I cut a bunch of ash a few years back and stored it in a shed, and bringing it out now, a lot of it is full of small needle holes on the bark. On most of the stuff, the wood was solid, but I tossed a lot of it as I was concerned with putting it in the house for the winter. Same thing goes with a lot of the ash and some of the mulberry i've cut down this summer. Wood looks good on inside and out, but some of it has pin holes from the outside. I've been tossing out a lot of stuff that would burn real good, but am worried about storing it.
How picky are you guys when you select what firewood to cut and keep? Also do you burn outdoors (OWB) or burn indoors and keep wood indoors?
When i get done splitting a cord or so, i always end up with like 10 wheel barrows worth of bark, punky chunks, knots, sawdust, ants, grubs, etc etc etc.
i attack it with the scoop shovel and cram it so thick in the firbox i gotta Hercules the door to close.....
good enough to heat the hot water in the summer....i get about a week or so out of those 10 barrows.. It's nice actually, every cord i split, i end up with enough garbage to heat for a week, so i techincally don't burn any wood until the cold season, and i still end up with a clean yard...
note; i have dual forced draft, so, there's no such thing as too wet, too fine, or too thick...it WILL burn eventually.
home brew boiler. wood burns outside, wood stays outside.