My wood is to dry!

[Gboutdoors]

Got my self ahead more than three years so I sold a few cords and bartered with a few more. I stack on 20' pallets 4'wx4'h so around 2 1x2 cord per pallet give or take.

All the wood is from dead standing oak stacked for a few seasons. Readings on the MM range from 14-20% . All have been happy with what they paid and rec. but one.

This guy is the brother of a co worker that needed wood to burn this season and could not find any as most local guys are out. He asked if I could part with one more cord for him.

I told him to come over look at what I had and if it was what he wanted it would be $200. for a half pallet 10'x4x4. He stopped by handed me the money and loaded up .

I asked his brother how he like the wood and amount he got and was told it was good. Then I saw him the other day and asked him and he said it was (ok) but that he had to add some wet wood to each load as the oak I sold him was to dry and burned so well he had to slow it down. He was not happy with this at all . As some one once said you can't please everyone.

 

[SKIN052]

I know you just have to shake your head at some of these people. I equate it to the fact that some people will never change old habits. Recently had a large discussion with friends about this exact issue. Buddy was looking for some green wood to mix into his barely one year old stuff. When I tried explaining that the new stoves really preferred dry wood they all scoffed and raved about how that's how it been done for all their life, etc, etc. Even the FIL goes by this old adage. I'll see him cleaning his chimney cap again this year with a hammer and a chisel.

 

[muncybob]

Wood being too dry makes as much sense to me as saying I have too much wood

 

[Pennsyltucky Chris]

No good deed goes unpunished.

 

[tymbee]

I recall previous conversations re. "too dry" wood. While I wouldn't think your wood as you described it would be considered too dry, there actually is a point at which firewood could be too dry. If you baked it in a kiln for example and brought the moisture content down to near zero then chucked it in your stove-- you'd soon see that it would be too dry!

Got my self ahead more than three years so I sold a few cords and bartered with a few more. I stack on 20' pallets 4'wx4'h so around 2 1x2 cord per pallet give or take.

All the wood is from dead standing oak stacked for a few seasons. Readings on the MM range from 14-20% . All have been happy with what they paid and rec. but one.

This guy is the brother of a co worker that needed wood to burn this season and could not find any as most local guys are out. He asked if I could part with one more cord for him.

I told him to come over look at what I had and if it was what he wanted it would be $200. for a half pallet 10'x4x4. He stopped by handed me the money and loaded up .

I asked his brother how he like the wood and amount he got and was told it was good. Then I saw him the other day and asked him and he said it was (ok) but that he had to add some wet wood to each load as the oak I sold him was to dry and burned so well he had to slow it down. He was not happy with this at all . As some one once said you can't please everyone.

 

[Jerhurt]

Wood to dry I like saying you don't have enough water in your gas

 

[BIGDADDY]

Tell him that's why it was only $200. Ask if he wants to buy some greeners.

 

[Paulywalnut]

He's probably thinks it's normal for the wood to be foaming out the ends while burning. Tell him that foaming wood is 300 a stack.

 

[Ralphie Boy]

Is he related to these guys?

 

[Woody Stover]

What kind of stove is he burning in? If he's got a newer stove, and it's not leaking air, that wood should burn great. If his stove is old or leaking air and he can't turn it down low enough, maybe he needs to replace some gaskets...

 

[Gboutdoors]

He has a pre-EPA stove and knows how to burn wood he's been doing it long before I started so he said The power company is coming out to cut down 20-30 trees along my frontage and will leave all the logs for me so I will buck and split these for next fall. Most of them are red oak and some maple they should be nice and wet still come fall just right for burning! I could sell them as NOT TO DRY firewood.

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERY ONE HOPE YOUR YEAR WAS GOOD

Greg B.

 

[BrotherBart]

You guys just don't understand. Flames in the stove mean you are wasting wood.

 

[BIGDADDY]

You guys just don't understand. Flames in the stove mean you are wasting wood.

I thought it meant I was starting a fire. Silly me.

 

[Lumber-Jack]

I asked his brother how he like the wood and amount he got and was told it was good. Then I saw him the other day and asked him and he said it was (ok) but that he had to add some wet wood to each load as the oak I sold him was to dry and burned so well he had to slow it down. He was not happy with this at all . As some one once said you can't please everyone.

If you cut green wood you should stack it and leave it to dry then after a few years you may try to burn it, although some may then claim that it's to dry or even two dry, but we know what they really mean is that they think it's too dry.

 

[mudr]

If you cut green wood you should stack it and leave it to dry then after a few years you may try to burn it, although some may then claim that it's to dry or even two dry, but we know what they really mean is that they think it's too dry.

Had to log in just to like this.

 

[Mag Craft]

Irrelevant of the spelling of to, two, and too. I believe I still understood perfectly what to dry of wood meant.

I am a musician and I like a chord of wood instead of a cord but eventually someone will come along and tell me in a nice way that I have the wrong chord. So I play along. But what is the big deal.

 

[Lumber-Jack]

what is the big deal.

No big deal. Just playing along.

 

[Mag Craft]

No big deal. Just playing along.

Cool.

 

[Gboutdoors]

If you cut green wood you should stack it and leave it to dry then after a few years you may try to burn it, although some may then claim that it's to dry or even two dry, but we know what they really mean is that they think it's too dry.

Hope my daughter did not see this as she has her doctorate in language / english and would not find it (two funny)