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JACKPOT!
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Rangerbait
Feeling the Heat
This brings along its own set of problems...storage...lol going to have to fast track the lean to and wood shed!
Catfish Hunter
Burning Hunk
FaithfulWoodsman
Minister of Fire
sportbikerider78
Minister of Fire
Heating your home into the 70's for very little money and the sweat off the brow is very fullfilling. I'm hooked for life...regardless of income or need.
Woody Stover
Minister of Fire
Jackpot indeed! White Oak, king of firewoods! Shoot, the smell alone makes it worth the work.
Don't be fooled, though. If that stuff had been standing dead for 10 yrs. and all the bark and sapwood was long gone, then I would agree that it wouldn't take long to dry out. I would try that type of stuff in one year, if it was split to 4" or less, stacked loose and single-row, top-covered, and I lived in the middle of a huge bean field in the part of Indiana where they have the wind generators!
With the stuff you have there, since I'm stacking three rows wide on pallets, in the woods where the wind isn't that good, I would leave it in the stack three years. If I work that hard, I want perfect-burning wood for my efforts. 
I sure can....pm your card number...Can you fedex any of the unwanted stuff to jersey????
I just stuck several of them with the meter and I am getting a 21-23% avg.Not bad...I was expecting it to be higher.Jackpot indeed! White Oak, king of firewoods! Shoot, the smell alone makes it worth the work.
Don't be fooled, though. If that stuff had been standing dead for 10 yrs. and all the bark and sapwood was long gone, then I would agree that it wouldn't take long to dry out. I would try that type of stuff in one year, if it was split to 4" or less, stacked loose and single-row, top-covered, and I lived in the middle of a huge bean field in the part of Indiana where they have the wind generators!
Woody Stover
Minister of Fire
Wow, that surprises me as well.
Don't be lulled, though. Probably just a limb that's drier than the rest. Do I sound like I don't trust Oak? That's probably because I've been burned more than once, with a sizzler making it into the stove. I hate that... 
I have been there as well...oak is pretty much all I burn. I have been burning for the last 30 yrs give or take..I am very lucky in that I get a lot of oak.I have some I cut green 18 months ago and split and stacked and I checked a good size piece of it yesterday and its 24%....getting there...Wow, that surprises me as well.
What I am burning now is red oak and it runs 14% and often less...catches immediately.At my current burn rate I will have enough of it to finish out this season pretty easy. I will stay on cutting and splitting my new hoard...I will keep the smaller limb wood separate and I will have a lot of it. I have about 3 cord of year old ash thats looking pretty good...couldnt pass it up as it went down in a straight line wind storm in a open pasture....pure gravy...
English BoB
Minister of Fire
Easy Livin’ 3000
Minister of Fire
Not me. Three years for that is too long to wait. There is such a thing as too much patience, and if that is what is required for this awesome score, I'd say screw it and give this whole endeavor up.Jackpot indeed! White Oak, king of firewoods! Shoot, the smell alone makes it worth the work.
Don't be fooled, though. If that stuff had been standing dead for 10 yrs. and all the bark and sapwood was long gone, then I would agree that it wouldn't take long to dry out. I would try that type of stuff in one year, if it was split to 4" or less, stacked loose and single-row, top-covered, and I lived in the middle of a huge bean field in the part of Indiana where they have the wind generators!
Figure out how to get some of it dry enough to burn next year, don't need all of it dry, just enough. Then repeat for year two. Whatever it takes, solar kiln, whatever. Just sitting on all that for three years, unless you have enough already ready to burn, feels like too much sacrifice, almost like giving up.
Woody Stover
Minister of Fire
Haven't you heard? "Good things come to those who wait." Three-year White is more than good....it's grrrrreat!
Once you get a few years ahead on your wood, you ain't waitin' for the good stuff. Ready to burn right now, I've got....soft Maple and Black Cherry (of course,) Sugar Maple, Red Oak, White, Pignut Hickory, Dogwood and Black Locust. For me, the wait is over....has been for years. 
I am pretty sure this will be ready for next year...at a minimum the limb wood will be ready. I have time to set on a lot of wood and usually do as I sell a lot on the side to help my son out while attending college...Winter time its cutting,splitting and stacking...summer time it lawn care...it never ends!
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heavy hammer
Minister of Fire
True enough...I am already 2-3 years ahead with some oak,locust and ash...this recent score is so much more icing on the cake! This will propel me many years ahead! It affords me the chance to be very selective in what goes into my stove! I am figuring out what it takes size wise to stuff this stove to the max for max burn times.There is going to be lots of squared up pieces in my future....Haven't you heard? "Good things come to those who wait." Three-year White is more than good....it's grrrrreat!
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Woody I checked some bigger pieces that I had brought in overnight and got 27%
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HisTreeNut
Minister of Fire
Hey...Haven't you heard? "Good things come to those who wait." Three-year White is more than good....it's grrrrreat!
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Got a 3 year supply of the picture...or enough to share?
Woody Stover
Minister of Fire
OK, maybe the ones that tested lower were still cold? That will lower the reading. You're looking at a couple years in the stack, then, if they aren't split real big.
That stuff appeared here once, then I never saw it again, unfortunately. Maybe you gotta live in a bigger town to get the variety, or maybe it was just a specialty thing for a short time?Got a 3 year supply of the picture...or enough to share?