I call BS try this with birch and your wood will rot before it dries. Maybe with pine BUT not at my home
It does not make sense to me, unless your are just storing it to split for another day or have an OWB. You still have to split it, why wait till winter to do it? So many other factors come into play cold, rain, snow, equipment failure (if using hydro), etc... Also don't you want to just head to the woodshed or wood rack and just grab splits to feed your stove vs. having to split that round into sizable splits for the stove? I'd also throw in drying times perhaps, I am sure a round of oak will take longer to dry vs. that same round being split.
Last year I did have a stack of rounds that had sat for nearly a year before splitting. I split it and put it directly in the back of the wood shed last Summer. Just now getting to it and it seems to burn fine. Granted, this was mostly Alder which seasons faster than some of the other wood available. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
Yep, I think the regional (and wood type) differences make it work for him, but not as well with humid-area hardwoods.
Well if you don't like a man's ideas that has been in the logging industry for years I'm pretty sure you wouldn't like how I season fire wood.
He probably stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night, too. There's far too much mis and disinformation on Youtube and AI is making it ten times worse. Youtube makes $$$$$ so don't look to them to reign it in. All you can do is stop watching.
