Yesterday I saw a post and someone from Woodstock had told them their wood was too dry. WHAT???!
So I zipped of an email stating my objection to their advise. Sure enough, they do think wood can be too dry. I haven't yet received a response from a follow-up email asking for specifics on this supposed too dry wood but I can wait. Most on this forum know that I think the term of too dry wood is plain B...., whooops; baloney.
In my email I stated about our wood that we'd been burning and I usually say it is 6 to 7 years in the stack. Well, I really got to wondering so had to dig through some records to find out just when that wood was cut, split and stacked.
Well, the last couple of years it turns out we were burning wood that was split and stacked during April of 2002. So in just 3 months that wood will be 9 years in the stack. We do still have some of it too. I guess my wife's comment would sum it all up. She said, "I wish you still had some of that old wood we were burning." What more could I add to that?
So, was the wood we were burning too dry?
Here are the questions I sent to Woodstock:
So, how dry is too dry wood? (Not counting kiln dried wood.)
How would you determine that wood was too dry?
How do you get your wood this dry?
What are the signs of too dry wood?
Should I go pee on our woodpile because it is too dry?
What do you think are the right answers and when does my wood become too dry? What about that dead white ash we are now cutting? After all, we already have about 6 years of wood supply on hand already.
So I zipped of an email stating my objection to their advise. Sure enough, they do think wood can be too dry. I haven't yet received a response from a follow-up email asking for specifics on this supposed too dry wood but I can wait. Most on this forum know that I think the term of too dry wood is plain B...., whooops; baloney.
In my email I stated about our wood that we'd been burning and I usually say it is 6 to 7 years in the stack. Well, I really got to wondering so had to dig through some records to find out just when that wood was cut, split and stacked.
Well, the last couple of years it turns out we were burning wood that was split and stacked during April of 2002. So in just 3 months that wood will be 9 years in the stack. We do still have some of it too. I guess my wife's comment would sum it all up. She said, "I wish you still had some of that old wood we were burning." What more could I add to that?
So, was the wood we were burning too dry?
Here are the questions I sent to Woodstock:
So, how dry is too dry wood? (Not counting kiln dried wood.)
How would you determine that wood was too dry?
How do you get your wood this dry?
What are the signs of too dry wood?
Should I go pee on our woodpile because it is too dry?
What do you think are the right answers and when does my wood become too dry? What about that dead white ash we are now cutting? After all, we already have about 6 years of wood supply on hand already.