Are there woods that will season in less then a year

Good idea. Is there any box elder where you are? That stuff will dry from green by next fall, if cut and stacked now. Around here, one could cut so much dead ash to last a lifetime, but you'd have to be able to store it. Here we have a lot of dead standing barkless elm, that as mentioned before, you can literally go from forest to stove the same day as long as you start up about 8-10' from the ground.

 

I didn't see anyone mention this, but splitting into smaller sized pieces can really make up for having less time to season if you have it stacked for a decent amount of time. I've got away with seasoning some hard maple and yellow birch cut in summer that was burnable by winter when I made my splits have the size of normal.

 

I also think smaller splits do make a difference as far as drying time.

 

This is paramount in this situation. You can't guess. The only way to know for sure is to take MM readings.

 

Hackberry?

 

Smaller dries faster for sure. That’s how I managed the switch from 3 conventional stoves to 3 epa stoves.
The more surface area the faster the drying. The more surface area the more dried wood as opposed to still green wood inside. The faster the burn too tho.

maybe we should ask what type of stove is in use? IMO the cats stoves hate wet wood more than most. The older cat stoves with ceramic combusters really hate it.

 

It starts. Dead standing ash and cherry that was dieing. 5 more dead standing ash to come out of this spot.

 

Slab wood offcuts from a mill gotta give a shout out to the great JBSAWMAN