Firewood

[DickR]

Originally Posted by wifi

I order off the stump wood middle of the summer, let it sit in the sun in my yard during the summer, then am stacking it presently in the basement. We use a salamander for the final dry during the late fall, pre-heating season.

Do I understand you to mean that you use a kerosene-fired heater inside the house to heat the wood in the hopes of drying it, sort of "kiln drying?" That's inviting a pile of CO into the house, not to mention the introduction of all that water vapor from combustion within the house. Also, the drying of wood is a very slow, diffusion-based process that doesn't seem to be hastened effectively by some external heat. Please tell us I misundertand.