I just flat don't know. My gut feeling is that split wood after two years will be at the average 24-hour humidity for the last month. How much wetter the unsplit wood might be, I just don't know. Smaller pieces of wood react more quickly to ambient humidity.
Ron's a woodworker. Maybe he has or can borrow a moisture meter. Or you can do it the hard way: weigh pieces, then cook them dry in your oven, then weigh again, then do the math.
Btw, again just for you I have been researching. Some people say that, yes, wood can be too dry to be good firewood. But it seems that too dry means kiln dried or in a desert area with extreme low humidity.
As with woodworking wood, simple air drying only takes wood moisture content down to about 20-30 percent. That is suitable firewood humidity. Area weather does make a difference. Weather in the Northwest can make wood too wet to burn. Weather here in Phoenix makes wood too dry. I brought back a big chunk of sycamore for my neighbor- friend here and in only a couple months it had already split too much to be used as a cutting block.
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