As others have mentioned it will burn... sort of. Burning green wood has no advantages and several disadvantages:
1. Your hard work in cutting, splitting and stacking is wasted since you are getting less heat per volume of wood. This in turn results in faster wood use for less heat further limiting your ability to use something other than green wood since you are always behind.
2. The amount of heat from the fire is significantly less if the wood is green so you will struggle to adjust the stove to get a meaningful amount of heat.
3. The chimney will clog up much sooner with creosote further reducing your ability to get much heat from the wood.
4. The clogged up chimney then presents its own safety issues.
5. The fire will be a hassle to start and you will spend a lot more time trying to get it going each time it goes out.
6. Its extremely frustrating when you are trying to warm up a cold house and even though the fire is "roaring" the stovetop is barely at 300F (energy being wasted to dry the wood while it burns). With dry would it would be at 600F and the secondaries would be at full throttle.
I'm a first year wood stove user and learned the hard way right out of the gate how lame it was to try using green wood. Now when I grab a piece from the pile and it feels heavy for its size I throw it into the reject pile (next season) instead of the stove.
1. Your hard work in cutting, splitting and stacking is wasted since you are getting less heat per volume of wood. This in turn results in faster wood use for less heat further limiting your ability to use something other than green wood since you are always behind.
2. The amount of heat from the fire is significantly less if the wood is green so you will struggle to adjust the stove to get a meaningful amount of heat.
3. The chimney will clog up much sooner with creosote further reducing your ability to get much heat from the wood.
4. The clogged up chimney then presents its own safety issues.
5. The fire will be a hassle to start and you will spend a lot more time trying to get it going each time it goes out.
6. Its extremely frustrating when you are trying to warm up a cold house and even though the fire is "roaring" the stovetop is barely at 300F (energy being wasted to dry the wood while it burns). With dry would it would be at 600F and the secondaries would be at full throttle.
I'm a first year wood stove user and learned the hard way right out of the gate how lame it was to try using green wood. Now when I grab a piece from the pile and it feels heavy for its size I throw it into the reject pile (next season) instead of the stove.
