Who needs kiln dried...

[csservices]

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 was thinking about this the other day reading one of the kiln drying threads, makes sense that there will be a base level moisture that timber will resort too.

 

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[richardwale]

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???

 

 

Thank you your honour...

[otter]

Thank you your honour...

 

At last, talking sense, always said this. Air humidity will always absorb back into the wood.

[richardwale]

So if i put a kiln dried log at 16% and and air dried log at 16% outside tonight in my wood store, would the kiln dried take in less moisture?

[richardwale]

That's fine but the point is my log is 16% already, sure it won't last like that for long now the weather is turning, but it's air dried, never been covered and that reading on the split face

[timjmac]

From experience over the years selling firewood ,a lot of customers burn wood because of its green credentials, if they knew the real cost of kiln drying logs and chips there would be an uproar!

[Acer Forestry]

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.

 

Nope, technically that sounds pretty accurate to me

[ash_smith123]

From experience over the years selling firewood ,a lot of customers burn wood because of its green credentials, if they knew the real cost of kiln drying logs and chips there would be an uproar!

 

 

Not really? It's pretty obvious when most people advertise that they have been kiln dried in their own biomass kiln system like we do.

[ash_smith123]

And you can all bang on about there's no need for kiln dried etc etc etc but there will always be a market for it. You can fight it until the cows come home but there's a lot of people selling a lot of kiln dried firewood

[Richard 1234]

And you can all bang on about there's no need for kiln dried etc etc etc but there will always be a market for it. You can fight it until the cows come home but there's a lot of people selling a lot of kiln dried firewood

 

 

That's true and good luck to you.....

Still daft burning wood to dry wood!