March 16, 2013 - Give her some wood!

SPUCK · 03-17-2013, 12:52 AM

Wet firewood can cause heavy creosote build-up in chimneys that can eventually ignite with disastrous results. To get the moisture out of firewood people typically just stack firewood up in rectangular stacks.

But some people - add some extra class.

Clodfobble · 03-17-2013, 07:05 AM

So how come the wood doesn't stay wet, being stored outside in the snow? Even if it's on a covered porch or in a shed or whatever, it seems like the air is still pretty damp.

Griff · 03-17-2013, 07:47 AM

Cold air holds less moisture. So what you want is airflow through your wood pile, any organized stack that minimizes constant exposure to water will do okay. I have a slat sided woodshed with a roof to maximize air flow and minimize the precipitation exposure. Everybody has a preferred method. This guy has a good one, but I've done this done on pallets with a perforated pipe up the middle to increase air flow.

orthodoc · 03-17-2013, 07:14 AM

As long as air can get around all of it, it'll dry. You also orient the pieces on the top with the bark side up, to shed water.

Those are amazing! Okay, I may be ortho the easily amazed but those woodpiles are art. It wouldn't even have occurred to me to create images like that. It would make me sad to take them apart to use the wood ...

footfootfoot · 03-17-2013, 12:54 PM

Without getting into an extensively technical treatise on wood and moisture content (remember the cucumbers? It's more complicated than that) Freshly cut wood has a lot of water, some of it is bound up int the cells and some is "free" i.e. between the cells.

The Moisture content of the wood is significantly greater than that of the air and the moisture of the wood eventually reaches equilibrium with the air (or very close)

Once the bound water leaves the cell, it doesn't really enter the cell again, it mostly will saturate the wood fibers between the cells. It doesn't take a whole lot of air circulation to dry out wood. Wood loses most if its moisture through the end grain, not through the side grain. Stacking the wood on its side with the ends exposed to air will bring the wood to equilibrium MC pretty quickly. Especially in winter.

Gravdigr · 03-17-2013, 03:06 PM

I give Baby wood.

But she gives it to me first.

ZenGum · 03-17-2013, 06:09 PM

I would feel ashamed to pull those wood stacks apart.

Also, those first ones look kind of dangerous, as in wood-slipping-off-the-top and whacking-you-on-the-head dangerous.

Aliantha · 03-17-2013, 06:30 PM

It's been a long time since I've seen that much wood in one place.

footfootfoot · 03-17-2013, 08:15 PM

You Australians have been profligate with your forests lately, haven't you? Or is that conflagrate?

Aliantha · 03-17-2013, 08:38 PM

Well, there really wasn't that much wood here when us white fellas arrived in the first place, but we've done our best to get rid of what we found.

Luckily for our gum trees, they're not much good for anything except feeding koalas and providing shade and keeping soil together, so they get left in peace mostly. The wood is not even that great to burn because of the eucalyptus causing it to explode more than other wood.

xoxoxoBruce · 03-18-2013, 02:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Aliantha

The wood is not even that great to burn because of the eucalyptus causing it to explode more than other wood.

Jesus, fish that eat boats, crocs that can swallow a car, spiders that eat sheep, venomous everything, drop bears, road trains, and exploding firewood.

SPUCK · 03-18-2013, 02:29 AM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Jesus, fish that eat boats, crocs that can swallow a car, spiders that eat sheep, venomous everything, drop bears, road trains, and exploding firewood.

You forgot Dingos that steal babies.

xoxoxoBruce · 03-18-2013, 02:31 AM

Oh shit, that's right.

sandypossum · 03-18-2013, 11:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Aliantha

Luckily for our gum trees, they're not much good for anything except feeding koalas and providing shade and keeping soil together, so they get left in peace mostly. The wood is not even that great to burn because of the eucalyptus causing it to explode more than other wood.

I'm with Zen on this. we live in the sticks and in our area about half the homes are heated by wood stove, and the best (and most expensive, if you buy it in) is red gum. Yellow box (another local eucalypt) is the second best around here. Haven't heard of any of it exploding.

