Seasoning Firewood

[SwampDonkey]

I've always stored near to my heat appliance. The wood continuously dries so much that the pieces bust apart from checking. As long as I have a real dry cord to start the rest is even drier when used.

[doctorb]

I store mine as close to the sun as I can get it.   

[accidental forester]

We've used this system for the last 3 years. Our primary wood is sitka spruce from a nearby, semimature plantation. Once split, it will season in these crates in less than six months over the summer. Nine or more months if over the winter. Winters here are quite wet but also very windy. The drying shed is SE facing so gets a fair amount of air without stormy (wet) southwesterlies.
The crates are from the local garden centre, potted trees come in them from the nurseries and are not cost effective for them to return so they sell them off. I have a pallet truck to shunt the crates around. We bring the timber in in 4 foot lengths from the plantation in a Hilux pickup. One truckload fills about a crate and half.
When required, I hoist a crate into the pickup for delivery to the house (unfortunately we're spread over three locations; plantation, out-farm, home place)
We go through about 15 to 18 crates in a year. 95% of our home heating is from this wood burned in a Irish made Boru boiler stove. I try to have about 20+ crates ready by late summer so we have some spare to share.
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