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[MiHawkeye]

Does anyone use the wood moisture meters to check the water content?  I'm new to the OWBs, and have all my wood cut, split, and seasoned, just seeing what everyone else does.

[willieG]

i just stay at least one full year ahead, thats dry enough

[Scott7m]

Have moisture meters but ahh, just cut it a year or so in advance and your fine

Down here where it's hotter than blue blazes in the summer, if I cut in April it's fine in october

[yoderheating]

 I cut the week I burn for the most part, just clean up one of the farms as I go. I haven't cut the first stick for this year, its been to hot.

[Speed]

I cut the week I burn for the most part, just clean up one of the farms as I go. I haven't cut the first stick for this year, its been to hot.

Ah, you like living dangerously! Lol.

 Lately, all I have been burning is white ash, which is standing dead, thanks to the ash borer. It'll burn immediately, but I cut through the summer for the winter. But, I'm getting that cleaned up so been starting to get ahead with oak, maple, birch, cherry, and other various woods that need thinning. A year is ok with most, oak seems better at two years, and optimum by three. Now that the ash is disappearing, I figure I'll go back to cutting everything as often as I can. That way, I'll get back to a few years ahead. I'd probably have a mountain right now if it hadn't been for the corn burner experiment. It was alright, but glad to be back to wood. Especially with the owb, life has never been better.

[bajonesy77]

I think the moisture in wood for gassers and indoor stoves  would be more crucial but a little seasoning helps everything burn better. I just got all my tri-axle load I ordered cut and split in september so it won't be very seasoned at all. I ordered it back in the spring but all the rain  this spring/summer put a damper on the wood cutters this summer.