How To Tell If Firewood Is Rotten
- #one
I take no real firewood feel still and so bear with me here! On i side of my belongings a agglomeration of trees were felled around 1 1/2 years agone, and some large logs left around. The wood is oak. Since I have to get rid of these for some afforestment anyway, I've been cut it up. At present some of it is obviously rotten and junk, while other stuff looks similar it might be ok. How would I tell? Is a pocket-size ring on the exterior of the log a good indicator of rot? And if so how much is acceptable for burning, if any? If information technology's no good I'll merely chop it upwardly enough to get rid of and not carp with it. If some of it is good I'd similar to split and pile information technology. I'll exist installing a woods stove between at present and this fall.
I know this isn't a great pic but that'due south some of the bigger stuff, that pile looked decent to me. I tin go better pictures of class. This wood has of course been on the ground for a while, but some was suspended up due to terrain etc.
- #2
I have to expect at it to tell. If the sap wood around the outside is rotten, but the hart wood is good, I stack it in the shed.
- #3
Outer rot doesn't plow me off every bit much as inner rot.
Whatever yous accept for solid wood, is what volition be "prime number".
Were it me, I wouldn't waste anything unless it is all punky (spongey). 
- #4
That wood looks fine, I am cut oak that's been blowed over more than two years at present. Information technology takes a long time for a body to rot. If you tin push button the centre of the log in with your finger, It is rotten. Now the exterior still may exist good. If it'due south still hard information technology'southward ok.
- #5
test it with a irksome chain... hit it with the dull chain on your saw and if it cuts like butter its rotten...
if you go to choice information technology up past paw and it falls apart in your paw its rotten..
if you kick it and it d-centigrades on affect..its rotten..
:hmm3grin2orange::hmm3grin2orange::hmm3grin2orange::hmm3grin2orange:
- #6
LOL, If it'due south not you have a cleaved toe.
- #7
i figured they would get the picture... opcorn:
- #eight
Haha! Well I know that if it blows apart it'due south obviously rotten. Everything I have is solid, but the exterior a bit softer on much of it. The bawl comes off easy on some of it and some white worms autumn out from just nether. Simply it'southward withal hard, no holes etc. It'south been sitting in grass/dirty for that entire time.
- #9
i figured they would go the moving-picture show...
Yup.
- #10
if you striking information technology with the saw and sparks and teeth fly, it might be petrified. just a hint....
- #12
i look at it this way.. if it is a little rotten, it splits easier.
but if you drop it on the tail gate and it splits itself it might be a little also old...:hmm3grin2orange:
- #13
If you can paring information technology with you lot hand or foot it is rotten. But if simply the outside inch or so is rotten then divide it and stack information technology. Bawl falling off doesn't mean anything. Even some rot is ok equally information technology will burn only not requite of the estrus or long burn times equally a solid piece.
I am cutting upward tops that accept been downward for 3 years with very footling rot. What part of the wood was in straight contact with the ground is spongy, but the limbs that are off the basis are good wood and the trunks are solid because the limbs on the underside go along it off the basis.
- #14
Thanks for the advice guys. It sounds like most of this wood volition be useful. Biggest issue is clay stuck to the bottom sides. I've been brushing like crazy!
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- #15
yup, my wife hates dingy wood as well....
- #16
I take been cleaning upwardly some copse that have been down a while and if it is however hard on the outside, then I will cut it up for firewood.
Even though some of it may be rotten in the center, the way I see it is it is going to be burned eventually anyways, whether piled up or in a stove. Might as well become some utilise out of information technology.
Now if information technology is completely rotten where it falls to pieces, and then I don't affect it. But every bit long as at that place is some hard wood left in it, I will cutting it up for firewood.
That's me" If your going to heat with forest you volition need all you lot can go. It may await like allot when its laying on the ground simply when it is split up it but don't add upwardly"
- #17
I've taken oak trunks that take been sitting on the ground for 2 and 3 years. The outer portion of sapwood may be a punky, only the residual is simply fine if y'all split it and let it dry.
- #18
Agreed...I'll sticka saw in most and old log just to come across what it's like on the inside. You lot would be surprised. Every bit log as it is non like a sponge, information technology'south good, and some may have a hard heart or outer and dry rot. Well that dry rot falls away as before long as it hit the splitter. Non ever worth messing with, but I try to get the most out of the land I take available to work off of.
- #19
Treepointer is on the money there.
A lot of stove owners over here take a problem with firewood showing whatever signs of rot & are simply being generally over fussy.
It's their loss.
Oak heartwood is superb, who cares if you tin can pull the rotten sapwood off in handfuls.
The stop result is good firewood.
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