What is seasoned?

[moses123]

i done delivery today and customer had tester it read 38 some 25 i told her shes a lucky girl

[Cookie]

I think there's to much paranoia involved with mc, aided by the fact unless you have a very expensive meter its never going to be too near the mark anyway!? nether is it something you can put a time scale on as said before every bit of wood is different as are the drying seasons. If it looks dry and feels dry then its seasoned in my book and it works for me.

[Crazy Cutter]

Worked with a french guy a few weeks ago, he told us where he came from, a bark remover is used late spring to ring bark trees destined for firewood (thinnings I presumed), and then the tree is left to die and season on the stump,(at least 1-2 years I think), when felled it is ready to split and burn, would save a lot of problems with storage space needed to dry out stacks of timber.

Anyone heard of this?

 

I said about this a few weeks ago but nobody thought it was a good idea as beech would be too brittle for a processor! My best wood is squirrel killed i just struggle to kill the trees no matter how deep i cut?

[Dean Lofthouse]

Just googled this up..... there's a lot of chemicals in wood!

http://burningissues.org/pdfs/tablewoodsmokeweightnov02%20.pdf

 

There's some good stuff in that there wood Tom including some good trace elements. We,ll have to start having it for Sunday lunch

 

 

Sent from my iPhone cos it was

[StephF]

I said about this a few weeks ago but nobody thought it was a good idea as beech would be too brittle for a processor! My best wood is squirrel killed i just struggle to kill the trees no matter how deep i cut?

 

I'm not sure what species he was talking about, I shall have to ask..

[shanks]

I was told some time ago by a proper old-timer that the trees they used tu cut were always felled in late spring/early summer and then left for a month or so before snedding and processing further.

 

The reasoning was that the trees in full leaf would desperately try and stay alive and pulled much of the moisture out of the wood as they were just in full leaf. They'd then cut them after the leaves had died off.

 

I don't know how much moisture would be removed but I'd guess a fair bit?

 

Anyone tried this?

(sorry for the derail)

 

This method is mentioned in the 'Gransfors' book. Not tryed it myself but the logic sounds good, and you would think the swedes know a thing or two about fire wood and keeping warm.