs burn they can tip over and hit the glass. Then you open the door pick up the burning wood off the floor.... Don't ask me how I know..
Well hey there...how ya doin?! Ears burning? Wasn't gonna name names...but yeah, was talking about your situation as an example of a leaky/dry air house. My brothers buddy builds custom super-insulated homes...he says you can almost heat 'em with a candle...and they have NO low moisture issues in the wintertime. Although when you get 'em as tight as they do, then they have other issues...like having to install a fresh air intake, with a heat exchanger unit on it.
I dont want to quote posts.. 1.) 6% humidity level in your home... Well, thats beyond unhealthy, and your interior finishes would be falling apart rapidly. Optimum humidity health wise is 50%... 2.) my home is just about 10yrs old. Its the gold seal of efficiency for being built in 2008/2009.... I have a pretty badazz hvac system with multiple thermostats that have several sensors throughout the home to monitor different things, and humidity is one. The more sealed up the home is, the better u can hold humidity. When Im cranking the woodstove for weeks, no heat pumps running at all.. 30% is the absolute lowest I have seen the humidity in the home. 6%... Ur skin would be peeling off in huge chunks, like a lettuce probably.
I'd be happy if I was able to keep the house at the recommended RH based on outside temp Why your windows sweat | AmeriSpec Home Inspections
Hope you dont hire him to inspect a home for you. Its real easy to google the optimum humidity level in a home and you would see from numerous sources he's incorrect....
