Fast seasoning time... I don't burn pine but might try it. I've seen red maple mentioned as one that seasons fast. What else that you like? Oak is great but takes years to season. Around here, just about everybody uses oak but a very large percentage do not season their wood! I see people selling wood often that was just recently cut!
Dead standing elm that the bark has fallen off and when better if it's got longitudinal cracks in it . It might be a bit stringy, but this is stuff that you can burn pretty much right after splitting it. Well at least once you go up a few feet ( 6-10 or so) from the ground. The rest of the lower part of the trunk is good for the next season. It sure burns nice, and I can't think of another tree that puts out ~20 mbtu a cord that you can burn the same day as splitting, unless you find the holy Grail dead standing oak that's under 20% mc.
This too. Especially if it's an EAB killed tree. The eab send to dry the wood out quicker than if the ash was healthy.
Very cool, I was wishing for sorting as I viewed it and then noticed that it IS sortable by clicking on the heading!
I had great success last year with Ash and Silver Maple. Had both split for 1 summer only and they were bone dry by fire season.
most softwoods season rather quickly although ive only burned pine once years back. Red maple does season faster. I scored some red maple rounds back in February. Fresh cut green. I SS in March and put a MM to some splits last week. Most were in the upper teens. I have some rounds from the same source/same time cut that i acquired in August. I SS then. Wonder what the % is. Ill have to check. Most shoulder season wood dries fast too.
Cottonwood I had split I believe by mid-July stacked for at least 3 months. It’s not quite ready yet but from the time that I had split it to now, it’s weighing a great deal less than it was. Not ready but if it were put in a pit it might burn alright. Red cedar here seems to season very fast but a year helps keep the resins at a minimum. You’re likely to have better outcomes as using it for kindling but for a bigger fire, cedar works well on a pit with a screen cover for spark and flying ember protection. Cherry here does season well but best cut it during the spring well before summer. Most woods here need a year but more is always better.
