Are you kidding me dude? I don't know where you're coming from Did you read the thread? Tell me exactly how I'm burning wet wood. And what is all this stuff you added ? In this day and age of overpopulation and a need to minimize our impact on the earth, its resources and air quality, it is prudent for every one of us to burn wood as cleanly as we possibly can and one way to do our parts to reaching the goal of keeping the air quality at healthy levels is to burn clean dry wood
I get exactly what HDRock is saying. Two days of drying out already "Seasoned" wood is perfectly ok and clean burning. Definitely makes a difference when you bring in damp wood though.
I agree that we need to do our part in keeping the air and water clean; Victorian London's air was horrible due to all the coal burning that took place and look at Beijing China today. Wood is composed of lots of tubes; stacked upright those tubes might carry more water inside the wood. However, firewood stacked horizontally will see a lot of the rain run and drip off with a couple of days of rain. As HDRock mentioned, he had two windy days to help dry out the surface wetness of the wood. Now the poplar I cut at my sister's house was on the ground and we had five inches of rain to fall on it from the hurricane. We transported that wood last weekend here; I have split most of it. It was wet. The bark was loose and I knocked it off to expose the wood. I will stack that wood separately knowing that it is wet and test for moisture over time.
I thought that this was about how seasoned wood can be stacked out side without cover and still be dry enough to burn when being rained on and then allowing to be dried out. This is especially true in my part of the country. Just leave the politics somewhere else because I for one am not interested in hearing your environmental points of view.
And just last week I had a barn door (wood barn and wood door) that I could barely get shut because it had swelled after all the rain and high humidity. But within a couple days all was well. But in those doors we are usually talking super dry and yes, humidity will make a difference but it will be a long ways from making your wood too wet to burn. Just like our barn door, wait a couple days after a big rain and it will be back to normal; sometimes just one day will be all that is needed.
I agree that wood rained on will dry out but no way it drys out in 2 days for me especially if it has bark on it.
This thread is bizarro world for me, a few short years ago I was told I was a fool (paraphrase) for not top covering my wood now it seems like many do not. I even had a link from woodheat.org but that was no stinking good either.
Couldn't find "bizarro" In the dictionary must be a noun , those who don't top cover firewood LOL There are times , I've been a bizarro too
We need a "love" button next to the "like" button. I've been meaning to take a minute to block all this alliance stuff off my Facebook too. It's like getting stuck in a really annoying conversation at a party.
Bizarro "The opposite of the real world. Good is evil, round is square, hello is goodbye." Dry wood is wet wood, smoke goes down instead of up and you can make up your own.
Good point , sorry I forgot to mention wood had no bark on it . Now, if you have some oak with an inch of punk on the outside it, is just like a sponge
I've never tried to wash my dishes with a piece of firewood nor have I ever put a sponge in my stove to figure out if it was damp.
Strange that nobody has mentioned the fact that if you leave a wet sponge out in the open air for a couple days it will eventually dry out and most likely burn like wood. So would that be "Proof that Sponge is a Wood" ....? As for my political views that nobody wants to hear, I don't have any, except that I firmly believe all politicians are corrupt, although some are a lot more corrupt than others, and others just make for much better satirical material. Which leaves me a tiny bit curious which one the American voters will choose to be their next leader. Good luck with that.
