All, I had a very nice stash seasoned that I burned through and sold. Now I'm at a new house and have a little over a cord of well seasoned which should be enough for the next month. However, after that I will be cutting and splitting with endless access given my buddy has a tree service. I plan on splitting small to decrease drying time, but it won't be till winter of 25 that the new wood will be reasonably well seasoned if I cut in May 24 (I'll likely avoid oak given how slow that seasons). My insert has secondary air tubes and a catalytic. My question is if wood is less than ideally seasoned, would I just be better next year to rely on the air tubes to get the heat out and engage the cat when I have 2 year seasoned hardwood? I don't want to ruin a catalytic and can just run a brush down the chimney after next season. My current wood has cut and split years ago, so I'm ok for now. View attachment 411100
Splitting smaller and if you have an area that just gets baked by summer sun, I think it’s possible to get most things seasoned besides something like green red oak. But lots of air flow (piles vs stacks) and top cover on and off with rain and maybe lay down pallets for air flow underneath. Might be a bit of an extreme amount of space but doable. That or save a bunch of hassle and buy seasoned wood for year one and sell off some unseasoned to off set the cost. I’ve sold wood from full logs to unseasoned rounds to bags of campfire wood
Tell your buddy to give you some Aspen or Pine if he comes across it. It will dry and be ready to burn in one Summer.
