Personally, I don't mind doing this work in the warmer months, really depends on the weather, mainly the humidity. Clear days when the jet stream dips down from the north are usually great days for this kind of work, from felling to splitting. I have in the past, done quite a bit during the warmer months so the wood has some decent dry time.
This year, I hauled up 4 cord of dead elm mid fall, recently dead and or dying trees I cut the year before and landed on the slab of the old barn down below. Much of it was 20"-24" diameter. I had it blocked up immediately and kept it covered when needed. Dried ok, but handling the big stuff in cooler temps, probably beneficial, but it did not dry down the best. Much of this wood was not punked, so the un-altered elm wood is more work to split depending on the grain of the wood. I load up a big gardenway cart(s), to bring into the heated garage, then transfer to Jackson M11 wheel barrow, which gets parked by the stove in the back.
It dries down more and from the last clean out of the chimney, seems I did get a small amount of creosote, which was easily burned off in a hot cycle of the stove. I found a small amount of light popcorn creosote remnants. Better version of the same stove I have used, just about air tight, does not burn as hot with no air leaks, + some moisture in the wood, changed the conditions a little.
Now, had I cut this wood in the summer, definitely would have dried better, but once the fire is hot, coal bed good, I can still keep the flue temp hot with little smoke. All seemed to all work out so far this year, only 192 gallons of oil since the end of November, house is almost 3000 sq ft. Long winded diatribe, but cutting in the warmer months is still better if it has to be burned that season, otherwise, if it's 25 F to 30 F, calm, great weather for dealing with firewood, will dry all summer for the following season.
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