tractchores
Veteran Member
If you get it off the ground it will last a lot longer. I normally cut things to 4' or 8' lengths and stack them and then burn them a couple years later, or if they get in danger of actually rotting sell them.
Red Oak, 3 years if left down in the woods. 5 plus if stacked and cut. (In south GA.)hello all, after sandy i have a lot of down trees in my woods most red oaks,ive cutup about 10 cords already for fire wood for 2014 and 2015. my question is how long will down trees last before they rot and cant burn them? tu
Dry wood has better BTUs because you are no longer wasting heat to burn off moisture in the wood. How would old wood lose BTUs? Might burn faster, but not less efficiently.
i had access to a bunch of maple logs that were cut in feb 2012. a few weeks after the trees were cut
i brought a bunch of the trunk logs home and soon after cut them into rounds. i stacked them against
my pole barn, on the south side, and they sat there till this year when i started splitting them, and i noticed
that much of it has black streaks in the wood, and some started getting punky. i only use it for campwood
but hate the thought that it started deteriorating so quickly. i would have thought it would have been
good in rounds for a while.