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Today's topic is how to heat your home with a wood stove and wet or green wood.
Paul starts out by stating the wisdom that you should only burn dry wood. However, sometimes you need heat and you don't have any dry wood - sometimes, you have to use wet or green wood but burning green wood is not a good idea - what you need to do is dry the wood fast.
Using wet or green wood for heating is a lot of extra work. If you really need heat now, you can also burn cardboard or paper waste.
Having a place to store wood makes a big difference, especially if you can store the wood indoors so it dries better. You can get or make crates to store wood. Stacking wood on end makes it dry much faster; also cutting the wood down to smaller sizes makes it dry faster. Cutting the wood shorter also helps.
Paul uses crates to hold wood, which can be brought inside to dry faster. They're great for stacking wood to dry in, you can stack them around the stove, a couple feet away. You shouldn't put wood right against or on top of the stove as it's dangerous, it can emit fumes and could even catch on fire. By using all these tips wet wood can be dry enough to burn in just a few days.
Samantha joins in. She has lived in the Pacific north west where wet wood is common. She says if you find a dead tree which is leaning, the underside of it can be drier and also the inside of the wood can be drier, even if it's been in the rain. Split off the outside of the wood to leave that to dry more while you burn the inside parts.
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