I wouldn't worry about it. I keep mine on pallets and cover the top, but snow and strong rain can still get them wet. My neighbour keeps his in a shed, and he likes to tell me that I should do the same. I don't... because outside the wood gets airflow. In a shed it doesn't, which from my experience is a lot worse than outdoor wood getting hit by the odd rain shower. You can test this theory by putting a piece of seasoned wood in a bucket of water for a day. It will not reabsorb water and return to an 'unseasoned' state, it will simply be a seasoned log, that got wet, and will dry off very quickly (usually within 24 hours in a warm environment). A lot of professional firewood yards have so much wood that they don't even bother covering the top. This is how they get away with it, and why it isn't a problem. :) My neighbour is the one burning damp wood this winter lol, not me.
Not sure why you would need a dehumidifier running in the winter. With that wood stove running and the low outdoor humidity I wood imagine it wood dry out just fine naturally. I do bring in a nice amount of wood to get to room temp before I throw it in the fireplace. I have found that keeping a bit of wood in the house and letting it get to room temp makes a big difference. Agree with having a moisture meter. Great video.
Excellent point that I should clarify. Our basement is actually two sections - basically two separate basements. The side with the wood burner stays below 30% humidity most of the winter. But the other side can sometimes be in the 60-70% humidity range even in the winter. It's also the area I hang any wet outside clothing - so having the dehumidifier run in that side of the basement dries everything out faster. Definitely the wood that I put in the wood burner side of the basement dries out pretty quickly. Sometimes just a couple hours.
WET wood will dry quickly, as long as it has airflow and isnt sitting in moisture. If you want to burn it now, move it under shelter, and bring a few armloads inside by the stove. Covering the top to prevent water from sitting and soaking in is the key. If the ends get rained on, no biggie- theyll dry fast, once it quits raining. Thats why we stack it- so most of the exposed surfaces are vertcal. Water has a high surface tension, and most will just run off. The lil bit of surface wet, will dry easily. I put wet pieces up on my covered porch. It gets lots of wind blowing from 1 end through the other, and is deep enough to keep rain and snow off. Certain spots will dry wood astonishingly fast. I bought a load of oak last month that was just like yours. Wind got u der the tarp, and flipped it off- then it poured for 2 days... the top pieces were wet, as were the bottoms (stacked on ground, not pallets...). The centers were fine. I just left the wet ones on the porch when i put it away. They dried up LONG before i even put a dent in the rest Best advice for dry wood? A shed or your garage! If thats not feasable, put it somewhere away from drips and dribbles( NOT under an eave or tree, lol), and where sun and wind can get to it, to dry any surface wet as it comes. And keep it off the ground!!! Cover the top, so rain and snow cant sit on it and soak in, but the stack can still breathe.
If you stack the totes touching each other you limit the exposed sides that can get wet. I make 2 rows 2 high, and put tin roofing over the top. Best way to dry them is put them by a wood stove. The whole tote
@@PurpleCollarLife There you go. As soon as I realized an ibc tote would fit through the sliding door in my basement. It was a game changer. I touch a split piece of wood 2 times. Once into the tote, once into the stove.
In the winter when I bring wood on, sometimes the wood has snow on it or is wet in general. I store it on a rack near my wood stove and it dries fast. I usually keep.enough in the house for 2 days so if I bring some in that is a bit wet, I still have enough dry stuff for the night and by the time I need the snow covered stuff, it's dry
Thanks for watching! I actually thought about getting a more heavy duty version of a shoe rack (3-4 shelves high) and putting it in front of the wood stove in the basement. Then I could bring in wood and lay it on the layers of the rack and let the warm dry air surround each piece. That would dry it out quickly!
They do love apples. We have a few old apple trees that were part of the homestead on this land before I built my house. Those trees still produce some apples and the deer are constantly under them.
