I have a fireplace insert. When I get firewood that isn't quite seasoned I sit it upright in front of the fireplace, about a foot away from the glass. It dries out in a matter of hours. Helps with staging wood before it goes in the fire.

If I have to burn higher moisture content wood or even green, I’ve found the key is to split much smaller than you normally would. Keep a coal bed going and feed the burner more frequently. Your method works too, so to each their own! Good idea for sharing this video for someone with little to no wood supply.

Thanks Jay. That was a big drop in moisture with the green wood. As you know, I had a delivery of green logs at my place last week and I plan to use some of it later in the heating season. Now, I know how to get some of that moisture out. Thanks again for the tips and I will surely be doing this.

Lol I have never though about drying my gloves on that front lip like that. Knowing my luck they would end up in the boiler. I am fortunate enough to have wood cut up for at least a year ahead now so I only burn green wood now out of convenience. I tend to burn some of the pine limbs right up so I don't have to handle them again. If I do I usually just make sure I have a really good coal bed or fill it up a little with dry wood on the bottom. When I did and if I have to burn green wood I would tend to spit it up smaller to help it out a little. It is one of the reasons I don't like to burn much of it. Not only is it less efficient because it is green it takes longer to process and load it.

I noticed American chestnut on that list. I’ve never found one yet in the wild. Upstate NY.

Thankyou

can you fill up the outdoor boiler with wood and than fill it up with antrack coal chunks

Jay you have invented the “Kiln Boiler”

can i do same in wood stove

I bet a dollar you'd of gotten a lower reading if you let the wood cool off because that meter was picking up the wet from the steam. You can also put a couple green sticks on top the burning pile and should be fine by the time it starts to burn and not affect coal bed.

I grew up in an area with lots of lumber mills. This is just like kiln drying lumber, really.

Doesn’t this mean you’re at wood supply negative ? Or just put 10 x green wood ?

Put some ass behind that axe , lol

definitely can't burn it in our wood stove.

How can anything have more than 100% moisture content.

Green/wet/large wood will burn at a slower rate. Just use it to moderate and lower the output temp of the furnace. Or offset the green/wet/large wood by also using smaller/dryer wood. Where’s the rocket science on this? Wood “A” burns slower, has less heat. Wood “B” burns faster, has more heat. Adjust accordingly to what you have on hand.

That ain't green, it doesn't have leaves on it lol. I throw in about 40% wet stuff when I can,on top. After a couple heat cycles it's dried out in my opinion