Gurrman

You guys are terrific. Thank you. I'll return today and split what remains. Is there any way I can be smart and discard logs that may seem suspicious? Are there any signs I can look for - actual, moving insects on the piece of wood? a particular color? etc.? Or are they more hidden/"beneath" what one can see?

Hahaha your replies. Believe it or not, I won't catfish you. My question is indeed serious. ? Perfect, okay. So you'd advise me taking the whole god damn stack, splitting it, stacking it, and then going about my life happily? And that anything I may regard as rot, that I should leave that to the drying process once stacked? The matter is just - and there's a risk that this rekindles your belief in the non-validity of this post, lol... I fear that bringing wood that has been embraced by insects for a long period of time, if they bring that wood into their house (wood that I've split), that those insects will fester in their home? Or funghi etc.? Thanks guys. ❤️ /A Swede who's finally stepping out of the comforts of the 21st century, and slowly starts inhabiting his heritage

I had no idea there was a forum specifically for this. Needless to say, I appreciate your existence a lot. :-) I helped a customer of mine split firewood the other day, out of the logs from a cut-down tree. I'm not sure how long the logs had been laying where they had, but I'm guessing a few months, perhaps even a year or so. Perhaps longer, I'm not entirely sure. I've split about 75% of the wood, but I'm not sure about the usage of the remaining 25% nor the usage of all of the 75% I've already split. Some facts: - Within the pile of logs, an anthill has arisen. I've left the logs closest to the anthill, as there are a lot of insects there due to the dirt and so. Might I be wrong here; should I use this wood, too? - Some of the firewood, when I split it, has a green-ish tint to it. Should I leave these? - Some of the firewood has/had, on its side as well as on it's top and bottom, some small funghi. I cut that away. Should I leave these pieces of wood entirely, you think? - Some of the logs, I just cannot manage to penetrate. I've swung the axe at them dozens of time, but they just won't budge. Do you think I can get them if I keep pounding, or do some need more time to mature? Also, are there cases in which part of a log has begun to rot, and I can remove this part and use the other parts of it? I feel like this partial-rottenness may be the case in some of the logs. Thank you guys. Your help is more of value to me than you might think. Warm regards, Gustav from Sweden