Wood Faq

DAMPNESS OF WOOD SCALE:

Wood burns well and can be worked well when it is dry. As you cut it down it can have more than 50% in humidity. So in average;
After 6 months cut it still has 30-40% Humidity!
12 months ..20-30%...
18 months ..15-25% ...
After such a time the natural drying process ends.

BURNING POWER SCALE:

When dry a # hetre# has a power of 4,000 #calories so with 10% humidity it has only 3,580 ........
20% 3,200 ........
30% 2,900 ........
Green 50% 2,450 ........

HERE IS A SCALE PER KILOGRAM OF DRY WOOD HEATING POWER:

PINE 4,700 TO 4,500
#EPICEA# 4,500 TO 4,200
#HETRE# 4,500 TO 4,000
#BOULEAU# 4,300 TO 4,200
#SAPIN# 4,300 AVERAGE
#MELEZE CHENE# 4,100 .......
#FRENE AULNE# 4,000 .......
MAPLE 3,800 .......

HOW TO EASILY DESTROY A STUMP:

Once install in the forest or near the water for a certain time, some stump badly placed can be a nuisance to your set up. So without using dynamite, or bazooka; Rambo they gotta go.

A good way to do so it to pierce several holes in the stump fairly deep using a wooden drill and to fill those holes with nitrate de potassium in powder form, grind it if you have to.

Next you cover those holes with a little amount of clay to stop the rain washing out the saltpetre and you wait a few days so that it is sucked in by the sap in all the parts of the stump.

Once you think that it is time you then light a fire on the stump using some branches, the fire will go deep even to the deepest part of the stump with the help of the oxygen brought by the nitrate, then it is a child play to remove the charred parts.