Who’s ready for burn season? Do you already have your firewood?

[Itslay90]

Who’s ready for burn season? Do you already have your firewood?

 

[ohlongarmisle]

Who’s ready for burn season? Do you already have your firewood?

Ten seasons ahead, most stuff is 5 to 10 yrs old in a building, all oak and hickory, not to mention the white oak blocks. Over 4 cords, two seasons burning, at least in the king.

 

[Itslay90]

Ten seasons ahead, most stuff is 5 to 10 yrs old in a building, all oak and hickory, not to mention the white oak blocks. Over 4 cords, two seasons burning, at least in the king.

Nice, I have those small pieces. I really don’t like them like that. Because you can’t really stack them in the stove. I think they’re good for doing the day when you want to keep the heat going.

 

[stoveliker]

Those pieces are the perfect stacking fuel with their straight sides.
You may have to put one stack in front of the other but stacking they do better than any split wood ...

 

[ohlongarmisle]

Nice, I have those small pieces. I really don’t like them like that. Because you can’t really stack them in the stove. I think they’re good for doing the day when you want to keep the heat going.

My pieces are far from small an occasional piece gets slipped in some of those weigh 10 to 20 lbs most are over 5lbs. ,in my King parlor in bitter weather, a full load burns for 16 hours usable heat. I load on a coal bed because they are slow to start when stacked tight. They leave a small coal bed and burn to powder almost. Over one ton in here back in the day when they didn't deliver. You picked up, and they weighed you in and out.

 

[bigealta]

Pretty much maxed out space wise. I could probably consolidate 2 partial stacks to make available 1 more 8ft long single stack.
Going to have to measure all the 8 and 10 ft randomly placed stacks to see what the grand total amounts to. I'll guess 6 cords but hopefully there's more than that.

 

[Woodsplitter67]

I was ready for the fall 26 burning season back in April of 2022 lol

He who gets wood delivered this time of year burns wet wood

 

[Itslay90]

I was ready for the fall 26 burning season back in April of 2022 lol

He who gets wood delivered this time of year burns wet wood

Do you do you process your own firewood?

 

[Woodsplitter67]

Like this

 

[Itslay90]

Like this

Nice, I just started getting logs. It’s more easy. I don’t have to keep looking for firewood or go people house,

 

[Giaman]

Ten seasons ahead has gotta be some sort of record. I have a huge amount of wood, maybe 4 years. But I’m worried not enough seasoned wood to get me through the winter. This very wet and cool summer has not helped (my wood is all outside, pretty much all oak with some hickory)

 

[NickW]

I've got about 6 cord css'd right now. Figuring 3.5 cord per season or so. Should be good with hardwoods for 27/28 but I need to get some shoulder season wood ready this fall for 27/28 after moving thisyears stash inside. My new outside storage area isn't ready yet and won't be this year... I still have tree's down all over the place from the June '24 storms and tons of dead black ash in the swamp. The down stuff is mostly off the ground.

Other than moving wood inside I just have to give the flue a quick sooteater cleaning.

 

[djlew]

I'm only slightly panicking - I maybe have a half cord ready to burn, and about another half cord that still needs seasoning time. I probably go through a cord a year at this point.

My issue is I have the wood, just need to get myself out there and get it processed. I also have some dead trees I need to harvest that should be good for '28.

I also need to get my chimney cleaned out. I am thinking I need to get that done sooner than later, want to beat the potential rush but I may have already missed the mark. I'm not sure when my sweep is the busiest.

 

[John Lehet]

My close-to-door woodshed has been overstuffed since I guess April or May, a few cords in there. Ash and maple cut a year ago, much of it split in ‘25 but some split early spring ‘26 from rounds or logs I didn’t get to before winter. Organized by dryness and hopefully won’t get to the most recently split stuff this winter. Also a bunch of ash cut and split and stacked in there summer ‘25. Should be enough dry wood for even an extra harsh 26-27.

I built another wood shed this summer, 7 x 16’ deck and pretty tall, no walls, clear roof. A pole building. I’ve had half of it stacked 5 or 6 feet high for a month, the other half I’m still working on, waist high. This is the green wood shed, to dry stuff for a year or more before it goes into the close-to-door shed. I’ve got a bunch of ash and maple in there but unfortunately a lot of pine is taking up room. Took down some very big white pines in early spring and also a butternut — those were all threatening the house. A lot of crummy wood taking up a lot of room, but I’m going to burn it eventually, not going to just throw it away. This shed will hold 4 or 4.5 cords if I stack it high, more than I burn in a winter (though of course the pine and butternut doesn’t count as much). I’ll get more ash in there this fall. I’ll burn a bit of pine in shoulder seasons so it will be there for a while.

