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I'm sure Andrew has been at this for a while. That's why I was curious about the storage. When temps drop, so does humidity. Weather gets very dry, so with the wind, the wood dries much faster. For USA that is...lol
 

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Just thinking outloud here. I would think you would get better, drier wood if you had it outside, under a covered "lean-to". The cold air dries wood much better than being inside with no air flow based on my prior experiences.
How is it working for you AJ?

Jeff All my wood is stacked out on the edge of the forest for 2-3 years then
The end of the summer I always bring several tons in to a open barn
Then cut it up on dry days cos we’re the same as Wes a lot of humidity most of the winter

The last few days it’s been dry and breezy so perfect weather too bring wood home my shed here is facing south west with a open front so plenty of wind blowing west to east and vice versa

Big Beech and big ash stays outside and I can play saws with this stuff
 

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I'm sure Andrew has a barn if needs be. It's a lot

I dunno about Andrew over in England, but it's 36* here where I am in Ireland and 80* humidity. We mainly use barns and stables to store our wood. We have one lean to, but that's really a reappropriated breeze way.

Yeah the same here most of the winter the animal sheds and barns are covered with condensation
 

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Nice AJ. Very interesting on the differences we both encounter.
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I'm sure Andrew has been at this for a while. That's why I was curious about the storage. When temps drop, so does humidity. Weather gets very dry, so with the wind, the wood dries much faster. For USA that is...lol


Jeff Iam always amazed at how much drier your land and air is when the different photos get posted from the different states on here
 

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I bought one of the moisture meters. Pretty interesting when I went and tested several piles I had stacked.
Some under the lean-to, some in Holzhausen piles stacked 2 different ways, and some just stacked traditional.
 

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Nice AJ. Very interesting on the differences we both encounter.
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Yeah true Jeff the last few years I’ve found that birch , poplar , Sitka , alder
All the softer ones you can’t leave them lying around too long it’ll sleep away pretty quick

I usualy chop that up in summer and ship out to the log merchants
Can’t be dealing with customers let them do that
 

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I bought one of the moisture meters. Pretty interesting when I went and tested several piles I had stacked.
Some under the lean-to, some in Holzhausen piles stacked 2 different ways, and some just stacked traditional.

Yes I’ve often wondered about those meters never used one
Do you think there accurate
 

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I bought one of the moisture meters. Pretty interesting when I went and tested several piles I had stacked.
Some under the lean-to, some in Holzhausen piles stacked 2 different ways, and some just stacked traditional.
So what were your results?
 

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I will try and redo the checks again. But most of my wood was under 10%. Single digits under my lean-to.
I just got the meter and have limited experience.
I am looking for members with more experience to chime in.
 

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I will try and redo the checks again. But most of my wood was under 10%. Single digits under my lean-to.
I just got the meter and have limited experience.
I am looking for members with more experience to chime in.

I have one, but we only use it to rotate our wood if we feel we had to since we can bring it back a bit haphazardly when there is windfall or storms, or when we are going to sell it just to make sure. But by now I can simply tell looking at it and hefting it whether it is seasoned or not.

I don't think the ambient humidity here ever dips below 25 or so. Unless we have a particularly hot and dry summer, it usually takes 2 years to season most woods. UK and Ireland are islands. We're fed directly by the gulf flow. So we rarely have a hard freeze outside of the north even though we're at nearly the same latitude as northern Canada, eh. But it does help to keep our skin nice and moisturized. We also get plenty of random from the med. So it is rarely truly dry here. I do recall one summer, maybe 2013, where I actually saw dust here and was a bit surprised.

Where we are, in the Suir valley, the wind can get bad during the winter storms. So all our barns that perpendicular to the river have slats on the windy side. This allows a bit of rain in, but the wind does a pretty good job drying wood out most the time.

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The breezeway lean-to. Back of it faces the storm winds. It does OK drying the wood, tho. Even so, you'll notice it doesn't look particularly dry.

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Much of what ya see above is from this dude:

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Nice! Interesting. I am right on the coast, but very different here.
Do you always just toss wood into the roofed structures, vs stacking it neatly? I think when nicely stacked, it helps with shedding moisture. Air flow is better.
I generally have my wood under the roof for 2 to 3 years prior to burning as well...
 

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I have one, but we only use it to rotate our wood if we feel we had to since we can bring it back a bit haphazardly when there is windfall or storms, or when we are going to sell it just to make sure. But by now I can simply tell looking at it and hefting it whether it is seasoned or not.

I don't think the ambient humidity here ever dips below 25 or so. Unless we have a particularly hot and dry summer, it usually takes 2 years to season most woods. UK and Ireland are islands. We're fed directly by the gulf flow. So we rarely have a hard freeze outside of the north even though we're at nearly the same latitude as northern Canada, eh. But it does help to keep our skin nice and moisturized. We also get plenty of random from the med. So it is rarely truly dry here. I do recall one summer, maybe 2013, where I actually saw dust here and was a bit surprised.

Where we are, in the Suir valley, the wind can get bad during the winter storms. So all our barns that perpendicular to the river have slats on the windy side. This allows a bit of rain in, but the wind does a pretty good job drying wood out most the time.

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The breezeway lean-to. Back of it faces the storm winds. It does OK drying the wood, tho. Even so, you'll notice it doesn't look particularly dry.

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Much of what ya see above is from this dude:

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I always say if you stand still long enough you’ll go green
 

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Nice! Interesting. I am right on the coast, but very different here.
Do you always just toss wood into the roofed structures, vs stacking it neatly? I think when nicely stacked, it helps with shedding moisture. Air flow is better.
I generally have my wood under the roof for 2 to 3 years prior to burning as well...

Your on the best side of the Atlantic flow your offshore wind is our onshore wet wind
 

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Nice! Interesting. I am right on the coast, but very different here.
Do you always just toss wood into the roofed structures, vs stacking it neatly? I think when nicely stacked, it helps with shedding moisture. Air flow is better.
I generally have my wood under the roof for 2 to 3 years prior to burning as well...

I will neatly stack it in small spaces, like some stables a few locals use:

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But for us, we go through, and make so much firewood, I ain't got time fo dat. If you look at the lean-to, that wood is piled 8 feet high and 20-40 feet way from the splitter(and it does have pallets raising it above the ground and from the wall for air flow). So ya grab the wood, split the lil bastards to either fireplace size(18 X 3-4") or wood stove (12 X 2-3"), and chuck it to the top of the stack. What you see there is a couple days of work behind the tractor there. Ah, found a pic where you can see them:

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All the wood you see here went in to the shed directly in the back there:

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We also use a different shed for small rounds since they burn well in the stove and in the gatehouse lodge stove. It's just me being a bit OCD.

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One of the houses can take 2 foot pieces of wood. Those I put in one of the barns and stack relatively nicely, I guess...

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This stuff lived in this draw for 6 months before we processed it(where I placed long Scots Pine branches on bottom to keep most of it dry...ish...):


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This was one of the first dead oaks I processed on the estate. There are still a few at least this big laying about waiting for me. Just kickin it.

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SOmetimes they fall in one of our fields up the mountain. Hopefully the tractor can make it.

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Sometimes ya gotta bring em down.

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