If we would get a bunch of nice sunny days it would be good but our weather this (non) summer has been 2 nice days - 3 days rain - one nice day - rain again----
So what if it rains on it?? Heck man, 95% of that rain water just runs off the ends and hits dirt. We had 4 straight days of rain last week, 6 hours after the sun came out I took wood from one of the stacks to build a fire in the fire pit... only the very top layer felt a little damp, but the second layer down was bone dry. When it's raining the air is basically at 100% (or more) relative humidity... the wood in your shed ain't drying when it's raining either. But when the sun comes out, wood stacked outside is gonna' dry a whole bunch faster than any stacked in a shed. That tiny amount of rainwater the top pieces soak in (What?? Maybe ¼ inch into the wood, at the absolute very most) will burn off in just a couple hours of sunshine.
I seriously do not understand this fear of letting rainwater fall on firewood stacks... it flat don't mean sour owl squat. "Wet" firewood ain't the same as "green" (or unseasoned) firewood; what you have now is unseasoned "green" firewood... heck, I'd take seasoned but rain-wet any day over unseasoned green firewood. Unseasoned green firewood is "wet" all the way through... seasoned but rain-wet firewood is still dry on the inside 95% of it. Stack that stuff outside... cover the top with old boards or tin in November to keep the snow off if'n ya' want.
I know I've said this before (many times)... but until I joined this board I'd never heard of putting "green" firewood under a cover or roof. If someone drove by and saw me doing that... well... they'd likely call the boys with straight-jackets to come get me and put me in the rubber room. And no, I ain't buyin' the "differences in climate" argument either; your climate may be "rainy" enough to justify putting
fully seasoned firewood under a roof or cover... but it's flat silly to do so with "green" firewood. When it's raining your firewood ain't seasoning, covered or not‼ And when it ain't raining, your firewood will season faster uncovered, even if it's been rained on‼
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