burning green wood question

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Alright, I took out the slide rule and textbooks, consulted the world wide web and have been able to calculate, with scientific certainty, an answer to your question.

Don't burn wet wood, save it for next year.

Also, don't burn you wet clothes in the stove and don't put wood, seasoned or not, in your clothes dryer.
 
MikeP said:
I'm going to go at this from a completly different angle...

A gallon is a gallon. my example...

40 pound load of wood at the typically accepted level of dry wood 20% moisture, or 32 pounds energy and 8 pounds water. Or about a gallon of water.

40 pound load of wood, 20lbs at 30% and 20lbs at 10%, equals 32 pounds of energy and 8 pounds of water, again about a gallon.

Now I know the higher moisture wood can keep a modern stove from secondary combustion, but if you burning the dryer wood with secondaries and are drying some less than ideal wood at the same time..... A gallon is a gallon

Of course getting enough 10% dry wood to mix in would probably be a problem, but that wasn't the question... ;-)
Try it, time it, let everyone know your results. I, for one, am very interested.
 
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