Also, there are loads of eucalyptus plantations in Victoria.

xoxoxoBruce · 03-18-2013, 01:00 PM

Probably depends on how dry it is, and how small it's split. I've seen other types of wood explode, especially conifers.

03-17-2013, 12:52 AM	#1
SPUCK Professor Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 1,911	March 16, 2013 - Give her some wood! Wet firewood can cause heavy creosote build-up in chimneys that can eventually ignite with disastrous results. To get the moisture out of firewood people typically just stack firewood up in rectangular stacks. But some people - add some extra class.

03-17-2013, 07:05 AM	#2
Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	So how come the wood doesn't stay wet, being stored outside in the snow? Even if it's on a covered porch or in a shed or whatever, it seems like the air is still pretty damp. __________________ My book My other book My spirit animal

03-17-2013, 07:47 AM	#3
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Cold air holds less moisture. So what you want is airflow through your wood pile, any organized stack that minimizes constant exposure to water will do okay. I have a slat sided woodshed with a roof to maximize air flow and minimize the precipitation exposure. Everybody has a preferred method. This guy has a good one, but I've done this done on pallets with a perforated pipe up the middle to increase air flow. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis Last edited by Griff; 03-17-2013 at 07:48 AM. Reason: late to post cuz i took a phone call before clicking so ortho said it

03-17-2013, 07:14 AM	#4
orthodoc Not Suspicious, Merely Canadian Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 3,774	As long as air can get around all of it, it'll dry. You also orient the pieces on the top with the bark side up, to shed water. Those are amazing! Okay, I may be ortho the easily amazed but those woodpiles are art. It wouldn't even have occurred to me to create images like that. It would make me sad to take them apart to use the wood ... __________________ The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. - Ghandi

03-17-2013, 12:54 PM	#5
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	Without getting into an extensively technical treatise on wood and moisture content (remember the cucumbers? It's more complicated than that) Freshly cut wood has a lot of water, some of it is bound up int the cells and some is "free" i.e. between the cells. The Moisture content of the wood is significantly greater than that of the air and the moisture of the wood eventually reaches equilibrium with the air (or very close) Once the bound water leaves the cell, it doesn't really enter the cell again, it mostly will saturate the wood fibers between the cells. It doesn't take a whole lot of air circulation to dry out wood. Wood loses most if its moisture through the end grain, not through the side grain. Stacking the wood on its side with the ends exposed to air will bring the wood to equilibrium MC pretty quickly. Especially in winter. __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

03-17-2013, 03:06 PM	#6
Gravdigr The Un-Tuckian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: South Central...KY that is Posts: 39,517	I give Baby wood. But she gives it to me first. __________________ These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. These statements are not intended to diagnose, cause, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. If you feel you have been harmed/offended by, or, disagree with any of the above statements or images, please feel free to fuck right off.

03-17-2013, 06:09 PM	#7
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	I would feel ashamed to pull those wood stacks apart. Also, those first ones look kind of dangerous, as in wood-slipping-off-the-top and whacking-you-on-the-head dangerous. __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

03-17-2013, 06:30 PM	#8
Aliantha trying hard to be a better person Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 16,493	It's been a long time since I've seen that much wood in one place. __________________ Kind words are the music of the world. F. W. Faber

03-17-2013, 08:15 PM	#9
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	You Australians have been profligate with your forests lately, haven't you? Or is that conflagrate? __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

03-17-2013, 08:38 PM	#10
Aliantha trying hard to be a better person Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 16,493	Well, there really wasn't that much wood here when us white fellas arrived in the first place, but we've done our best to get rid of what we found. Luckily for our gum trees, they're not much good for anything except feeding koalas and providing shade and keeping soil together, so they get left in peace mostly. The wood is not even that great to burn because of the eucalyptus causing it to explode more than other wood. __________________ Kind words are the music of the world. F. W. Faber

03-18-2013, 02:31 AM	#13
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Oh shit, that's right. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

03-18-2013, 01:00 PM	#15
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Probably depends on how dry it is, and how small it's split. I've seen other types of wood explode, especially conifers. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

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