Seasoning Question

Put your left foot in the air and shake it all around! :coolhmm:

I thought rain storms split and went around stacks of Doug Fir?

Nothing stops Doug Fir.

Bigg_Redd said:

Will the light rainfall stop my wood from seasoning? Or perhaps accelerate it?

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It may. I've no experience with Douglas Fir, but the way I see it, Fir is already 3/4 of the way to fire; All you have to do is add an "e." I think you'll be OK by Fall.

Bigg_Redd said:

I've got about 2 cord of green Doug Fir split and stacked in my back yard. Last night it rained lightly. Will the light rainfall stop my wood from seasoning? Or perhaps accelerate it?

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I've got 3 cords of Fir and 1 cord of maple stacked uncovered as well, the rain is not going to help it or hurt it either way, I will keep it stacked untill next spring when I have room to put it in my covered wood storage area that is full of maple and fir right now for next year

Your wood will be fine, we all know summer starts July 5th around here, I would keep it stacked where you have it till mid Sept then put it in your shed and burn it in the winter, unless of course you already have seasoned wood for next year

The rain will evaporate in no time and the wood will continue its seasoning process. Rain is just surface moisture, the moisture we want out of the wood is cellulose moisture. The rain doesnt interfere with that unless you get a lot of rain.

Bigg_Redd,

Your probably close enough to me to see how my fir dries when it rains like it did last night. I've posted it under "1200 hours of drying" Basically, my fir that's uncovered gets a little heavier when it rains but the next dry day anything gained dries and seasoning continues. The wood that is covered doesn't lose any moisture when it's raining either so the stuff that gets wet doesn't really get behind.

Bigg_Redd said:

I've got about 2 cord of green Doug Fir split and stacked in my back yard. Last night it rained lightly. Will the light rainfall stop my wood from seasoning? Or perhaps accelerate it?

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Since what you're really pointing to is air-drying of the wood, any of the rain that gains access to the innards of the wood will wet it.

Clearly it'll reverse the drying process. You are kidding about accelerating it, no?

You have a few hooked so reel them in.

oldspark said:

You have a few hooked so reel them in.

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:lol:

Is it stacked bark up or down?

That's why it's good to stack your stacks with one side of the stacks slightly lower than the other...that way the water will drain off faster. Look at the bright side BR...your wood will burn cleaner now.

Ed

Bigg_Redd said:

God himself burns Doug Fir. It's how he keeps heaven warm in the winter.

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You have pics of that?

snowleopard said:

Bigg_Redd said:

God himself burns Doug Fir. It's how he keeps heaven warm in the winter.

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You have pics of that?

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Probably not. BR is too mischievous to be allowed anywhere near Heaven.
Maybe he can get some pics of the Devil burning Bodark. :smirk:

Woody Stover said:

snowleopard said:

Bigg_Redd said:

God himself burns Doug Fir. It's how he keeps heaven warm in the winter.

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You have pics of that?

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Probably not. BR is too mischievous to be allowed anywhere near Heaven.
Maybe he can get some pics of the Devil burning Bodark. :smirk:

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Those of us who've sat in front of a Hearthstone already know that's what's being used to burn the Doug Fir (probably the Equinox), although He may have been able to get ahold of the new Woodstock. Or not.

In which stove do you think the bodark is smoldering? I lived with a sheet metal stove that I think was manufactured there, but I could be wrong about that.

No doubt all that wood is ruined by now Bigg_Redd. You had best get right back out there and cut more only cut double this time. Then the next time it rains, go out there and hold an umbrella to keep those nasty raindrops of that precious wood.

Get you one of these to keep your wood dry Redd.

snowleopard said:

In which stove do you think the bodark is smoldering? I lived with a sheet metal stove that I think was manufactured there, but I could be wrong about that.

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Yep, a thick plate-steel stove, all black. Maybe a Blaze King of the Underworld? It's not smoldering, though.
:snake:

CTYank said:

Bigg_Redd said:

I've got about 2 cord of green Doug Fir split and stacked in my back yard. Last night it rained lightly. Will the light rainfall stop my wood from seasoning? Or perhaps accelerate it?

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Since what you're really pointing to is air-drying of the wood, any of the rain that gains access to the innards of the wood will wet it.

Clearly it'll reverse the drying process. You are kidding about accelerating it, no?

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I don't know.. I've actually considered this myself. Soaking a moisture containing body can actually help to 'leach' out the moisture from it when it all dries. I'm not saying it will help, but I wouldn't discount the possibility that quickly. Think of what happens to your skin when continually soaked, it actually makes your skin drier.. it's a basis function of cells.. don't see why the same couldn't apply to a wood cell.