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I moisture tested an old broom handle that hadn't seen the light of day for years and it read 16% which says to me that timber resorts back to the amount of moisture in the atmosphere where its stacked, which makes no sense to me to kiln dry it down to 8% then stack in a barn etc where its around 16%. Technically I'm probably completely wrong and stand to be corrected.

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I moisture tested an old broom handle that hadn't seen the light of day for years and it read 16% which says to me that timber resorts back to the amount of moisture in the atmosphere where its stacked, which makes no sense to me to kiln dry it down to 8% then stack in a barn etc where its around 16%. Technically I'm probably completely wrong and stand to be corrected.

 

I think you are completely right Steve . I stack my logs in the summer in the out side log stores and one indoor one The outside ones come down pretty quick to as low a 11% sometimes , the indoor ones don't come down very quickly at all , maybe 25% . Then as the sun and wind go and the wind and rain come ( about nowish ) the out side ones creep up and end up say 20% when I come to use them and the inside ones creep down to 20% and I use them last .

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I moisture tested an old broom handle that hadn't seen the light of day for years and it read 16% which says to me that timber resorts back to the amount of moisture in the atmosphere where its stacked, which makes no sense to me to kiln dry it down to 8% then stack in a barn etc where its around 16%. Technically I'm probably completely wrong and stand to be corrected.

 

Yep spot on. Scroll down to the tables in both links

 

http://www.davisnet.com/product_documents/weather/app_notes/93004_322-AN_22-moist-content-wood.pdf

 

Moisture Content of Wood | Timber moisture content | Wood Movement

 

Cant get our logs below 20% in an average Dartmoor winter.

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I moisture tested an old broom handle that hadn't seen the light of day for years and it read 16% which says to me that timber resorts back to the amount of moisture in the atmosphere where its stacked, which makes no sense to me to kiln dry it down to 8% then stack in a barn etc where its around 16%. Technically I'm probably completely wrong and stand to be corrected.

 

Quite right, we can kiln dry down to less than 6 so it doesn't even register but we aim for less than 20 and just explain to customers who want it drier that they won't gain anything.

 

We only dry so we can keep cutting through the winter anyway and to be honest we're currently burning 30% ash on our fire with no problem. It's just a matter of providing what the customer wants.

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I moisture tested an old broom handle that hadn't seen the light of day for years and it read 16% which says to me that timber resorts back to the amount of moisture in the atmosphere where its stacked, which makes no sense to me to kiln dry it down to 8% then stack in a barn etc where its around 16%. Technically I'm probably completely wrong and stand to be corrected.

 

This just has to be THE argument against kiln dried. Leave the god damn wood outside long enough and it will season on its own. Of course temperate moisture will cause very dry to not very dry. It's like leaving an airing cupboard dry t shirt ( kiln dried) on the line tonight outside, guess what....

How many people who buy 2 cube crates of kiln dried store it properly, very very very few.

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This just has to be THE argument against kiln dried. Leave the god damn wood outside long enough and it will season on its own. Of course temperate moisture will cause very dry to not very dry. It's like leaving an airing cupboard dry t shirt ( kiln dried) on the line tonight outside, guess what....

How many people who buy 2 cube crates of kiln dried store it properly, very very very few.

 

I would think that if you buy kiln dried directly from the kiln, the only way you could store it and keep at kiln dried moisture content is in a working kiln or similar???

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