Kiln dried wood burning too fast/expensive for some people

[cessna]

Are any of you that supply air dried logs, getting a few new customers who have come to you because they are finding kiln dried logs are burning too fast?

I ask the question as I have had a few customers say kiln dried wood burns too fast for them,and so have come to me for seasoned air dried logs.

[gdh]

I would have thought dry seasoned would burn just as fast.

 

Haven't had more than 1 or 2 people asking for slower burning wood ourselves, tend to find it's just a matter of putting the next log on the ash not keeping the fire constantly full when burning really dry stuff.

[skyhuck]

Why don't they simply turn their stove down?

 

If it's an open fire bigger logs are best.

 

Slower burning wet logs are a false economy, as they are simply wasting heat.

[Logsnstuff]

had a few customers who tried kiln dried and said they didn't like them.

[skyhuck]

had a few customers who tried kiln dried and said they didn't like them.

 

Wrong colour??

[Sparkhazey]

I think it's because a lot of the boxed kiln dried is Birch! Had a customer telling me he used a mix of kiln dried and our seasoned logs because the kiln dried burned so quickly. Didn't like to tell him it was nothing to do with the kiln drying, simply just the type of wood!

[Logsnstuff]

Wrong colour??

 

as has been said burning too fast, you have people supposedly drying down to 5% and below I already posted the part from FC research on why you shouldnt waste time burning wood below 15%

[skyhuck]

I think it's because a lot of the boxed kiln dried is Birch! Had a customer telling me he used a mix of kiln dried and our seasoned logs because the kiln dried burned so quickly. Didn't like to tell him it was nothing to do with the kiln drying, simply just the type of wood!

 

Wise words

[skyhuck]

as has been said burning too fast, you have people supposedly drying down to 5% and below I already posted the part from FC research on why you shouldnt waste time burning wood below 15%

 

Yes theres nothing worse than wood thats just too dry

[Logsnstuff]

log stoves too are designed to operate optimally at a specific range of moisture content, typically 15-25% (wet basis) as this is the value that dried wood will tend to stabilize at if stored outdoors, under cover in the British climate, even if it’s initially kiln dried lower. Lower MC woodfuel can be burned perfectly well, and very efficiently, as is the case with wood pellets that are typically <10% MC, however that’s because the boiler/stove is designed and optimized for this range. I haven’t seen the specific EPA report you mention, but it is likely that a stove designed for 15-25% will not work as well at lower values.