Not every wood burner has that perfect spot on their property for stacking the firewood they prepared – maybe it gets just too little sunshine, perhaps the wind doesn’t blow as well there. In other cases, the place itself might not be too level, or even worse, be a straight up hill.
Picture this – you’ve been slacking on your firewood prep this season, and it turns out that the fall has come. You figure out that it could be possible to down some dead trees and start burning them right away. If a tree is standing dead, it should be good to burn, right?
Your perfectly seasoned wood stack recently got rained on – what now?
Being as consistent as possible with the length of firewood you cut comes with many benefits. Problem is, doing so by “eyeballin’” only works so much. That’s why you have to apply some technique to the whole deal to make it work all the time…
As if all that cutting, bucking and splitting wasn’t time consuming enough, now you also have to stack all that wood. For those who time is more important (or they are just tired of doing so), the thought of not stacking the pieces at all comes to mind often, and why not? We all have…
Wood burning stoves are extremely versatile – you can use them pretty much everywhere: the house, the cabin, the barn, the what you want.
It makes a ton of sense to think that the wood which is left cut up for as long as possible will get more dry. But with that in mind, can you over do it? And if so, is there any bad to that?
If you are a serious firewood enthusiast, you know how important is chainsaw safety. One of the most important parts of the whole deal is undoubtedly the chaps. Considering it is such a crucial piece of protection, they can’t last forever, right?
I think every wood burner would agree with me on this – firewood is most often split into desirable pieces on a solid block made out of wood, i.e., a round. With that being said, this doesn’t have to be the case. There are two methods which don’t require any form of support under; i’m…