green wood question

[blkcloud]

If I put a stick of green wood in a 600 degree oven for 6 hours.. would it be a stick of dried wood when I took it out? or would it still have plenty of moisture in it? when I say a stick.. i'm saying a 18 inches long and 6 inches in dia. I know at some point it wold probably catch on fire if left long enough.. unless it was a sealed oven with no oxygen in it..thanks!

 

[toddol1971]

I'm thinking your wife better not read this

 

[chucker]

! try it and let us all know what you found out?
the only way to know something is to do it !! lol

 

[toddol1971]

Open the windows first, send the kids to the baby sitters, and, well this one depends on how you feel. lock the wife in the closet Or if your anthony hopkins

 

[hupte]

you'll likely fill the house with smoke. I think kilns dry wood with air temps under 200* just a guess. but even if it works great you'll end up with at least a few flakes of bark dropping in the oven and likely smoking up the house again the next time someone uses it. please keep in mind I'm just guessing, Idk what would really happen. I haven't tried it. thats my story and I'm sticking to it.

 

[Oldman47]

If you do that with no oxygen present you will have some nice charcoal with the moisture and most of the volatiles driven off.

 

[blkcloud]

the reason I ask... I put a stick of green wood in my owb the other day...I already had a bunch of wood in it when I put it in there.. I figured it took about 6 hours for it to get down to the coals and start to burn.. looks to me like all of the moisture would have boiled out of it by them time it gets ready to burn..hence i would be burning dried wood not green wood,,??

 

[Franny K]

A lot of water has to come off and go somewhere. I have experimented with split pieces of oak say 1 1/2 inch square by 6 inches long spaced an inch and a half above a wood stove with surface temperature averaging say 500 degrees F and it takes a few days to get down to close to half the weight. Oak seasons slower than maple, hemlock seems significantly slower than pine on the evergreen around here.

Putting green wood in those outdoor boilers has a lot to do with towns around here putting zoning rules in place pertaining to them. You loose the energy from burning wood to raise the temperature of the water you are "drying off" and the energy of the phase change from liquid to steam or vapor. I do think some of the volatiles have energy potential so totally dry wood seems to need more of it.

Splitting, cutting into cubes or close to cubes, and stacking close to the heat (probably not possible with an outdoor boiler) for a day or so is the best way to burn green. Green may be a bit vague term.

 

[Joesell]

My first year with an owb I had one choice. It was green or expensive. I picked green. What I did was keep my fire close to the back, and stand 8-10 pieces up near the door, but off to the sides. The next time I'd fill, I'd push the "dry" wood back and repeat.

I'm not saying it was perfect, but it seemed to work better and smoke less.

 

[olyman]

My first year with an owb I had one choice. It was green or expensive. I picked green. What I did was keep my fire close to the back, and stand 8-10 pieces up near the door, but off to the sides. The next time I'd fill, I'd push the "dry" wood back and repeat.

I'm not saying it was perfect, but it seemed to work better and smoke less.

yankee ingenuity....course the hacks of this forum will be along to complain

 

[svk]

My first year with an owb I had one choice. It was green or expensive. I picked green. What I did was keep my fire close to the back, and stand 8-10 pieces up near the door, but off to the sides. The next time I'd fill, I'd push the "dry" wood back and repeat.

I'm not saying it was perfect, but it seemed to work better and smoke less.

I know a guy that has a brick pizza oven. He leaves wood in front overnight and it basically dries it completely. He pushes it to the back the next morning and it coals almost immediately.

 

[Woody912]

If I put a stick of green wood in a 600 degree oven for 6 hours.. would it be a stick of dried wood when I took it out? or would it still have plenty of moisture in it? when I say a stick.. i'm saying a 18 inches long and 6 inches in dia. I know at some point it wold probably catch on fire if left long enough.. unless it was a sealed oven with no oxygen in it..thanks!

I set a green pc of hickory next to my wood stove last yr and weighed it daily, it was still losing weight after a week although the rate of change had slowed drastically. Some drying is better than no drying