Hi Everyone, It has been raining heavy whole night and still raining. I woke up to an uncovered woodpile from the wind . They soaked from the rain Next few days will be around 40s without a rain until next Friday. Do you think the wood can recover and dry out if I leave them fully uncovered? The pile is 4x 8 rack.
Yes, a little rain on the already dry wood will be gone quickly if there is a decent breeze. I also suggest staging some wood near your stove to get it extra dry. You should be fine.
Likely just the top couple rows that are soaked. Yeah, keep the cover(s) off on sunny/windy days and they'll dry right back out. Edit: So I look out across the yard and there's one of my fiberglass panels I use for a cover across the yard. From here can't see which stack is naked. It's pretty windy here and raining hard enough I'm not going out . The loose panel doesn't look like it is going to blow away any further.
A few inches of rain isn't going to do much to seasoned wood. Just leave it uncovered a few sunny and windy days then cover it back up.
Wood is not a sponge unless it is punky already and in that case, it is fit for the brush pile. Your wood should be fine.
I had some poplar get wet so I brought it inside by the stove. 2 weeks later still super wet under the bark. The stuff with no bark seems fine. Any thoughts?
Scandalous post alert: I don’t cover my wood at all. At all, until it goes in the shed to be burned that year. Your wood will be fine.
Not all of it is soaked as the top layers will gradually deflect the rain. You can pull some from a dry layer and give the rest of it some time to breathe.
If it has bark on it, it is not going to dry out very quick , The inside of the wood will be fine , If There is no bark on it it will dry out in couple days
This Edit: I did this before I had a 3 foot high cross stacked , stack , On both sides of the stove , About 10 inches from the stove , Use one stack while the other stack is drying When it is gone replace ,Then use the other stack, Keep alternating. Leave a little air space between each split as you stack it
I'm glad this wasn't a "the wood pile fell on my wife's car" or "the wood pile fell over on ME and I was hurt" thread !!! It'll dry off soon enough. As others have said...put some near (but not too close) to the wood stove. It'll dry out and add a little humidity to the house at the same time. A few days of wind and no rain will have the rest of it taken care of.
You may notice the splits on top swell a little bit from absorbing the rain water like a sponge as plywood and MDF so readily do but it will release the unbound water quite readily with drying winds .
I have found that dry wood can absorb water and take quite a while to dry out. I had red maple that was 20 percent and then shot up tovthe 30’s after a prolonged wet early spring. It took about a month to dry out to original condition. In this case if one rainstorm, I’d say the wood would be back to normal after about one day of nice dry weather.
You get much more rain than we do. Still, I've had wood laying on the ground and getting lots of rain but it still burned good after a week.
