How Long for Seasoning?

[thewoodlands]

I will be splitting this starting next week, how long will it take it to season? I think both trees are Quaking Aspen and both were down and dead.



zap

 

[Got Wood]

With all the wood you have does it matter? Put it it at the end of the line and burn it when its time comes....

 

[thewoodlands]

With all the wood you have does it matter? Put it it at the end of the line and burn it when its time comes....

Just wondering, a neighbor wanted some softwood ( about 2 face cord) and I told him I didn't think it was going to be ready for this year.


zap

 

[SolarAndWood]

Split it small, maybe ready mid winter? Definitely burn it next winter, no point in wasting space on less than ideal firewood for longer than that.

 

[smokinj]

Zap it will rot before you can get to it! lol

 

[PapaDave]

Looks like what's known as popple around here. I think maybe they mean poplar, but who knows.
Anyway, I had some last year that dried in a few months. REAL wet when I cut it. Lost of fluffy ash, but not too bad if you want heat.
Not as bad as the dreaded PINE! N/M, I burn that too. %-P

 

[firefighterjake]

Looks like what's known as popple around here. I think maybe they mean poplar, but who knows.
Anyway, I had some last year that dried in a few months. REAL wet when I cut it. Lost of fluffy ash, but not too bad if you want heat.
Not as bad as the dreaded PINE! N/M, I burn that too. %-P

Same here . . . aspen = poplar = popple.

Sometimes I think folks in Michigan are somehow related to folks here in Maine since they seem to have the same description of things . . . well that and we both claim Paul Bunyan as our own folk hero.

 

[latitude45]

Bunyan lives just across the Big Mac in St. Ignace..

 

[Backwoods Savage]

Zap, both were down and both were dead. How was the sap when you cut? You can tell by that how long it will take. A SWAG, 3-4 months might do the trick. Maybe longer. It just depends on how much sap is still in the wood.

 

[Danno77]

why is Paul Bunyan sitting on a toilet (and looking like he's really-a-pushin)?

 

[thewoodlands]

why is Paul Bunyan sitting on a toilet (and looking like he's really-a-pushin)?

That's not Paul Bunyan, it's QUADS outside the barn with nellie!


zap

 

[Oldmainer]

Hi Zap...I cut wood from early spring when the snow melts...until snow time in the fall. I cut soft and hard wood...split it...and haul it to my own stacking area and my sons...five to seven cords apiece. I burn it when it's cold nuff to do it...usually burn white pine in spring and fall...and the hard wood when it decides to really get cold... I have a smoke dragon in my basement as does my son. This years I was able to buy fifteen cords of mixed hard wood in log length at a fair price so that saved me alot of time as I didn't need to harvest from my 40 acre wood lot. Most folks here in Maine harvest in spring and fall and burn it that winter. Oldmainer

 

[Backwoods Savage]

Heck, most folks it seems cut in the fall and winter and burn right away. Some never learn.

 

[oldspark]

Some never learn.

" Aint no learning in the second kick of a mule"

 

[thewoodlands]

Split it small, maybe ready mid winter? Definitely burn it next winter, no point in wasting space on less than ideal firewood for longer than that.

Solar I split some aspen today and it read 38 percent on the moisture meter on the outside.

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