I have the US Forest .pdf on both my phone and PC. It has been posted several times in this section of the website and is somewhat helpful, although my home isn't on their maps. Link thingy: https://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/documnts/fplgtr/fplgtr117.pdf
What I have right now are some 16" pieces of green frozen birch.
I worked over about three cords of 16" long rounds, but I was looking for chair parts and have a couple dozen clear pieces say 2" x 5" x 16" length. Quarter split, not quarter riven, I don't own a froe yet.
So now what? I have about six weeks to come up with a plan. If my plan doesn't work it is OK, I paid for cord wood and if these pieces don't become chair parts I can still cook with them, or toss them in the woodstove in a few months.
I want to build a drying rack(?) or tent (?) or stack (?) that can handle stock up to 6 feet long. I will put the pieces I have in it. The survivors I will attempt to steam bend in a few months.
I live in suburbia. A PO neighbor to the west put in a 6' chain link fence with the plastic bars in it that interfere with my dependable evening breezes from the west. A PO neighbor to the east put up a 6 foot cedar fence that interferes with my dependable morning breezes from the east. My lot is only about 8k sqft total, with a house and driveway and so on. The other problem is, in the summer around solstice, Mr. Sun rises 15 degrees east of north around 3 AM, proceeds in the usual manner about three hand breadths above the horizon for about 22 hours, and then dips below the horizon 15 degrees west of north around 1AM for 2 hours of civil twilight... and birch end checks horribly with sun exposure.
If I had a few acres in the country I could leave a few mature trees to provide both shade and not block airflow around my air drying stack. I do have a second floor deck with excellent airflow, but is south facing and I would need something pretty for the wife to sign off.
I do have enough sun now I could put my chair pieces in one of my firewood kilns (passive solar) and get them down to FSP by mid to late April. Should I square them up first or take off the bark? Working frozen wood is kind of a pain in the neck for anything other than splitting.
If I can get shade on it and airflow through it do I just wait? How do all y'all handle this down south?