I just moved to NC and we regularly have trees fall in storms, so here is my question. Assuming I can get the tree people to cut the tree to manageable pieces, how do I season the wood for use in the outdoor fireplace?
Once it’s cut into smaller pieces, you stack it and let Mother Nature take its course. We cover ours with a tarp, but you leave it out to dry for several months to a year. We try to keep buggy soft wood separate from parts of the tree that were still good. We use the buggy wood outdoors in our fire pit. The other good wood we can use indoors.
I don’t know if this is how others do it or not. I know some folks who will use their fallen tree wood much earlier than we do. Sometimes, like out of necessity, I can understand that.
P.S. The tree people might agree to cut them in to 15” - 18” pieces, but you’ll need a log splitter to cut the sections into manageable pieces that you can stack for drying. Once the pieces are cut by the log splitter, you can split them into even smaller sizes by hand to a size you like to use.