Is this the wettest (firewood selling )autumn you have known !

[GarethM]

1 minute ago, Whoppa Choppa said:

This thread is right on. My suspicion is that this winter will be similar to 2019-20 where we had 10 dry days between the end of September and end of Feb. The subsequent summer was really nice.

 

As above, a disaster for drying firewood and also for working the land / woods.

I would assume that's pretty accurate, I'd have to deep dive but when it shifts we get hot and dry instead of mostly moist.

 

There is some correlation between that and the Atlantic conveyor, simply that's why eels go from our east coast to the Sargasso sea to feed.

[Steven P]

13 hours ago, GarethM said:

Blame those pesky wind turbines!.

Surly with all those fans going that should make a pleasant breeze to dry the logs with?

[GarethM]

25 minutes ago, Steven P said:

Surly with all those fans going that should make a pleasant breeze to dry the logs with?

Duh, only when you run them backwards!.

 

Plus I thought you knew they run them at night to rewind the earths clock mechanism, sushi that's some secret squirrel stuff!

Edited November 5, 2023 by GarethM

[cessna]

I am now finding that although I have the top of my wood stack covered with ,ex bulker lorry tarpaulins ,that the weather has been so wet and damp that the wood is getting damper even in the middle of the stack.What I am meaning is that the stack is approx 2.4mtr wide, and the damp seems to have crept right across the width of the 2.4mtr wide stack!!!!!!! Most years the ends of the logs get wet but one normally gets a few dry days with a wind to dry the ends of the logs off but this year with such continuous rain ,that the wind has driven  the damp  right across the width of the stack, has one else noticed the above happening to their wood stack.

[Whoppa Choppa]

As all the above really. Enough to make me want to quit the log life. Absolute battle. Customers not interested in genuine factors. Mega hardwood shortage this year too - well reasonably priced hardwood anyway. Kiln or die I reckon. 

[topchippyles]

On 05/11/2023 at 13:48, Whoppa Choppa said:

This thread is right on. My suspicion is that this winter will be similar to 2019-20 where we had 10 dry days between the end of September and end of Feb. The subsequent summer was really nice.

 

As above, a disaster for drying firewood and also for working the land / woods.

Call me daft but can you not process it and stack away from the wind. Surly you can sheet over from the rain i have 5 ton just cut up and been in the elements for 3 years. 

[topchippyles]

Just now, topchippyles said:

Call me daft but can you not process it and stack away from the wind. Surly you can sheet over from the rain i have 5 ton just cut up and been in the elements for 3 years. 

 

[Big J]

On 05/11/2023 at 14:48, Whoppa Choppa said:

This thread is right on. My suspicion is that this winter will be similar to 2019-20 where we had 10 dry days between the end of September and end of Feb. The subsequent summer was really nice.

 

As above, a disaster for drying firewood and also for working the land / woods.

 

It was actually that winter that was one of the reasons that influenced our decision to leave the UK. As a forestry worker, I just couldn't (mentally) handle the rain any more. We had to shut down our forestry site for a month due to it being so wet that it was unworkable. 

 

We had 4-5 weeks of very damp weather here October into November. It was grey and drizzled a lot. Minimal wind though. 

 

 

[Martin du Preez]

8 hours ago, cessna said:

I am now finding that although I have the top of my wood stack covered with ,ex bulker lorry tarpaulins ,that the weather has been so wet and damp that the wood is getting damper even in the middle of the stack.What I am meaning is that the stack is approx 2.4mtr wide, and the damp seems to have crept right across the width of the 2.4mtr wide stack!!!!!!! Most years the ends of the logs get wet but one normally gets a few dry days with a wind to dry the ends of the logs off but this year with such continuous rain ,that the wind has driven  the damp  right across the width of the stack, has one else noticed the above happening to their wood stack.

You telling me, we’ve moved our timber yard so until the new barn gets built we’ve got lorry tarps, big open land on top of a hill, still getting damp and wet. Normally they’d be bloody dry without a tarp. Having to move them up the road to a barn

[nepia]

Same here and I'm in the 'dry' part of the country.  

I'm sure clients think I'm even more full of it than usual when I tell them the logs were drier in September than they are now and that they feel wet because they've re-absorbed moisture from the air.

I advise people to keep their logs in the house near the fire/burner for a few days before actually burning them

 

I've been doing logs since 2005 and the last 18 months I'd say have been the worst for drying:  when it hasn't been actually raining the air has been still or thereabouts