On 9/11/2015 10:02 AM, Mike Marlow wrote:
Jack wrote:


Seasoned or not, wood takes a long, long, long time to get wet, green
or dry. You can throw a log into a lake, leave there for month, maybe
years, and the water will only penetrate a small amount, and if it was
dry when you put it in, it will burn just as it would have if kept dry
(after the small amount of surface moisture is steamed off).

The main reason for keeping firewood dry is to keep fungus and insects
out of the wood. Both of these guys love damp wood. Dry wood not so
much.

Absolutely correct.


And there is that reason of not getting filthy dirty when carrying with
loaded arms, wet wood.