what do you guys think , do you get more btu out of warm firewood than cold , I used to keep it all right outside

my door, but I've been bring it inside this winter and seem to be burning better , this is all season dry firewood?

I started more of bringing several days' worth of mine inside from the woodshed this year because blowing snow kept covering it when it was stacked outside my door. I think it does burn better than adding cold wood to the fire.

Agree with above. Been burning wood for 42 years and bring it inside. Also noticed that when it comes in from outside even though it’s covered it tends to be damp.

Downside is the bugs.

And all the debris: bark, wood splinters, dirt etc. I can't say warm wood burns any better, once it's seasoned, it will absorb water if rained on, and seems to suck up some in high humidity times, but dry's again quickly. Been using wood since '72, over 50 yrs.

dry is better

wood does not really burn, if it burnt there would be no ashes, heat turns most of the wood into gas which burrns, the ash is what is left. so theoreticly warm wood will burn faster than cold wood.

I don't think the temperature of the wood makes much of a difference in how well it burns. I do agree that wood stacked outside will absorb moisture from a damp atmosphere and that will negatively affect how it burns.

I bring in at least twenty-four hour's worth of wood each morning. Anything that looks like it might have ants or other insects gets left outside until I can feed it directly into the stove.

I bring mine inside, I think it dries more if it’s in for a few days, been thinking of adding another wood rack and alternating them, fill both and as they empty refill and use the other.

you don't burn wood , you burn wood gas

in order to get wood to off gas it needs to get to it's smoke temperature and auto ignition temp 572 degrees F

it makes sense that wood that starts around 70 and not 10 gets to it's smoke point faster

also you have warm dry air around the stove it dries things out on the surface quite quickly , it may have been at or below 16% but if you play with a moisture meter you start to see how much easier it is to light 12% wood than 15% wood and is you can get sub 10% it is like touch a match to it

under a roof made a huge difference for me , when I need good stuff to get a fire started I am reaching right up under the tin of my shed roof and grabbing down the driest wood there is all the little and odd shaped stuff gets stuffed up high actually between the rafters when I get to the top of a row.

warm helps a little more

it probably has more to do with that last few percent of moisture than actual temp as temp would change very quickly if you put a dry log in a 1500 degree stove with a good base of coals.

I built a shed with a roof over mine.

Wood doesn’t really burn? We burn wood gas? I’m such an idiot, all this time I thought we burnt wood. Along those same lines, we don’t eat food, we eat proteins fats and carbohydrates. We don’t breathe air, we breathe in oxygen and let carbon dioxide out. See how ridiculous it all sounds? We burn wood.

LOL

warm wood burns better, and the drier the better.
I put several days of kindling on the hearth, it gets very warm and very dry.
lights off much faster and easier.
I don't need paper or anything other the kindling to get a fire going.
I have to start a fire every day from scratch so I go thru a bunch of kindling every winter.

And yes, wood doesn't burn, it gets gets heated to the point that it starts gassing off then the gasses burn.
.Ever watch it burn, ever see the gas/smoke come out on the ends?
This gas will ignite and you'll see a small flame shooting out like a mini torch.

none are so blind as those that won't see.

I bring in several days worth and it greatly improves how it burns. Also have a fan on it so I feel it helps dry the wood a bit especially if it's in for 4 or 5 days.

I got gas.

Years ago I cleaned out a binch of wood for a guy clearing land, just for the wood.
Jhst now a dump truck full of logs showed up from same guy, just to get rid of em.

Karma.

No room fpr lazy in trapping or firewood.

I use Rubbermaid totes 3-4 of them to bring in wood , my stove is in the living room and this helps reduce the mess
there is still mess but less because the little debris that falls off mostly stays in the tubs

Yep, I think so too. I have no science to back that theory but just seems to heat/burn better. I'm talk well cured wood just that the wood is cold.

You get the same number of BTUs from the wood whether it is cold or warm. It will light easier warm because it has to reach a certain temperature for combustion to occur. Combustion is a chemical reaction and the chemicals are the same, and the heat given off by the reaction is the same, regardless of the temperature of the wood you put in the stove. If you are burning wood for heat, it is heat from the wood you burn that heats the firewood to room temperature when you stack some inside. One thing that might be advantageous from putting wood inside is drying it out before it goes in the stove. The moisture that goes into the house instead of the stove helps keep your inside moisture level up a bit and counter the drying effects of heating with wood. The moisture that goes into the stove with the wood just goes up the chimney.

If you burn too much wet/green wood you will get creosote leaking out the chimney.especially with some kinds of wood.
If I gotta burn green or wet wood I mix it up with dry/seasoned.