R.ange of moisture content of air dried logs you sell

[White Noise]

My Logs are stored in numerous homemade Heras fence panel bays with a lorry tarp over the top for 12 months . Both ends are left open . My logs go out at 16 / 24 % on average . In summer time we often take the tarps off if we are sure of a hot day

[HertsWood]

The moisture content of our firewood is currently 14 - 16%.

 

When we were audited by WoodSure and Grown in Britain earlier in the year , oven dry tests showed our firewood was 12 - 13.8%.

 

Pretty good for barn dried firewood.

[Peasgood]

I sometimes test the furniture and woodwork inside my house.

Obviously I don't actually split the chair legs and test the fresh cut surface but I have yet to find anything below 15%.

 

The logs I burn are split and covered and do measure 15% when re-split and tested properly.

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

These last two posts pee on Kiln Dried's bonfire quite nicely.

[richardwale]

if I had a secret kiln at the yard, I'd rather say they were air seasoned than kiln dried to the customer, much more of a selling point to me!

[sandspider]

As a customer, I'd personally buy air dried over kiln dried!

[skyhuck]

I hear the Scouts have started to use a kiln, they claim it's the future

[Justme]

As we've been getting through the log store I've noticed that the cut and split logs in the middle are less dry, 25%+ MC on a fresh split edge compared with about 20% on a log from the outside edges.

 

You need to subdivide the pile.

 

Use a double thickness of pallets to make bays so the air can get all round.

 

Long thin piles are better than square ones.

[Big J]

Long thin piles are better than square ones.

 

Personally, I've found that all and any piles are deeply unpleasant. That being said, the idea of square ones fills me with terror!