I figured it wouldn’t. It was cut and split in August, we had almost no rain and it’s in the sun all day. My Fisher would have burned it by now but the new stove wants under 15% to do anything. I have tons of ash and poplar but at 2 degrees and three hours of burn time out of a load it’s gonna be a rough week.
What are you going to burn it in? For example, an epa rated stove with a cat has far different moisture content requirements than a basic outdoor wood boiler.
You can throw all the shade you want at the epa “shít”, but when I put my Woodstock ideal steel in I went from burning 7 full cord a year to 3.5-4. I have friends with gasifier wood boilers who have seen similar wood use reductions. Regardless of what he’s burning it in he has a better chance of burning snowballs than oak that was only cut less than 6 months ago.
Did the moisture content of the wood burned also change when switching stoves/boilers?
Nope. 15ish percent moisture content. All three years split and stacked as I’m on the 3 year plan. Which means I’m at least 3 years ahead on my firewood.
Hence my question to the op
I had giant yellow jackets coming out of the wood last year. Only spiders and gnats this year
A drolet escape. It’s not a cat stove but is picky about wood to get good heat.
I significantly reduced my wood consumption going from the fisher to the drolet. This is only my third year here so the first years wood is dwindling and the current good wood is mostly ash and poplar. With everything going on and all the trees that had to come down here I didn’t have time to cut better wood elsewhere. Next year there should be about four cords ready to go. I have a pile of oak decking from a crane truck I redid I can mix in.
Where did you purchase? I might be replacing a whipped out Country Hearth this year.
