Cover logs or leave to elements

[Gav73]

We get a lot of rain, but I leave my stacks uncovered when I know there’s not going to be rain and throw a tarp over the top when rain is forecast. My tarps have cord all the way round and I use several 6” offcuts of fence posts with hooks in them to hang on the cord to hold the tarp down. I find this method works well with getting the airflow through as the tarps act a bit like a parachute in the wind, but don’t come off

[slack ma girdle]

I have yet to find a faster way of seasoning logs, except through a kiln.

[Steven P]

also depends where you put them to dry, along the side of my house for example birch felled and split a year ago is roaring away just now, but that gets the wind right down the long edge of the stack, similar quantity of soft woods at the end of the drive - wind hits that but doesn't pass it - and it isn't quite ready just now.

 

Instead of a tarp I will often just put bark on top like roof tiles - naturally waterproof, falls off the logs when they split and what else would I do with it?