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.