I think it depends where you are at here we split and put on ground dries just fine mother nature rain no problem snow either sell hundreds of thousands of dollars in firewood every year so to each it's own I burn the fresh split stuff in the steam wood burner on top the fire in outside wood burner just fine I have people who take it just after it was split tell them said will burn no problem 9:50
*Im over in the Poconos Pa. When splitting, never leave a piece larger in diameter than your fist, it'll season way way quicker. If you want "over nighters," drop some 6-8" trees or big limbs, and buck up the rounds, don't split em. Bark on good dead wood helps it stay dry. Bark on dead dead wood keeps it wet. Never used a moisture meter, fan or dehumidifier for fiirewood in my life. Fed 6 houses firewood for 30+ years (40+cord a year) from harvest to burn. Frozen wood burns better than thawed wet wood. So, if you stack uncovered, always keep it outside til you burn it. If you cover it thoroughly, then bring it in to thaw before you burn it.
I've never been to the Poconos. Can you believe it? I've traveled all around our country and never been to that part of our own state. Thanks for watching and sharing your experience.
Good Day Sir, Outstanding Team work ( fan and Dehumidifier ) to remove the humidity 👌👍🧐 You video is very informative Sir 🧐🧐👍Nice Feeding Station For The Deer Cheers 🍻🍻
Yes, this is a known problem that has no solution in this way of partial drying. If there is a lot of firewood and you want to use it dry (15-20%), then you should think about something more powerful and efficient. For example, an air conditioner. It quickly and efficiently dries air, nuts or probably firewood. Yes, I collected 110-115 kg of walnuts in the garden and put them to dry in plastic boxes. Somewhere in 2 weeks, they lost about 10-15 kg in weight, when I decided to sell them. Firstly, it is too much for me, and secondly, there was a good price from those who buy nuts. The same with firewood. If we use them to heat the house, then this is a lot of firewood and we should make a large, powerful and reliable dryer. So that well-dried firewood in the summer does not get wet again in the fall, as I did when it rained a lot. I think that it should be a container or a shed and there should be an air conditioner. Preferably connected from solar panels, but it still gives a good СOP of 4-5 in the summer, so it will also be quite effective from the network. Thus, we will get dry firewood very quickly and guaranteed in about a season, instead of 3 as usual. And no rain will spoil our efforts to split and dry firewood before the heating season.
Thanks for watching and leaving a comment. I've found the same thing (if we can manage to get a good sunny day or two in a row here in NW Pennsylvania.) :)
None of you folks must live in Western Washington State, where the official monopod is the Washington State Fighting Slug. If I were that careless around here,"Now What?" means that I balance on one foot, like a slug, and kick myself in the ass with the other foot for being too stupid or lazy to go and get a tarp before it started to rain - which can go on for weeks without let up long enough to even begin the drying out.
yea we got to dry that wood out we sure dont want to have to run to the woods and cut down some more live slow growing trees that are producing oxygen for the environment just so some one can have an ornamental fire in their fire place.
We don't cut down any live trees unless they're a danger to people or property. Any firewood we harvest is blowdowns or standing dead wood. Don't worry - we love our forest just as much as you do.
Thanks for the comment. As long as you give the wood time to get that surface moisture off - it’s not a big deal. But if you were to burn it like that (surface wet) in a catalytic wood stove - you would create unnecessary creosote build up and risk of future chimney fire. Wood that used for heat in a stove like ours needs to not only be properly seasoned and dried internally- but also dried from any surface moisture.
I wouldn't worry about it. I keep mine on pallets and cover the top, but snow and strong rain can still get them wet. My neighbour keeps his in a shed, and he likes to tell me that I should do the same. I don't... because outside the wood gets airflow. In a shed it doesn't, which from my experience is a lot worse than outdoor wood getting hit by the odd rain shower.
You can test this theory by putting a piece of seasoned wood in a bucket of water for a day. It will not reabsorb water and return to an 'unseasoned' state, it will simply be a seasoned log, that got wet, and will dry off very quickly (usually within 24 hours in a warm environment). A lot of professional firewood yards have so much wood that they don't even bother covering the top. This is how they get away with it, and why it isn't a problem. :)
My neighbour is the one burning damp wood this winter lol, not me.