 

[Turbo89]

I’m probably 2+ seasons ahead after I finish splitting all the oak I just got. I’m guessing im
Sitting on 10+ cords of stacked, dry wood right now and another 3+ cords of oak in logs /rounds.

Most of my dry wood is ash and maple, but I have at least 2 cords of 2+ year seasoned oak and hickory for the cold nights.

 

[BigFir]

I was ready for the fall 26 burning season back in April of 2022 lol

He who gets wood delivered this time of year burns wet wood

Not in British Columbia!

 

[TomBexley]

One thing I've wondered about when people say they're a year or two ahead is how much the actual moisture reading varies from stack to stack.Especially with oak, I'd probably trust a meter reading on a freshly split face more than the calendar if there was any doubt. Two pieces that have both sat outside for two years could be pretty different depending on how they were split, stacked and covered.
Do many of you actually check moisture before the season starts or after a while can you pretty much tell by weight and feel?

 

[NickW]

One thing I've wondered about when people say they're a year or two ahead is how much the actual moisture reading varies from stack to stack.Especially with oak, I'd probably trust a meter reading on a freshly split face more than the calendar if there was any doubt. Two pieces that have both sat outside for two years could be pretty different depending on how they were split, stacked and covered.
Do many of you actually check moisture before the season starts or after a while can you pretty much tell by weight and feel?

This year I'll be spot checking because I'm not as far ahead as usual. Typically if I'm my normal 3+ years ahead I would only spot check oak. My spot checks start with the biggest chunks and if their good I know the smaller ones should be good. I segregate firewood by seasoning time. Hopefully the birch css'd last July & August and the cherry & red maple css'd in March are ready... Everything else for this year is definitely ready to go.

 

[bigealta]

Spot check. (17 stacks) I have each stack dated with black marker rite on the ends of 4 or 5 splits in the stack. Each stack is from the same tree and split and stacked at the same time. So if a few spot checks are good then that whole stack should be good.

Just measured
5.4 cords of stacked mostly oak 3 months to 3 plus years CSS.
3/4 cord back up stack of 10 year old roof covered locust.

 

[stoveliker]

One thing I've wondered about when people say they're a year or two ahead is how much the actual moisture reading varies from stack to stack.Especially with oak, I'd probably trust a meter reading on a freshly split face more than the calendar if there was any doubt. Two pieces that have both sat outside for two years could be pretty different depending on how they were split, stacked and covered.
Do many of you actually check moisture before the season starts or after a while can you pretty much tell by weight and feel?

Once one checks year after year and the wood is good, then at some point one stops checking.
I'd check 2 year old wood..3 years old (shed, so no rain whatsoever), I don't check much anymore.
Only one or two of the biggest pieces sometimes if I have doubts. But those doubts never resulted in a reading above 18% (room temp, freshly split surface,.max reading of three locations).

At that point one just stops to check.

 

[Murray01]

I check my wood often and frequently, mostly when I’m splitting it to decide what pile it goes in. I have access to an old burn, and forest that wasn’t burnt. Within both areas I have standing dead and blowdowns, the blowdowns with green needles don’t get tested, I know they need a summer to cure. Wood coming out of the burn can range from 15%-35% moisture. Dead wood coming out of the unburnt area can range from 25% to +44%(my meter only reads to 44%)

I do break the cardinal rule and test the wood at any and all temperatures since I’m only looking for which pile to put the questionable wood in, figure if I’m reading 30% at 0C it’s not ready to burn at the true moisture reading will be higher.

 

[Woodsplitter67]

One thing I've wondered about when people say they're a year or two ahead is how much the actual moisture reading varies from stack to stack.Especially with oak, I'd probably trust a meter reading on a freshly split face more than the calendar if there was any doubt. Two pieces that have both sat outside for two years could be pretty different depending on how they were split, stacked and covered.
Do many of you actually check moisture before the season starts or after a while can you pretty much tell by weight and feel?

I don't see much in the way of variation in wood moisture in my stacks. I think you'll see a ton of it's outside under tarps and stuff. I see very little variation with me wood it's all pretty much bone dry. All of my wood sits in woodsheds. Rain hasn't touched any of those splits since spring 22 .. it's really dry..

 

[Burnin Since 1991]

I don't have room to keep a lot of wood, but next years wood will be delivered next week. I am in the process of upgrading my primary wood pile to a temporary wood shed (avoid zoning issues). The new shed will let me keep 2 full years ahead instead of just slightly more than 1.5

 

[NickW]

Catching up on some brush burning tonight while the boss does some fishing...

 

[ohlongarmisle]

Catching up on some brush burning tonight while the boss does some fishing...
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Looks like a great time.