People have been taught to split firewood, then stack it to dry. I will show you why sometimes it’s best to do the opposite. I like to stack and dry the firewood first, then split it right before I burn it. I will show you several advantages to stacking firewood this way. Some of the advantages involve both keeping the wood dry, as well as saving a lot of work.
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I totally thought the splitting eggs was a rhetorical self correction statement of some sorts lol
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Follow your Bliss
I feel like if i cut ,split,stack in spring. I have great burning wood in winter. If i did this i would have to dry two years instead. Also wood gets a fermented smell if left unsplit. No big deal. Mostly oak, ash, maple. In northern michigan.
I do it like this, and it works well because I have the space to let it sit a little longer and under a cover. Like you say "plenty dry"
The wood still doesn't dry properly.
Wouldn’t they dry quicker with them spit?
for efficiency reasons, i don't handle oven ready firewood at all: i either bring long logs or 1 meter logs from forest to yard, make them 1m pieces using a chainsaw on the yard, splitting these meters, put splitted meters into boxes containing 1 1/2m3 right when splitting. I can move these boxes via forklift, store them and bring them to my rocking circular saw, where i saw them to 25cm length very quick and efficient. Sawn wood goes into other wire mesh boxes, each 2,25 m3 and tiltable via forklift. got plenty hundreds of them, can stack them 5 or 6 wise. Wood dries very fast in these boxes, because they are not stacked dense, theres plenty of air between the wood. When selling the wood, I only need to dump out the boxes on a trailer. Using a forklift.
It's been said often enough, but just for good measure: I rather have it dry faster than invest another hour in stacking. Not everybody has a truckload or five or firewood.
When you said "softwood" I figured the reason we always split and then stacked is that we use hardwood for firewood in PA, and that was correct. Good idea though. Some hardwoods, like ash (gone) or soft maple, I would consider stacking and then splitting them anyway because they are light enough and the round logs seem to dry out and spilt very well.
I'm pretty sure half your subscribers are people that just want to argue with you. 😂😂
I got the gist of the video in the first 30 seconds : don't move materials more times than you have to.
It's common sense, but we all relearn common sense and how to apply it in different things that we do everyday. Just another reminder to practice your principles in everything that you do on life.
Why split wood burns longer hole not in little pieces
A round is good piece of wood to bank a fire overnight. Splitting firewood has it burns faster.
Then you are double handling it. Make your mom stack her own wood…
Good advice BUT……….you cannot do that with Osage Orange (Hedge Apple) wood. It grows on my property in Kansas. GREAT burning fire wood. EXTREMELY HARD. When you cut it down you need to split the wood while it is still wet on the inside otherwise it is WAYYY to hard to cut and split. I have even seen it make sparks when I cut it with my chainsaw.
I don't get this video. Why would you stack splitted wood right away? You leave it in a pile to dry and you stack it when it's dry. Stacking wet wood to 'dry' doesn't make any sense, you'll only get mold if you do that (as can be seen in this video).
Pretty heavy if its hardwood , better split and dry .
Redefining lazy and dumb
I split ASAP so the wood is seasoned for the following year. I cover the stacks by September. I burn 5 to 6 cords a year. I dont wait until the fall to prepare for winter.
At first I thought this guy was serious, then I read some of the comments, now I’m thinking he was joking? 🤔 I’m slow so please help me out here, people 😅
Ya but you got to split and restack it
Wtf.Goose
Makes good sense, thanks for the advice
So this is what Tim Blake Nelson does when he’s not making films!😂
I go to the forest cut standing dead or down dead, cut the rounds to my stove length,
Stack them in the truck to fit the most, get home throw them out in a pile, no stacking, split on demand enough to last a month,
I live in a 3 story 140 Yr old house, wood stove is our only source of heat, western slope colorado. been doing it like this for over 20yrs least amount of labor, when split the wood is nice and dry,
if I split first and stack the moisture gets into it easier
Yeah split wood is dryer and better to burn. I'll keep splitting and stacking.
I've been burning Wood for about ten years I used to stack da wood waisting valuable time when I could have split more 'stacking waist of time brother
that works for you but wouldn't here we have to split and pile ours inside in April or may to get it dry enough to burn come late October or November