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Old 01-10-2006, 02:35 PM
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If you have the room I would "season" it myself. Cut it down to size, split it up and then stack it. We did this on my dads property up north (kalifornia). He had a few trees that fell a few years back. We just lined it up in a nice stacked row. Because of the local rains/misting snow he covered it and essentially left it for about 6 to 9 months. From what I was told it burned nicely.

Only down side is that it takes a season to season the wood and if you are hankering to use the wood sooon then you will have problems with moisture content and sap. Since it is oak I don't think there is as much sap (as with pine) but moisture can be a bad thhing when you are trying to get the most BTU's out of a fuel source, kinda like water in gasoline. I have been around some green fires where a log would "explode" due to the water/sap content. It makes a loud noise and sometimes topples the stack but generally does not have any destructive force behind it.

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