wet logs

[face cord]

I'm burning some ash from my own woodshed that has been cut and seasoned about 18 months that was a windfall in the summer. The sap must have been up as it's been in the woodshed a year stacked up and split some of the smaller bits that were only split in half are still hissing a bit where the bark is thick...

 

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I don't see a problem of selling unseasoned or wet logs if the seller is honest & its reflected in the price....

[shooterjim]

Cheers for the chain cleaning advice! Will be easier than using the hot tank and mean I can keep chopping!

[Dave Martin]

I always thought and have been told that ash is the only wood that can be burnt straight from the tree? Dad burns some of my new stuff on his woodburner and he says it burns lovely) is it a myth?

 

Its a myth. Been there got the t shirt. Just logged an ash tree that I had felled and ringed over a year ago and its still not ready when split into logs, reading 34 and sits and smolders.

[skyhuck]

Its a myth. Been there got the t shirt. Just logged an ash tree that I had felled and ringed over a year ago and its still not ready when split into logs, reading 34 and sits and smolders.

 

I have burn many tonnes of green Ash, often the same day it was felled, it does burn very well, far better than other green timber, but it will tar up the stove glass and your flue.

[New Forest Firewood Co]

my experience with ash is it depends on when it was felled and if it grew fast or slow. If I remember from my timber tech days quick grown ash is much stronger than slow grown ash due to the proportion of early wood laid down in the ring to late wood. It must be this ratio perhaps that leads to variability in how "green" ash burns perhaps?

 

like i said earlier - i have some summer fallen ash that is seasoned a couple of yrs in my shed for home use that is still a bit moist where it's had thick bark.

 

other ash i've had has been dry within months...

 

i wouldnt rely on burning green ash.