Drying wood on top of stove

NATE379 said:

Perhaps, though I'm not scurred of a spider or 2.

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Me either, they only take little bites.

I keep a rack of wood beside the stove, so I have maybe two days of wood nice and dry. It would be nice to have two of them so that I could dry the wood in one rack while burning the wood in the other, but there is only so much room near the stove.

Under the wood rack I find all sorts of sawdust, dirt, and pieces of bark. It seems to me that one problem with drying wood on top of the stove would be small bits of flammable stuff falling onto the hot stove top and stinking or smoking, if not actually catching fire.

I have a rack that sits next to the stove .
Its 16x16 x 48" high .
The rack sits 12" from the stove and the wood drys fast .
My welder made it for me .
John

Alan -

I have had a few incidents in my 16 years of burning that make me more cautious about safety, and less inclined to store wood near my stove.

Others say they stack wood somewhere inside. Personally, I find far too many insects and moths are brought in that way. I wished at one point I had built a container into the exterior wall of my house with an iron door, so I could pass wood directly through the wall. Maybe for my next house.

Personally, I would give up on the dream of storing fuel above a burning fire :-/

Don

Wood Duck said:

{snip}Under the wood rack I find all sorts of sawdust, dirt, and pieces of bark. It seems to me that one problem with drying wood on top of the stove would be small bits of flammable stuff falling onto the hot stove top and stinking or smoking, if not actually catching fire.{snip}

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Excellent point. Wood = dirt and dust. That stuff falling on a woodstove is a hazard in and of itself.

some of you are very safe. In fact, I have quit farting around my woodstove now in case of spontaneous combustion risk

This is a test thread, RIGHT? :gulp: