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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

On Jan 15, 2009, at 10:39 AM, VAN DELL JORDAN wrote:

> If you can cut allow the wood to season for a longer time, is  
> splitting necissary at all?
> In that case you might cut wood and stack for a couple of years  
> before burning?

Such wood will certainly burn. Small sticks will burn better than big  
rounds. Round sticks do not burn as well as split wood because of  
surface-to-flame percentage.

Optimal seasoning depends on species, size of chunks, weather, surface  
of drying area, protection from rain. Stacking wood on moist Midwest  
ground ensures rot initiation in about two years.

Gene GeRue
www.RURALIZE.com