With energy prices so high I'm expecting quite a few new wood burners this year

I have talked to several people who think and say "I will just burn some wood". I hope you know that wood needs to be seasoned and it can take quite a long time depending on environment and wood species. Some species 2 years or so to properly season. Remember 15% moisture is the goal but up to 20% or so will be OK. Its going to be a rough winter Anons, hope you are at least preparing.

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or you could just pay a chimney sweep to clean the creosote out of your chimney liner an extra time.

Its not just a dirty chimney. Green/wet wood produces a great deal less BTU. You will burn a shit ton of wood to not be warm.

the worst is yet to come
autumn energy prices will increase by 50% here

wood drys out as it gets hot my dude

I'm preparing by taking care of deez

So you follow battle beagle on twitter too, cool man

LOL. It sure does and by the time its dry you have burned half of your wood and half of your BTUs have gone up the chimney in steam.

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Only SA interior anons will survive.

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City twinks.. ngmi..

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Just cut some white ash mid winter, it's 20% when cut, stack it near the fire you're burning and it'll be down to 12% in no time.

Looks good. I really made this post because I just did some moisture checks on the stack I plan to burn this winter and It made me think. My oak came in at 16-18% should be around 15% by season.

Based and masonry stovepilled

Gonna burn pine, because I have a lot of it, don't want to cut my hardwoods and I don't have the means to haul wood anymore. Setting up an old woodstove with a completely separate chimney. Pine steams fast, then go up like a rocket. Unfortunately, its creosote has burned down a lot of fucking houses - hence the external chimney that I can get rid of later on. If I can even cut my oil bill by 25%, I'll call it a win, with such a halfassed setup.

For an outdoor cooking fire aka a braai, thats perfectly fine. Infact I'd shave some of that oak and make whiskey.
For indoors, in a closed firestove. sure if you have nothing else but its going to smoke and its going to burn with a lowish heat.
Personally for an indoor open fire, below 7%. anything else and you're going to start seeing problems more frequently, especially smoke inhalation when its real cold(for the oldies and kids).

just bought a house from an estate sale, old lady had maybe 3 cords of wood on the property from last year

I'm assuming it's enough for the wood stove, it looks like a lot of wood

Ash is great for that exact reason. Most people dont realize how long it takes to season wood. Around my area there is very little ash its almost all oak and hickory. I stack wood 3 years out to be ready.
Nothing wrong with pine at least it seasons fast.

Why would I waste my time with wood when I have inexpensive, abundant, clean burning natural gas piped directly into my home?

If you let your pine season for 2 years it is okay to burn inside. It's what they burn in Alaska, its throwing in green pine that will get you. Throw up a metalbestos chimney, pipe it a bit higher than usual, and you should be in pretty good shape.

Hard maple and tons of ash where I am, yellow birch and cherry. I can cut it down in winter, block it, season it over the summer and it's good to go for fall. I have full sun 15 hours a day in the summer where I dry my wood.

There is no way to get wood seasoned to 7% unless you live in the desert. 15-20% is what all wood burners recommend. Like I said there is no way to naturally dry firewood to 7% even kiln dried wood is 6-8% moisture.

I think the cost break down for pizza's is something like R60. which is prob fuck all in dollars.
Some of the best pizza I've ever had, at this point I've swallowed the canning prepper pill hard and made my own tomato base from tomato's grown and canned from the garden. Obviously not necessary but if you can do it, why not. Its a rare feeling to grow > can > cook over fire.
Hope many more anons here do the same. .

>wood needs to be seasoned
Are you another redditfaggot hipster who thinks the world needs to buy overweight cooking pans that also need to be (((seasoned)))?

+ they are going to ban dry wood (they already banned wet wood)
and probably ban charcoal as well
and also they want to ban the wood burners themselves
all under the guise of 'health' or course

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Ahh...thanks, I didn't know that.

All good wood user. I stack mine in full sun and full wind too. I also criscross the wood on pallets. Fits less wood but leaves a real nice air gap.

Depends on the wood. Hedge (Osage Orange) and locust burn well green. You get more heat if it's dry, of course.

Generally the people who actually have trees available to turn into firewood know what they're doing. Don't have to worry about the rest.

I grow lots of tomatoes. Just got done canning tomato soup, salsa, and pasta/pizza sauce for the year. Next month starts peaches and pears, then in October it’s apples.

On my life, when I recently tested 2 year seasoned black wattle it was 3% on the inside.
Bone dry and you could say the conditions are desert, alot of SA is shrub land and conditions outside are harsh in all seasons. In the interior anyway.

My house has a huge furnace in the basement(probably big enough to stuff a body in lol), with metal ducts running through the house. can burn fresh or dry wood, fresh is a lot harder to get burning good though, always keeps atleast a years worth of wood stored and cuts more during the warm months. always got dry wood to burn

I've got some I could take a picture later today. Two year old seasoned hard hack.

HAHA. Yes I season my cast iron pans with lard. Good luck burning green wood. Wew lad the more society deteriorates the more we are going to see some exciting stuff. Some guy for Illinois stopped at my house last winter because he saw my wood stack. He wanted to buy some. Told me a guy sold him wood but it was to green to burn. Told him to fuck off and get off my land.

The virgin wood seasoner fears the chad burnmaxxer

pic rel, this furnace was found on a dump over 30 years ago and it's worked since with regular maintenance

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Feel the same, some of the shit I hear or have to interact vexes me. People who have fuck all and still cant put two stick together to make a fire(sometimes literally). Saw a grown white man, on his ass and unable to make a successful fire on the ground to cook off of the other day. Homeless as a white man in this country, your dead in a few months. Weeks if you behave like this city wanker I'm talking about.
Anyway, ye I have noticed an uptick in skill-less men encroaching into the deep interior. def ngmi.