[RedMonqey]

Thoroughly dried wood burns hotter and with less smoke, but the time (or money) required to have it is counter-productive for those who work for a living.

Burning, uncured, green wood in a wood store or brick fireplace creates a layer of cresote that, if left unremoved, can catch fire within the flue and burn your house down.

It takes no more effort to cut and burn dried wood but you do have to the work ahead of time(we cut our own off our farm woods) and do it at the end of summer, beginning of fall.

We have several cords laid up in our woodshedfcor the winter. Beginners can use a good tarp if not prepared for cost of building a proper shed, just keep if it out of the weather.

Buying wood takes time too, if you wait til the snow starts flying, you will pay preium prices(from people like us) who did the work ahead of time

We use a mix of dried wood with a stick or two of relatively green at nighttime to keep the fire going til morning .

And we always have the flues professional cleaned befory burning season begins...

[xzins]

My furnace is outdoors, so I don’t have creosote concerns.

Now, it’s not the best to use green wood. But the new standard of moisture that I’ve read about says you cut it, let it sit a year, and then the 2nd year it’s at that moisture content. I ain’t got no time for that.

If I cut in the spring, I want to use it starting that fall.