Every wood you burn must be dried before burning. Pine oak hack berry or otherwise. Last year being or first year in our house I didn't have a choice but to burn fresh cut ref and white oak. It was a NIGHTMARE for starters the guy who I bought the semi load from skids everything out off the woods and it was all covered in mud and frozen should by the time I realized it on top of remodeling a house trying to catch up financially and staying on top of snow abd the coldest year I've ever seen inn or first year in our first house with a quarter mile driveway to be plowed wet firewood was the tip of the iceberg. Wet wood at least inn a OWB leaves zero coals. I don't know how many fires I had to restart last year. I was rather grumpy last winter because of all of it. Let that hack berry (and everything else for that matter) dry for a summer or better and be miles ahead
Appreciate the advise, right now I don't even own a woodburener, waiting on the shop to be finished, and budget to allow, so everything I cut will have plenty of time to season, I'll be lucky to get everything done by next winter, but until then I can hoard it, trees blew over, and need saved...lol
Awesome! That's my favorite kind of firewood! Firewood that wasn't even cut down just being rescued of the ground!sounds like you'll have a lot better game plan than I did last year lol
By default, about 95% of what we burn is Hackberry. It's never left us cold, and can last up to four years when properly c/s/s. Also, from green, it can be burned in 12 months after c/s/s. Most of what we burn has been standing dead for 2-4 years, so it tends to have MC 16-20% right away.
Yes I feel a case of CAD coming on too, all my money is going to the shed/shop for a while, so it will have to wait, but until then I can annoy everyone with new guy questions and dream.....
I find up here hackberry is a pretty good wood, but if split larger takes a long time to season. Some of it in my stacks has taken nearly 3 years before it was prime. I have some 4 year old stacked rounds 2-5" still hovering 20-22 % moisture. Granted these trees were cut down green from an ice storm and not standing dead.
Went and cut some more :-( of the Hack today, thought after being on here I was developinCAD, but I bought three new chains for the 170 and after putting one on I think I am temporarily cured... besides the faster I cut the sooner I have to start carrying it to the truck..lol. teenage son came in handy today.
