After a washout of a weekend and Zap forecasting 9 more days of it, I am beginning to wish I had more roof. 1st pic is the heap, 2nd is an uncovered stack I intend to burn this year and 3rd is under the roof that I intend to burn this year.
Yep that's it in a nut shell.gzecc said:Covering single row stacks makes you feel better, it does very little for the wood. Heaps on the other hand won't dry either way.
jackofalltrades said:As long as it is stacked it will dry after the rain in short order. The roof in the South does more harm than good I believe.
SolarAndWood said:After a washout of a weekend and Zap forecasting 9 more days of it, I am beginning to wish I had more roof. 1st pic is the heap, 2nd is an uncovered stack I intend to burn this year and 3rd is under the roof that I intend to burn this year.
SolarAndWood said:After a washout of a weekend and Zap forecasting 9 more days of it, I am beginning to wish I had more roof. 1st pic is the heap, 2nd is an uncovered stack I intend to burn this year and 3rd is under the roof that I intend to burn this year.
Jags said:Just a thought, but if it is raining out, your wood is probably not drying any - anyhow, covered or not. just say'in.
oldspark said:Yep that's it in a nut shell.gzecc said:Covering single row stacks makes you feel better, it does very little for the wood. Heaps on the other hand won't dry either way.
oldspark said:Yep that's it in a nut shell.gzecc said:Covering single row stacks makes you feel better, it does very little for the wood. Heaps on the other hand won't dry either way.
I've got a full 20 inch Honey Locust round that I've been using for my chopping block. It was cut and split last fall right before the leaves dropped and it has full branches growing out of it. I figured I'd just let it go to see how far along it'll get.midwestcoast said:I am sorta glad I'm not trying to burn this elm for the coming winter as it doesn't seem to be seasoning as fast as expected, hah! :gulp:
It's been c/s/s since early March. That is about a 4 inch round, and several splits now have leaves too.
Lots of people and some web sites (wood.org for one) state they see no advantage for cover the single rows, plus the fact I have burnt wood for over 30 years and only cover the wood in the fall after it is dry so not sure why you assume I am not basing this on facts. Once again we are talking about fire wood here not lumber.CTYank said:oldspark said:Yep that's it in a nut shell.gzecc said:Covering single row stacks makes you feel better, it does very little for the wood. Heaps on the other hand won't dry either way.
Everyone's entitled to their own belief system, but when selling it to someone else, facts matter.
Professional dealing with preparation of huge amounts of forest products are on record with results of studies of how best to prepare forest products.
A large part of that is moisture-content management. Nowhere is there mention of good/neutral effect of periodic re-wetting of wood.
OTOH, much is written about practices in air/kiln-drying of wood, where maintaining covering is considered important.
My experience in covering wood with crude shed/tarps bears the above out. Easy to see the difference relative to uncovered wood.
Some types of heaps seem to work pretty well, "holzhausen" maybe? Take some time to build.
Whatever, keeping an open mind, and evaluating facts objectively, are a real PLUS.
SolarAndWood said:Jags said:Just a thought, but if it is raining out, your wood is probably not drying any - anyhow, covered or not. just say'in.
That is the big question right? Everything else being equal, after 2 weeks of rain and say 3 days of wind and sun, is there any difference between the uncovered stack and the stack under the roof. The rain stopped about an hour ago and right now there is a big difference.
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