Silly Question.....Spitting Firewood

[letmetalktomark]

Evening All,

I recently bought some seasoned firewood from County Wide stores.

After working my way through several pieces (I mainly burn coal) I've noticed that the wood does spit a fair bit....

Does this mean that the wood is infact not seasoned or is it not seasoned enough or do I just have a bunch of naturally spitting wood?

As usual all advice\responses welcomed!

Cheers,

Mark

 

[mikee]

pine usually spits due to the high resin content
dont know seasoning affects this ,but i know a mate of mine lets his
cut wood ,as opposed to old pallets & stuff,sit for a year before burning it

 

[al]

I'd spit at you if you chucked me on your fire.

It's when it starts putting the V's up and mooning you, you need to worry!!

yeah! I was gonna say that too Mikee.

 

[barry2017]

Properly seasoned firewood tends to look a bit more dried out than freshly cut wood. There's little splits in it, sometimes.

Don't buy your wood from a shop! Find a local woodyard and you'll get it for a fraction of the price.

 

[fingers]

Doesnt it spit more when its fresh? Dry burns better, no?

Make sure you have a fireguard as the spits can spit bits, as it were...

 

[dyna-ti]

Yeah resin and knots

wot he said

 

[suburbanreuben]

Ever heard it said that timber ain't even godd for firewood? You've got it!
You don't want to be burning pine except for kindling. Stick to Oak (slow burn), Ash or Birch (qick burn). It doesn't need to be seasoned, but will fizz a bit if very wet. Avoid chestnut at all costs. That is highly likely to explode (not just spit)!! :shock:

 

[Gadro]

Oak is the stuff, felled a diseased one in my back garden 2 years ago and I've still got a couple of tons of it. Cut it into smaller pieces for storing and it still took over a year to dry out properly. Large cracks develop on it and a maul and a bomb is all you need to get some nice sized timber. Burns real slow and gives out lots of heat.

Timberyards will often have loads of Oak 'offcuts' costing about £60 a ton bag plus a bit more for delivery. Will probably cost more for 'townies'

 

[dyna-ti]

I'd also agree with the above.the guy that owns the workshop i work in uses almost exclusively oak,all his offcuts go into his aga
I also use some of the bigger offcuts [from 3" planks]when i go camping,it does last longer by far