I confess! Im guilty. Started splitting some old white oak rounds...ffresh cut green from June of 2021! I staged these in a PA I no longer use at the time. I had stored and stacked wood there, mostly BL, but abandoned it as access is through a yard that's often extremely muddy so I was only able to get there when dry or frozen, so I was at the mercy of mother nature. The heartwood still good, but as is the case with oak the sapwood is punk. Maybe 3/4 yet to split. Lots of BL still stacks along with a cords worth of rounds to split. It was a good idea at the time as my friend offered it to me.
It does happen...if I took some of the area above my mom's house, where we dumped logs for awhile, I would probably be kicked off FHC. Some is from a tree service, other we brought in...there is some WO that I'm sure the heartwood is good, some other need to go to
I can’t stand when I drive by a customers house weeks/months after I delivered wood only to see it still sitting where I dumped it full of leaves and such.
