mass_burner
Minister of Fire
As long as you don't live in the tropics, the time the wood is wet from rain is neglible in the seasoning cycle.
Do you cover your wood if not going to use it this year?
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We need to run a test to settle this once and for all.
I'll keep an open mind.Who wants to sacrifice their wood to prove mass_burner wrong?
I ran that test too may times. And have had too many forum members come back a year or two later and say they wished to hell they had top covered their stacks that year.
The message I think mass_burner is trying to get across is the wood will reach the same seasoned state whether it was covered for three full years or left uncovered for the first two and then covered for the third.
KindredSpiritzz
Minister of Fire
I have stumps i leave out year round to split wood on, every few years i have to replace them because they go punky. I have splits in various places holding down tarps and such, after a few years they rot and fall apart. Anything left to the weather is going to decay over time.
mass_burner
Minister of Fire
mass_burner
Minister of Fire
Splitting stumps are left on the ground with no end air flow and they're rounds.
Splits on top of a tarp, again poor airflow.
mass_burner
Minister of Fire
Neither do mine, it's in essence what I'm saying, not the specific numbers.
I know that it can work uncovered and in some areas it works very well but there really is no down side to top covering while in many areas there are several down sides to not covering
KindredSpiritzz
Minister of Fire
i think we need some university or government institution to spend millions of dollars on a study to get to the bottom of this age old question once and for all. We need definitive scientific proof 
covered or uncovered is a time tested topic. Some wood does seem to rot faster then others. If its on the ground even faster.
we had an extremely wet first part of the summer but it seemed to dry out a bit.
I think I might top cover what is left standing in the field this year.
we had an extremely wet first part of the summer but it seemed to dry out a bit.
I think I might top cover what is left standing in the field this year.
Penn states agricultural extension recommends top covering in pa at least
Berner
Feeling the Heat
YES!
If you are only one year good. I have this years wood covered in a shed and next years in a shed as well. Ide rather stack it in my spare room vs stacking it out in the open. 90% of my stock is dry off the saw so no seasoning required.
If on the other hand, you are obsessed and have enough CSS'ed to sink the Titanic. Ide be yawning at the prospect of covering all that.
If you are only one year good. I have this years wood covered in a shed and next years in a shed as well. Ide rather stack it in my spare room vs stacking it out in the open. 90% of my stock is dry off the saw so no seasoning required.
If on the other hand, you are obsessed and have enough CSS'ed to sink the Titanic. Ide be yawning at the prospect of covering all that.
mass_burner
Minister of Fire
Each site is going to give different results, bottom line, period. North American has 8 different climate types, deciduous forest, coniferous forest, Mediterranean, grassland, tundra, alpine/mountain, desert and rainforest - now add 1,000s of different areas and different conditions you can stack wood in each one of those climates.....too many variables for a definitive YES / NO, "my way is right your way is wrong", the "Government said this" answer
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