Dead Ash

[Niro]

I got 4ft by 6ft of recently split standing ash on the top front row of the wood I plan to start from this year. The issue is I split and stack it a week ago and it's currently at 24% on a fresh split.

I won't start burning for 2 week and I have 2 weeks worth in the house. So my question is will it be ready in a month or should make kindle wood with half and restock the other half out of the way to buy more time and get into dry stuff.

 

[bholler]

I got 4ft by 6ft of recently split standing ash on the top front row of the wood I plan to start from this year. The issue is I split and stack it a week ago and it's currently at 24% on a fresh split.

I won't start burning for 2 week and I have 2 weeks worth in the house. So my question is will it be ready in a month or should make kindle wood with half and restock the other half out of the way to buy more time and get into dry stuff.

It's very doubtful

 

[begreen]

A few months, maybe. 2 weeks outside, nope. If you can bring it into the house or a heated area in boxes or totes for a few weeks it may drop down to 21% which would be burnable.

 

[Niro]

I got month. I guess I will have to bring it in the garage or at least move it out of the way for now. I was being lazy and hopeful I guess.

 

[begreen]

If in the garage, put an oscillating fan blowing across the stack for faster drying.

 

[Garbanzo62]

I have a bunch of dead ash that I split and stacked at the end of July. Most of it was between 24 and 27%. Just checked a split and it was still mid 20's. What I don't know is what the original moisture content of that particular split was. So I may have gone from 27 to 25 or It may have been no movement at all.

 

[begreen]

Was this standing dead ash, or fallen and on the ground? Was the wood stacked right after being split and top covered?

 

[Garbanzo62]

Was this standing dead ash, or fallen and on the ground? Was the wood stacked right after being split and top covered?

My dead ash is a combination. The top half of the trees snapped off and was on the ground for an unknown period of time, The bottom half of the trees I dropped. Both were split and stacked under a covered area. However, Since this was all done in one shot. I cannot state with any certainty if the latest split I tested was from the downed sections or from the sections that I dropped. I have another pile of dead ash that I recently bucked up from downed dead trees. One of those was multi-trunk and a section was a good foot off the ground. A portion of that section (top part of the tree) was under 20% but as I move towards the base of the tree the moisture content goes up ranging from 25 to over 40%). I am still splitting that (Leaf cleanup taking my outdoor time). Hoping to encounter a few more below 20 . Some is 22, I am going to let that sit for a bit. Trying to get the higher content on the bottom of the stack so as I split (hand maul) I meter test and then put into separate piles so I can stack the lower content on top.

 

[stoveliker]

What is also important is if it was *stacked* off the ground.