Has anyone found a technique to dry Oak in a year ?

I agree with jo191145 .

 

So I assume you aren't regularly wrapping up your wood?

 

Greenhouse

 

HA.HA.HA, !

 

Make splitter trash out of it all. I keep my splitter trash in open trash cans from when I split in early spring and it's what I start using in fall for kindling.

 

Good responses,thanks.

 

I do what I call “slabbing” first, depending on the round size split the rounds in half. Then slab the 1/2 rounds into 2-2.5” slabs. This with the summer heat/wind helps to dry it pretty fast. But, I do that with pretty much all my wood. It stacks pretty good as well.

 

You have just gave the best advice on how to burn not so dry wood, you burn it hot. Battenkiller did some tests on hearth and had no trouble with creosote burning wet wood in that fashion.
Been burning a lot of oak for over 40 years, some dead some live when cut, if its dead you could burn it in a year but better to leave it longer in most cases and you will be satisfied with the results.
They have given you options to try but best to get ahead and start checking moistue levels after two years, of course we could start a discussion about how its stacked but a rabbit hole for another day.

 

Sage advice.

 

I split most of my wood into roughly 4x4. The oak may be ready to burn in 1.5 years depending on initial moisture and time of year it was cut.

I cut up a standing dead oak last week. Owner said it was standing dead for years. Outer inch is soft and punky. The rest is hard as ever and completely wet. I have not split it all yet, it's sitting as rounds in the sun. A week has made a huge difference in the standing dead oak.

Same forest I was cutting a 3 year old storm blown hickory. I got about half way through my initial cut at the root ball end and water came gushing out for half a minute. There was only about 3 foot of noticable center rot in the trunk. The rest must have come from the roots. That wood is as wet as it was 3 years ago.

Oak won't get burned for at least 2 years. Based on the last 2 years wood needs I'm working on year 2 and 3 now. Maybe this summer/fall I will build a roof over my wood pile. Not really a shed, I want air to flow but have 18" to 24" over hang to keep rain off. Wood pile is on old summer kitchen/ porch slab 30' long. Should make 3 good 10' bays. Want to add a forth bay to store wood splitter out next to the pile. 4th bay will have walls and possibly a door to keep tools from walking off.