Moisture captured in the wood expands and pops causing sparks to fly which may create a fire hazard beyond the hearth.
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If you try to burn wood that was cut down that year, there will be some left over water in the wood that will make it harder to burn. So, the wood is seasoned, by being stored for a few years before being burned, to let the wood dry out.
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It can warp or split. Before the wood is placed in the process the necessary actions to be followed to obtain the good results. Wood shrinkage does not make much problem but the proper wood buring is to be done when the wood are place in the house. The woodworking business ideas make it better and gives more ideas about the seasoning of the wood.
Creosote will form in your chimney from the moisture given off by the unseasoned wood. Evetually a chimney fire WILL result. If you are using one of those outdoor wood furnaces that are well away from the house, go for it. If you are using a wood stove or fireplace in the building.......well......stick with well seasoned wood.
Poplar ("poppler") is a soft wood, like pine, and thus doesn't produce a lot of heat when burned. If well seasoned it will burn quickly and well in most stoves. Unlike pine, which contains a lot of resin which will deposit dangerous creosote in your chimney if burned slowly, well-seasoned poplar is relatively clean-burning. Hard woods such as maple, oak, cherry, etc. will provide more heat per volume of wood.
Seasoned for fireplace wood, deadfall for in a forest
Seasoned for fireplace wood, deadfall for in a forest
charcoal
It is undergoing a physical change from wood to ash.
Why not just put a stack of dollar bills in the stove? You are burning some valuable wood there. Wood turners and bow makers use it..........
Any wood is good for burning in a wood burner as long as it has been dried and seasoned.