Drying firewood

[Yorky1]

Got a load of hardwood delivered today but it's very wet and heavy. It had been lying in field before being cut to lenth and split recently.

It will be stacked in a covered and ventilated wood shed and won't be used for possibly nine months - will it have dried out by then? The supplier reckons so as hardwood doesn't absorb as much water as softwood.

It is very wet and heavy though.

 

[Burnerman]

Don't stack the logs tightly, and allow loads of air to get round them and I reckon they'll be ready. You can only try and see!
John

 

[big-all]

do not stack soaked in a shed you will rot the floor
just stack outside with the top covered and make shure theres room all round for the air to circulate then after a month or so you can start transfering inside layer by layer as they dry

 

[Thermo]

we store the logs we sell in a stable and outside undercover in the wetter months in winter. In the spring and summer they all come outside to be stored on pallets with a tarp over them. On a dry day the tarp comes off to allow them to dry as much as possible. Should be easily dry by the winter for burning if not a lot sooner. We take freshly cut cordwood and split it while wet and it dries out very fast, no matter what spiecies

 

[Yorky1]

Below are links to photos of one of the logs:

http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff250/Kilnadrain/P1070367.jpg
http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff250/Kilnadrain/P1070366.jpg
http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff250/Kilnadrain/P1070365.jpg


Is this hardwood or softwood? What type of timber is it?

Thanks in advance.

 

[ladylola]

Looking at your photos , it doesn't look like a hardwood it looks more like redwood or a pitch pine. Both burn ok though.

 

[Stivino]

Looks like Larch to me. Would like to see a picture of the bark or a branch.