Firewood Drying Tips

[js4fn]

Very interesting! We had to saw it down branch by branch cause my uncles house was right there hahaha. Everytime a branch snapped from the main and hit the floor it was like glass shattering hahaha twings and rotted tree everywhere, took up longer to clean up than it did to cut it down hahaha

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Yup top branches break up as if there icicles

Don’t recommend hanging a tree stand on them

[js4fn]

Serious be careful of ash trees roots systems are gone

Couple I’ve easly pushed over

[Bowjob]

Serious be careful of ash trees roots systems are gone

Couple I’ve easly pushed over

holy crap thats actually nuts roots are so rotted it looks like they got burned LOL

[greatwhite]

I let wood dry naturally outside for a year or 2 then it goes in the bar. I don't bother covering it and I have it sitting on pallets and have never really had any go rotten. I have 15 face sitting outside right now about 10 needs to be split and another 15 in the barn. I probably won't bother to split it this year as I like to have at least 20 before I bother.

[73hunter]

Nice video. I noticed that you did not address covering the wood to prevent rain /snow load sitting on it and extending the drying time.?
Can you comment?

Yeah.....cover to keep the rain & snow off and leave the sides open to the wind, seems to work best

[FirewodGuy]

Thank you. Personally, I view covering wood (on top only) as optional. I would like to cover every aspect, but I admit I don't do the most prep work for videos. Trying to get better but I just started this process two months ago, not really my thing to make videos, but I'm working on covering all that I can

[FirewodGuy]

Thanks, it is a task keeping up on supply. I would like to fill 100 crates (30) bush cords) every year, but it doesn't always go like that for me either

[FirewodGuy]

I hear you, higher latitude and altitude mean less or no hardwoods.

[JoePa]

One other thing about cutting down dead ash trees - those upper branches are usually pretty rotten and can come down from the vibration of the chain saw or any movement against another tree - when I cut a tree like that I cut while looking up to see if any branch starts falling - then when I see the opening where I am cutting starting to widen I take off as fast as possible - cutting down trees can be dangerous if you don't now what you doing -

[js4fn]

Back when


I could use one or two of those guys

Better bump up that liability insurance