Rain moisture

[Albedo]

No worries Yeti, get your live science here:001_smile:

 

Not much change in the last hour, its stopped raining again for the moment...and started again as I speak.

 

Still only added about 4 grammes in weight over 5 hrs.

 

I need Tony S now to tell me if 4g in a thousand grammes is 0.04% or something. :confused1:That percentage being concentrated at the surface, so will dry out quick.

 

I might do this again if I can get some really accurate scales. There's lots of ways this bit of science could be improved, but I think we already have some usable indications that a night in the rain can't harm it too much.

 

Edit: I would add that it looks soaked, so you would think it was ruined just by looking at it

Edited February 5, 2011 by Albedo

[slack ma girdle]

tried a dehumidifier to help dry logs last night. A couple of vented dumpys with a tarp over them to the ground and the dehumidifier inside the tarp, good result wet logs last night almost dry logs this morning.may make a drying room in a corner of the shed.

 

How much electricty did the dehumidfier use ?

[Albedo]

Here's an interesting thing,...

 

After 5.5 hrs in the rain, there was 1/2 an hour of warmish wind. It had looked soaked thru and in this pic you can see its already started to dry.

 

My scales are not very accurate but of the 4 or so grammes of moisture it had taken on .. a bit had gone.

[ben lightfoot]

Trying not to derail please give abuse if i have done but for you guys that sell firewood do you find there are more people out there as in customers with their moisture meters and stuff. Just from what it seems as a firewood spectator, a lot of people are jumping on the wood burner band wagon (and why not im mostly jealous as my current house wont suit one) and so the sales people of the burners are drumming in/educating what % moisture should be and so whats been previously said people are getting fussy, whereas long time customers just know whats good and what they need. Just something i have been wondering please reply or tell me to sod off and start my own thread

[elfinwood saws]

How much electricty did the dehumidfier use ?

 

the dehumidifier was a small domestic one made by EBAC, it is supposed cost the same to run as a fridge/freezer. Over night it made 2 dumpys of wet logs into 2 dumpys of burnable firewood. Must get a battery for my moisture meter and take readings this time.

[Yeti]

Trying not to derail please give abuse if i have done but for you guys that sell firewood do you find there are more people out there as in customers with their moisture meters and stuff. Just from what it seems as a firewood spectator, a lot of people are jumping on the wood burner band wagon (and why not im mostly jealous as my current house wont suit one) and so the sales people of the burners are drumming in/educating what % moisture should be and so whats been previously said people are getting fussy, whereas long time customers just know whats good and what they need. Just something i have been wondering please reply or tell me to sod off and start my own thread

 

Aye ben there's been a steady rise in the number of customers stood there waiting with moisture metre.

it annoys me when they then go and jam it just in the end or in the top of log,they hate it even more when i tell them if there

going to test my logs then do it properly and split her and test the middle.

I don't advertise a moistre content as weather is so un reliable round here I could ne'er guarantee what they will be,al I know is if there wet and white lookig they don't get sold till there dry old and cracking