Seasoning.. In your opinion

[dave fox]

i try and store all my wood a good 6months in pallet boxes , these realy seem to air the logs, but also protects from the elements

[chestnut]

no sweet chestnut on your list ???

 

we sell s.chest to wood burners and hardwood mix to open fire clients ( our mix is actually limited - as we don't buy in, it's just what we have available from previous years fellings etc - and that is usually ash, sycamore, laurel, birch, hornbeam, oak - maybe fruit like wild cherry or wild plum)

 

we season sweet chestnut for 2, 3 or more years (we have a chestnut copse so space nor stock is really a concern to us)

 

laurel, birch and sycamore are lovely on open fires - and take only 6 to 12 months to dry out for a good burn - but they do decompose very quickly if not treated right so they are not a good medium to hang on to long term (ship it in and ship it out) - the chestnut on the other hand can sit on the wood floor for 20 yrs or more and burn as bright as anything - that's why we will never run out (for our client base anyway )

[dave fox]

no sweet chestnut on your list ???

 

we sell s.chest to wood burners and hardwood mix to open fire clients ( our mix is actually limited - as we don't buy in, it's just what we have available from previous years fellings etc - and that is usually ash, sycamore, laurel, birch, hornbeam, oak - maybe fruit like wild cherry or wild plum)

 

we season sweet chestnut for 2, 3 or more years (we have a chestnut copse so space nor stock is really a concern to us)

 

laurel, birch and sycamore are lovely on open fires - and take only 6 to 12 months to dry out for a good burn - but they do decompose very quickly if not treated right so they are not a good medium to hang on to long term (ship it in and ship it out) - the chestnut on the other hand can sit on the wood floor for 20 yrs or more and burn as bright as anything - that's why we will never run out (for our client base anyway )

20 yrs or more thats a hella long time, dose it go light when seasond that long?

[sandbach-sticks]

I have found that in small potato crates facing the sun stacked 6 high insures logs season really quickly, only have a couple of years experience but the sooner you log it and get it off the ground with good air circulation then you can dry wood quickly. We managed to get oak below 25% moisture content in 6 mnths! Eucalyptus still took 18 mnths in crates. Also depends what time of year the wood was cut, we always use a moisture meter and wood with good air flow below seems to season much quicker, when we run out of boxes we use the boxes as walls and cover an area with pallets then store logs on these, this has made a massive difference in the time it takes to season any wood we get!

[likeitorlumpit]

It's gotta depend on how sunny/windy it is where u are storing them.

Also what time of year they were cut.

The idea of treating each type of wood specially is in my opinion a waste of time(with some exceptions obviously)

[Cracker]

For my own stoves (2x10kW) I cut in the dry "break" we get every year around the end of Feb, split it, stack it in the woods uncovered, then start bringing it up to store undercover end of Sept. All of it burns without that horrible hiss

and it is usually a mix of oak, holly, hazel, birch and alder.