The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Smallholding => Renewables => Topic started by: verdifish on March 22, 2013, 09:28:04 pm
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Doe's any of you kind souls know how long beech should be seasoned before being burnt?
I dropped a v large beech a few weeks ago and its now all happily split into 30cm lenghts under cover in a windy area with lots of circulation.How soon could it under these circumstanes be burnt....?Cheers Verdi
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Best leave it until next winter
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beech burns green, but you need a hot fire to burn it. if you need it now, i would stack loads round the fire, then burn something else for a while to drive the worst of the wet out. i survived that cold winter a few years back because i felled a 3ft diameter beech tree and burnt it straight away.
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It's best to season for a year, but as DITW says if you can burn other stuff along with it, it'll be okay.
We find old pallets are lovely and dry and really help get it going ;) or some coal just to keep the temperature up.
HTH
Karen
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If you burn it too early all the energy will be used to evaporate the water and they'll give out very little heat. Stack some close to the fire/stove to force dry them - they'll burn much hotter then, otherwise it's a waste of potentially fantastic firewood