Should I be surprised?

[bluedogz]

Hurricane Irene gave me a gift of about a cord of black locust, which I CSS'd immediately.

Just for kicks, I checked a couples of fresh splits today- around 19-23%.

Guess I could burn 'em in the event of zombie apocalypse... for some reason I thought they'd be lower.

 

[blwncrewchief]

Sounds right. I have BL that was c/s/s in April and the 4 pieces i checked a month or so ago were all 20-25%. So pretty much dead on with mine. I hear people say BL can be burned within 1 year but I wouldn't if cut green unless I was in a desert climate. Now I have cut some dead standing and dead blow down that was less than 20% when cut. One more summer and it should be good to go for next year if you want to burn it then. I would guess from past experience that it should be 13-16% next year and that is when I think it starts burning pretty good. I usually hang onto my BL and burn everything else first since I don't have to worry about BL punking or rotting. I have had some that was c/s/s for 7 years and it was still pretty much perfect.

 

[Woody Stover]

I'll be splitting some BL shortly. Only stuff that's already pretty dry will go into the stack for this Fall.

 

[Backwoods Savage]

bluedog, it should be really nice next fall.

 

[bluedogz]

bluedog, it should be really nice next fall.

It'll also fit real nice into the new 30.