What tree species is this ?

[Gavlar]

If it's ash, you've hit the jackpot as far as burning it is concerned. It can be burned green without being seasoned. Split those rounds sooner rather than later, they will be more difficult to split once they're seasoned.

 

[not done it yet]

Seasoned? That is done to prepare timber for use in woodwork - so it does not warp or move while/after machining.

Burning logs simply need to be dried - water content simply reduces the amount of heat one can get from the timber. Water requires a lot of latent heat of evaporation, that simply disappears up the chimney - as well as preventing the wood from burning as well as it could.

 

[Mikey D]

@Gavlar why do you think ash can be burnt green ? I mean why ash and no other species ?? It will be for next winter this lot ,but will be split soon , and stacked under cover to .
@not done it yet I'm well aware firewood needs to be "dry" as you call it , or seasoned as I and most other people call it .
Paid over the odds for a builders bulk bag like £80 and the moisture /steam was coming out of it and very little heat . I e it was cut /processed in spring and sat in a bulk bag for a few months before being sold .

 

[123hotchef]

@Gavlar why do you think ash can be burnt green ? I mean why ash and no other species ?? It will be for next winter this lot ,but will be split soon , and stacked under cover to .
@not done it yet I'm well aware firewood needs to be "dry" as you call it , or seasoned as I and most other people call it .
Paid over the odds for a builders bulk bag like £80 and the moisture /steam was coming out of it and very little heat . I e it was cut /processed in spring and sat in a bulk bag for a few months before being sold .

ash can be burn right away GREEN) due to its low moisture content, it would burn better after a few months of seasoning though,

 

[8ob]

If it's Ash dieback will have killed it long before it hit the floor, that could be burned as is.

Bob

 

[Mikey D]

@8ob well it's been lying there on a shingle bank /island just downstream of a road bridge , washed downstream during the last lot of storms /floods ,8/12 months ago ? I'm not sure how ash die back affects the tree? But the whole tree inc stump was there...

 

[8ob]

@8ob well it's been lying there on a shingle bank /island just downstream of a road bridge , washed downstream during the last lot of storms /floods , I'm not sure how ash die back affects the tree? But the whole tree inc stump was there...

It may have met a different fate then Mikey, virtually all the Ash around here have succumbed to dieback, very little of it left in these parts. The stump should help ID the tree if its an Ash.

Bob

 

[Mikey D]

I'm getting the rest of it Tuesday , I'll get some pics of stump then

 

[Pete.]

Seasoned? That is done to prepare timber for use in woodwork - so it does not warp or move while/after machining.

Burning logs simply need to be dried - water content simply reduces the amount of heat one can get from the timber. Water requires a lot of latent heat of evaporation, that simply disappears up the chimney - as well as preventing the wood from burning as well as it could.

This video actually explains (at about 14 minutes) that Ash/Oak was traditionally felled in winter when it's water content is lowest and taken directly for working because once seasoned it was too tough to be worked by hand tools: