Seasoned....is there too much?

[CRThomas]

When I delivered bulk wood 90% was stacked out side customer said that as long as they keep the bark up on top row it stayed at what delivered it. If it rained on the fresh wood they would have to put it my numbers are from 40 plus year fooling with I have run more test than most people have split wood

 

[haveawoody]

CTYank,

Just natural decline of anything put outdoors.
Mites, lice and a host of other things are slowly doing business even on dry wood.
Even without them doing much to the wood eventually dry rot sets in on any wood.
It's a slow process to degrade hardwood though like hickory at 29 mbtu for the first 10 years, then a loss of 5% of 29 mbtu on year 11 to 27.5 , then 5% of that 27.5 on year 12 to 26mbtu.
Numbers came from Canadian study of firewood degradation over time.

I figured the same with wood never being to dry but that summer got things close.
Was like burning kiln dried wood for the first month, soon settled back to normal though.