Any wet firewood tricks?
Any tricks to dry out wet (as in damp from rain, not green) firewood? We typically use the dryer pieces and stack the wetter ones around the outside of the fire ring so they can start to dry a bit as...
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Redsky wrote:
Best trick I ever saw was while on a diving trip in British Columbia. The crew had us gather all the very wet wood on the beach and stack it into a pyre. Then one of them poured diesel fuel over the wood and took one of the scuba tanks and cranked it open to provide a solid jet of air and lit the pyre. Instant blazing fire.
The scuba tank was what made the difference with its constant stream of air coming from the tank at 2800 PSI.
One of the many uses of a compressor. Get dry kindling going in the center. Add air. Make um big fire in no time at all.