Excellent explanation!
Not sure why you would need a dehumidifier running in the winter. With that wood stove running and the low outdoor humidity I wood imagine it wood dry out just fine naturally. I do bring in a nice amount of wood to get to room temp before I throw it in the fireplace. I have found that keeping a bit of wood in the house and letting it get to room temp makes a big difference. Agree with having a moisture meter. Great video.
Excellent point that I should clarify. Our basement is actually two sections - basically two separate basements. The side with the wood burner stays below 30% humidity most of the winter. But the other side can sometimes be in the 60-70% humidity range even in the winter. It's also the area I hang any wet outside clothing - so having the dehumidifier run in that side of the basement dries everything out faster.
Definitely the wood that I put in the wood burner side of the basement dries out pretty quickly. Sometimes just a couple hours.
WET wood will dry quickly, as long as it has airflow and isnt sitting in moisture. If you want to burn it now, move it under shelter, and bring a few armloads inside by the stove. Covering the top to prevent water from sitting and soaking in is the key. If the ends get rained on, no biggie- theyll dry fast, once it quits raining. Thats why we stack it- so most of the exposed surfaces are vertcal. Water has a high surface tension, and most will just run off. The lil bit of surface wet, will dry easily.
I put wet pieces up on my covered porch. It gets lots of wind blowing from 1 end through the other, and is deep enough to keep rain and snow off. Certain spots will dry wood astonishingly fast. I bought a load of oak last month that was just like yours. Wind got u der the tarp, and flipped it off- then it poured for 2 days... the top pieces were wet, as were the bottoms (stacked on ground, not pallets...). The centers were fine. I just left the wet ones on the porch when i put it away. They dried up LONG before i even put a dent in the rest
Best advice for dry wood? A shed or your garage! If thats not feasable, put it somewhere away from drips and dribbles( NOT under an eave or tree, lol), and where sun and wind can get to it, to dry any surface wet as it comes. And keep it off the ground!!! Cover the top, so rain and snow cant sit on it and soak in, but the stack can still breathe.
I'm hoping to build a wood shed next summer for some better wood storage. :)
If you stack the totes touching each other you limit the exposed sides that can get wet. I make 2 rows 2 high, and put tin roofing over the top.
Best way to dry them is put them by a wood stove. The whole tote
I'd love to get a cart that I could set the IBC tote on with my pallet forks - then I could put them on the cart and wheel them into the basement.
@@PurpleCollarLife
There you go. As soon as I realized an ibc tote would fit through the sliding door in my basement. It was a game changer.
I touch a split piece of wood 2 times. Once into the tote, once into the stove.
@@dand33911 That's always the goal. :)
In the winter when I bring wood on, sometimes the wood has snow on it or is wet in general. I store it on a rack near my wood stove and it dries fast. I usually keep.enough in the house for 2 days so if I bring some in that is a bit wet, I still have enough dry stuff for the night and by the time I need the snow covered stuff, it's dry
Great tip!
Very good tips! If somebody could invent a "wood dryer", that would be most helpful. 😊 Thanks for sharing, Chad!
Thanks for watching! I actually thought about getting a more heavy duty version of a shoe rack (3-4 shelves high) and putting it in front of the wood stove in the basement. Then I could bring in wood and lay it on the layers of the rack and let the warm dry air surround each piece. That would dry it out quickly!
I have a family of 6 white tails that love my macintosh apples, sir oh, Maryland
They do love apples. We have a few old apple trees that were part of the homestead on this land before I built my house. Those trees still produce some apples and the deer are constantly under them.
I think it depends where you are at here we split and put on ground dries just fine mother nature rain no problem snow either sell hundreds of thousands of dollars in firewood every year so to each it's own I burn the fresh split stuff in the steam wood burner on top the fire in outside wood burner just fine I have people who take it just after it was split tell them said will burn no problem 9:50
*Im over in the Poconos Pa.
