How Stinky Are Your Stacks?

Personally I like Elm and the way it burns......hydraulics makes it more liveable to split too.

 

This winter, I took down a tree of heaven that yielded nearly a cord of stink wood. It is finally starting to settle down. Since the stack is not near the house it doesn't cause trouble. Should be fine by the time I burn it.

 

That depends ;
I belong to PETA :
" People Eat Tasty Animals "

 

Odor could be the mix of several types seasoning together.
Prime time drying lots of wood drying odors mixing.

That; or up wind ,
someone is spreading manure on their fields ?


Can't say about pignut hickory, it may be a smelly wood during seasoning.

It is a stringy wood.

 

LOL. A few years back my brothers girlfriend was complaining that she thought a large dog had dropped a loaf near the side door of our cottage. I looked but couldn't find anything ....then a day or two later I figured out she had been smelling my stack of fresh split red oak

Just smelt like fresh split red oak to me

 

Red oak smells like sulfur to me.

 

I have a cat who finds those rather tasty. She starts eating at the head end and eats about half of it and I throw the rest away.

 

Usually my stacks are a lot of oak so they usually smell like oak, this year I haven't cut much oak, I have walnut, black birch and ash, smells good. I know I'm not the only one that takes a walk through my stacks every night to smell and admire my wood.

 

Me too. I pick up a split and check for cracks. Not much yet, but the splits are still too fresh. Watched paint never dries.

The wood pile seems to be attracting the mosquitos, especially towards the end of the day. The wood will dry soon enough. After 6 months depending on split size and variety, there should be some decent check marks. I'm thinking that even oak would be ready to burn if split small enough after 6-9 months.

 

My wood pile is gonna stink again. Three more of the little bazzards this week.

 

I just processed an decent amount of Siberian Elm from my son in laws tree. Storm damage so I took it off his hands. Was surprised how much it resembled American Elm in both weight and stringiness. But it was green and holy molly does it stink. It's almost like I went around the neighborhood and collected all the cat pizz and soaked the wood in it. I think it's already starting to die off but that first wiff Next in line to process is a pile of fresh Mulberry I picked up. Wonder how that smells?

 

My pile has been split and stacked for a month. The sun is starting to check the wood, and the smell is largely gone.

 

I sniffed my hickory stack when I checked on my garden. It smelled good.