OK both are right or should I say OK. Just a few minutes each evening for a few days and you could pile your wood in a nice row on the pallett and your wood would be nice and dry for the burning season. Such a simple step and you might avoid a chimney fire etc. Wood was generally piled in "piles" by farmers because they just didn't have the time to pile it in rows.
Jun 21, 2011 Rating
Faster drying of wood by: Jan Johansson
Split wood will generally dry out faster than unsplit wood because the split pieces will expose more wood surface to the air. This is more pronounced when the pieces are with intact bark, then only the end surfaces will be the drying surface since the bark generally is very good keeping the moisture passing through.
Your neighbours system of piling will have the benefit of keeping the inner of the pile dry in case there comes rain on it, only the outermost layer gets wet. In case you have some kind of other roofing on your piles, that can be even better of course.
Once again, split or barked wood will dry faster than non split or non barked. Ultimately it is the size of surface exposed to air relative the volume of wood to dry, that should be maximized for optimum drying.
