Aging time for Ash

[USMC615]

The natives are sure to get restless now Alan93, lol...re-read the consensus of what was posted...and don't wear your welcome out trying folks patience. Just sayin. Might wanna work on word choice just a little. Some knowledgeable guys and good advice, site-wide here. Anyone wanna wager what route Alan chooses...??...I'm all in on the bet.

 

[stihly dan]

Better not be lumping me in with this statement! Great guys and great advice, site-wide here[/QUOTE]
I'm a Biotch with bad advice. Wanna go usmc615? putem up, putem up.

 

[USMC615]

Better not be lumping me in with this statement! Great guys and great advice, site-wide here

I'm a Biotch with bad advice. Wanna go usmc615? putem up, putem up.[/QUOTE]

...LMAO.

 

[alan93]

You asked for advice, you got it....take it or leave it, your choice[emoji4]

Got it, no disputing information provided or discussion to the contrary allowed.

 

[TimberWolf530]

Got it, no disputing information provided or discussion to the contrary allowed.

I think a more accurate statement would be: No acting like a d-bag and pretty much calling someone stupid that's trying to help you. If you disagree with someone, state in a respectful way, and no problem.

BTW, if you pile wood next to your stove, the radiant heat from the stove will dry that wood out over time. Since you are the only person around who's ever seen a "wood roach", I don't think his suggestion to store wood next to the stove is unreasonable. I do it all winter long, and never get bugs in my house. Ease up on the mad fingers, and you'll get along fine here. Act like a jerk, and people will be a jerk back at you.

 

[sb47]

Thanks great advice from all.
As for roaches in firewood. I cut dead Ashes whose initial occupiers were Ash borers. After they move out. The wood roaches move in. Maybe wood roaches like Ash more than other species as well, not sure.

I find them in most all types of firewood.
A few years ago my stacks were full of stink bugs.
The beg red wasp also like to make the piles there home.
The geckos are after the roaches.
Not to many snakes around here anymore.
The fire ants have gotten most anything that nest on the ground.
And of course the fire ants will move in, in the summer when it's wet.

 

[Marshy]

Its pretty straight forward, creosote comes from the condensable gasses cooling off and condensing on the internals of the flue/chimney. The more moisture your wood has when burnt the more volume of condensables going up the chimney there are. If you cannot maintain a high enough temperature in the flue for the entire length of the chimney then they condense and form creosote. Not having the stove hooked to the flue properly is contributing to your creosote problem. The flue gases are mixing with room air being drawn into the flue and this reduces the temperature. Only you can be the judge on your firewood but if you were maintaining a high enough flue temperature you could theoretically burn fresh cut green wood without any creosote issues. However, it is highly unlikely one could maintain such conditions because the adding fuel take a lot of heat from the flue to catch the new wood. I would say if you cut split and stacked ash for 6 months minimum you would probably be ok but I would aim for 10 months. The difference in 4 months is noticeable.

 

[Whitespider]

Hmmmm?? Wood roaches?? Home destroying pests?? Escaping from the wood??
I put my entire winter supply of firewood in the basement not far from the firebox door every fall. Guessin' there's something between 5 and 6 cord down there right now, mostly oak and elm, and I started puttin' it down there over a month ago. Some of it was cut late last winter, some of it split 'n' stacked over 3 years. I find an occasional spider in the basement firewood supply, but there's spiders in basements where I live... I've never once had bugs in the house from the firewood.

With that said... I stack my firewood in single rows, in full sun and wind, uncovered... why would any bug wanna' move into such an environment??
Heck, even the ants vacate the stacks as the moisture is reduced...

We have wood roaches here (Pennsylvania wood cockroach)... they feed on decaying plant material and live in damp, rotting hollow logs and such, mostly oak and elm.
But bugs need moisture to survive... meaning wet wood... a dry stack of firewood won't attract bugs... bugs won't make their home in a stack of split firewood standing in the sun.
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[haveawoody]

Whitespider,

You got it buddy single rows are the way to go.
I get the occasional bugs but generally not from wood piles but from from casino night.
What happens in the forest stays in the forest

 

[CaseyForrest]

I just removed about a facecord of wood from my inlaws garage that has been there for at least 4 years. Ample evidence that there are wood loving bugs living in the wood.