Sounds like a winner. However, (and I don't want to step on anybody's toes) I know this fellow is a friend but still, most folks who own wood selling business do not dry wood like we do or is necessary. It makes sense to them because splitting wood and then stacking it up to dry, then loading it onto the truck for delivery is extra time, extra handling and takes lots of space. Therefore, they either convince themselves that wood needs very little time to dry or else they think if a tree has been cut down for a year the wood is dry. Nothing could be further from the truth! Wood doesn't dry except on the very ends until it has been split. So generally, wood still needs a year after being split before burning.
Wood will indeed burn well after being split and stacked for a year but it will burn even better after 2 years. Last year we went from burning wood that had been split and stacked for 7 years to wood that had been split and stacked for only 1.5 years. Huge difference in the way it burned
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fwiw, there are those who will call us crazy (and they are probably right), but here is one big benefit we enjoy by burning wood that has had time to dry: We are on our 5th year of burning wood in our present stove. We have cleaned our chimney one time for about a cup of soot: no creosote. Yes, dry wood rocks. And once more, I do not intend to hurt anyone's feelings. Just giving a head's up.
