15/01/2025
What makes a seasoned log seasoned?
The bark around a tree is like its skin and holds moisture in the grain of the wood. If you split open a log, and coincidentally the bark, you allow moisture to slowly evaporate from the split surface. From an open surface the wood seasons to a depth of approximately one inch per year. This is accelerated if you keep the rain off it and leave it in a breeze.
Doing it artificially by kiln drying, uses expensive fossil fuels and is a waste of time, as afterwards the log can absorb water through the split surfaces. In other words, for kiln dried logs to stay as good as barn dried logs, they too must be kept out of the rain and in a breeze.
A log that hasn't been split (and therefore unseasoned) won't burn in the same way. In order to burn properly, the % moisture content needs to be 15-20% and the burning needs to be hot enough to minimise the condensation in the flue/chimney commonly known as creosote.
To order your next delivery of well seasoned hardwood logs, call Dave on 07973 117997.