When splitting, never leave a piece larger in diameter than your fist, it'll season way way quicker. If you want "over nighters," drop some 6-8" trees or big limbs, and buck up the rounds, don't split em.
Bark on good dead wood helps it stay dry. Bark on dead dead wood keeps it wet. Never used a moisture meter, fan or dehumidifier for fiirewood in my life. Fed 6 houses firewood for 30+ years (40+cord a year) from harvest to burn. Frozen wood burns better than thawed wet wood. So, if you stack uncovered, always keep it outside til you burn it. If you cover it thoroughly, then bring it in to thaw before you burn it.
I've never been to the Poconos. Can you believe it? I've traveled all around our country and never been to that part of our own state. Thanks for watching and sharing your experience.
Good Day Sir, Outstanding Team work ( fan and Dehumidifier ) to remove the humidity 👌👍🧐 You video is very informative Sir 🧐🧐👍Nice Feeding Station For The Deer Cheers 🍻🍻
Thanks, Dave!
Yes, this is a known problem that has no solution in this way of partial drying. If there is a lot of firewood and you want to use it dry (15-20%), then you should think about something more powerful and efficient. For example, an air conditioner. It quickly and efficiently dries air, nuts or probably firewood. Yes, I collected 110-115 kg of walnuts in the garden and put them to dry in plastic boxes. Somewhere in 2 weeks, they lost about 10-15 kg in weight, when I decided to sell them. Firstly, it is too much for me, and secondly, there was a good price from those who buy nuts.
The same with firewood. If we use them to heat the house, then this is a lot of firewood and we should make a large, powerful and reliable dryer. So that well-dried firewood in the summer does not get wet again in the fall, as I did when it rained a lot. I think that it should be a container or a shed and there should be an air conditioner. Preferably connected from solar panels, but it still gives a good СOP of 4-5 in the summer, so it will also be quite effective from the network. Thus, we will get dry firewood very quickly and guaranteed in about a season, instead of 3 as usual. And no rain will spoil our efforts to split and dry firewood before the heating season.
Thanks for wathcing!
If it’s seasoned, it’s nothing, it just dries after a day or two in the sun.
Thanks for watching and leaving a comment. I've found the same thing (if we can manage to get a good sunny day or two in a row here in NW Pennsylvania.) :)
Dry by a hot fire. No problem.
Thanks for watching and leaving a comment!
Just put them in a open slat shed with overhang 😢
That would dry it out eventually. I mainly was talking about being able to burn the wood in a week or two.
The wood will dry off fast sitting inside
It did. It just won't stop raining around here. Where am I? This is not the northwest PA Januarys that I grew up in.
None of you folks must live in Western Washington State, where the official monopod is the Washington State Fighting Slug. If I were that careless around here,"Now What?" means that I balance on one foot, like a slug, and kick myself in the ass with the other foot for being too stupid or lazy to go and get a tarp before it started to rain - which can go on for weeks without let up long enough to even begin the drying out.
yea we got to dry that wood out we sure dont want to have to run to the woods and cut down some more live slow growing trees that are producing oxygen for the environment just so some one can have an ornamental fire in their fire place.
We don't cut down any live trees unless they're a danger to people or property. Any firewood we harvest is blowdowns or standing dead wood. Don't worry - we love our forest just as much as you do.
Not a big deal
Thanks for the comment. As long as you give the wood time to get that surface moisture off - it’s not a big deal. But if you were to burn it like that (surface wet) in a catalytic wood stove - you would create unnecessary creosote build up and risk of future chimney fire. Wood that used for heat in a stove like ours needs to not only be properly seasoned and dried internally- but also dried from any surface moisture.
@ yeah I’m sure surface moisture started a lot creosote fires. I’ve had catalytic stove’s my whole life. It’s not a big problem.