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  • From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
  • To: vdjor AT yahoo.com, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Firewood
  • Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:49:53 -0700


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








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