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As mentioned in the previous page in reference to burning rotten wood, likewise Un-cured wood will present a problem.
Un-cured firewood will leave you working like a dog to just keep the place warm. Un-cured wood will keep you pushing around the wood in the firebox to get more kindling under it (over and over and over), until finally the fire is hot enough to overwhelm the moisture in the un-cured wood.
1.) Oftentimes you will need to leave the damper open for extended periods of time, this will increase the air-flow (but the majority of the heat is lost up the chimney).
2.) Leave the draft control open, this will complement the open damper and create a turbo-effect of airflow.
3.) If your stove has an under-the-fire-box ash-tray, it might need to be left open slightly to feed more air into the firebox, also for extended periods of time to overwhelm the moisture content in that "green" wood.
However these methods allow most of the heat to escape right up the chimney!
4.) You might have to get a bit creative on your measures to keep the fire going, such as rekindling the fire when it goes out. Hopefully you have stored up all of the wood, cardboard, paper, and tissue trash into a store-room. You're probably going to need it.
The problem is that if you have any medium to large stove, re-situating the charred and smoldering non-cured wood high enough to allow kindling to be placed under the wood is no small task.
At times you might need to torture the wood.
My preferred method of torment is a cup of kerosene.
5.) As a last resort, you might need to cut up a chair or table or wooden fence as a constant burning agent beneath the un-cured wood.
6.) Another course of attack is to cut up the wood into smaller chunks.
When all you have is Un-cured wood available, cutting the usual-sized firewood in half will expose the wood to the air and allow the stove to be packed. It will, sooner or later, be able to stay lit.
The goal is to get a layer of "charcoal" and may require wasting the first load of wood to accomplish it. Once a layer of burning coals are made, the new load of wood should stay lit just fine but may require to have the draft control and ash-pan to remain open, with the damper down to retain the heat.
Firewood cures rather quickly with more exposed area.
*2024 Update! This season marks the start of the use of a new product to replace firewood!
These particular "logs" have come delivered by a company called EcoFireLogs and are pre-kiln-dried and highly compressed wood chips and sawdust.
This particular manufacturer has a mainstay of creating Oak Furniture worldwide and decided to create a product that has been well-appreciated using the otherwise wasted renewable resource.
In short, I very much like this new product. I never have to worry if I'm carrying in a log from a tree and wondering if it is too large for the stove. The compressed firelogs are uniform. In my particular stove a 6-pack of logs will stack evenly across the firebox with tons of room leftover yet create more heat than if I had packed the stove chock-full of tree logs!
The product, once lit, produces much less smoke than firewood.
The product creates less ash (you will not have to empty every day religiously.
The product does not make popping or crackling noises.
The product can have no bugs because it is kiln-dried and highly-compressed. Whereas firewood once brought indoors may release wood-boring ants or other creatures; no so with the compressed firelogs.
The product is pre-stacked on a pallet (but you can move and stack them much easier than firewood).
The product burns hotter than cured firewood (and never arrives uncured because the compressed firelogs are kiln-dried).
The product lights much easier than firewood, does not require kindling to start (whereas firewood requires a storehouse full of kindling acquired throughout the year and stockpiled for the winter months when it finally will be needed). A piece of cardboard lights these bricks easily and if I need it to light quicker I'll drool some kerosene over one of the compressed logs to light it.
And finally, this year put me in shock to find that firewood sellers are wanting $600 and $700 pricetags for a Cord of firewood! Whereas the One Ton Pallet of Compressed firelogs comes deliverd for $499.00 (you can actually buy the pallet for about half that price if you use your own truck to pick up the pallet(s) at their headquarters in Virginia).
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