Norway Maple Firewood - Moisture Level After
I might have jumped the gun. With what, you ask? The moisture reading on the recently split Norway Maple firewood. As a reminder, we had a very large Norway Maple (that was in a bad state of decline) removed from our front yard this Fall . I had the wood processed into rounds and brought to the back of our property to begin to dry out. By the end of October, I started to split the rounds . And they were HEAVY and wet. (or....as they say in the firewood business: 'green'). I wanted to track how fast this Norway Maple firewood would dry out and become 'seasoned' enough to be able to burn. The pros say that you need to get the moisture level down below 20% to be dry-enough to burn properly. F rom the time that I began to split the wood to 18 days later (2.5 weeks), I was reading the moisture level to be 50% . Now...if you read any of the firewood online forums, you'll see that A LOT of people claim that Norway Ma...