Dry firewood fast?

Youtub3 says you can roast it in your oven for an hour at 225 degrees.  Get a moisture meter (under $20) and see what you have. If it's under 15 percent, burn it. If it's more than that, trade it for something better.

Drying it in a kiln is the only way. Splitting it way down to small pieces will speed up the drying and make burning easier but time is the cheapest way to go.

There really is no practical way to dry firewood quickly.

Since it wasn’t seasoned or allowed to dry, the green wood uses its energy trying to remove the moisture from the wood rather than warming your home. It is an inefficient use of your firewood and a waste of money to burn it that way. A common misconception is that unseasoned wood will not light. This is incorrect, unseasoned wood is more difficult to get lit and then will burn very inefficiently.

That moisture that the green wood is burning out with so much effort is also a problem. The moisture creates smoke, creates more creosote as it burns, and sticks to your chimney. This can cause long term problems with your fireplace’s flue.

Here are a few safety tips related to burning wood in your fireplace this winter:

Burn only seasoned wood

Never leave a fire unattended

Use a protective barrier

Keep fire extinguishers handy

Use a working smoke detector

Call 911 and LEAVE if a fire erupts

That is why they GAVE it to you. They can't sell it.  Now, go and buy some dry firewood. If it is wet it is a poor source of heat.  You almost can put your hand into the flame and not get burnt, that is how cold it is.

. You want evergreen tree wood.  That has pitch, which is like TAR and burns hot.  Broadleaf trees have little tar, some like cedar the sap is like water...as the tree grows in swampy ground.

I start my open fire with a bed of smokeless coal. Once that gets going it dries out and burns damp logs ok.

Bring it indoors, and stack it open cut (face) up {to let moisture evaporate out.}  semi-joke: Then soak in gasoline, oil, or kerosene before placing the wood in the fireplace. <-  DO NOT DO THAT !  [Consider trading or selling the unseasoned firewood to get dry wood that will burn.]  

It would help to know how unseasoned it is. I mean, was it cut last week or 3 months ago, and how was it stored since then? And what kind of wood is it? Some dry faster than others. The only real way to speed up seasoning is to put it somewhere dry and warm with good air flow. A heated garage with a fan and a slightly open window, for instance. It will still take a month or more to be really dry enough to burn and I'd say a month is being really optimistic. If it's split small and stacked with lots of air space between the pieces it will dry faster. Don't do it inside your house. Fresh wood can have a lot of bugs in it that you don't want in your house.

Trying to burn wet wood is false economy. Not only will it produce less heat and make it harder to keep a fire going properly, it will put a lot of creosote into your chimney and that's the major cause of chimney fires. Could be downright dangerous.

Split it as small as possible and allow it to dry with good airflow around it