Benny and I just did a five-mile hike. While out there in the mountains I thought up this ditty just for you:
FIREWOOD If you want steam, then wetter is better; If you want heat,
then drier is finer.
Since it is our sweat that goes into cutting loading hauling splitting stacking and moving wood, I want it to be just right. I
want it to be good and heavy when I pick in up, not light and
airy.
I keep reading that your body is hurting. Do you really prefer to handle heavier wood?
The more I have to open the woodstove to put in wood, the more heat
I lose up the flue. I have an old woodstove, no blowers, no fans,,,,it just burns wood and heats up the stove/rocks so that
heat radiates.
Does your stove have an air-inlet control, a damper?
second one either at the back of the stove or in the flu pipe?
woodstove gods made dampers to control the flow of air.
input means a slow-burning fire. Yes, with dry wood. Now, if the
stove is real leaky, then yes, the wood would burn faster.
Drying depends on humidity and exposure to air flow. The best wood shed has minimal siding; many are open-sided. Fastest firewood drying
is single-depth rows with chunk ends to the prevailing wind, covered
with roofing tin and rocks to hold the tin on.
the woodshed packed with wood is more bug-prone than open rows
exposed to the winds.
<snicker>And go ahead and persist..<g>..
Oh, good. I was nervous about whether you were going to be defensive
and all that kind of difficult stuff.
Here's my last thought for now: splitting and stacking wood during cold winter weather is easier on the body than during warmer weather.
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