Got the stove installed 3 weeks ago or so and I started burning 3 year old oak and got spoiled. After that was gone through, I switched to the stack of wood I had delivered last Fall. I keep seeing piles of globe-shaped light brown and amber particles on pieces of wood in that stack. After a google search for images based on my suspicion, it is indeed termite feces. Thinking about it all, the oak was in awesome shape; nice color, no dirt, split evenly and to uniform length. The cord of mixed hardwood I got delivered last fall looked good at the time, but about 1/3 of the wood had dirt on it and very unevenly split. Washed most of that all off and I stacked it all in your typical wood stack, one split on top of another on pallets.
So are the termites cause for concern? The stack is about 25 yards from the house. Wood to be burned throughout the day is kept on a wrought iron circular log holder on the front porch. The log holder is about 2 foot in diameter. The front porch is a concrete slab, the walls of the house are brick. I bring the wood straight from that log holder to the stove and in they go. If I bring too much in, that log or logs is put back outside on the log holder.
So are the termites cause for concern? The stack is about 25 yards from the house. Wood to be burned throughout the day is kept on a wrought iron circular log holder on the front porch. The log holder is about 2 foot in diameter. The front porch is a concrete slab, the walls of the house are brick. I bring the wood straight from that log holder to the stove and in they go. If I bring too much in, that log or logs is put back outside on the log holder.
