quick drying

[David Riding]

Has anyone ever heard of drying firewood indoors with heaters etc to speed up process. I presume this is ridiculous idea but thought of doing this with a generator run on vege oil and industrial heaters. If this is not a ridiculous idea how much would it speed up the process?

[firewoodman]

it will work but you also need airflow.

 

effectivly you are making a kiln

[Giles Hill]

If they're for your own use, they dry out pretty quickly next to a stove - you can get a rota going with tomorrows logs drying on one side and tonight's logs on the other.

[Peter]

heat exchanger in the woodchip pile has to be a winner.

[Mr Ed]

There was a guy in Lakeland who developed a system. Same guy who invented teh Kindling machine and sold the rights to Fuelwood.

It could get a pallet / stillage of wet logs bone dry overnight...

 

Whicheverway you look at it though, its going to cost a lot.

A solar kiln would be best.

[ScottF]

There was a guy in Lakeland who developed a system. Same guy who invented teh Kindling machine and sold the rights to Fuelwood.

It could get a pallet / stillage of wet logs bone dry overnight...

 

Whicheverway you look at it though, its going to cost a lot.

A solar kiln would be best.

 

How about a polytunnel outside with a fan pushing the air in one end and out the other?

[Tom D]

I've seen kiln dried logs for sale before, IMO a total waste of energy, one of the major benefits of burning wood is its green credentials. Any energy used to dry it could surely have been put to better use. I'd go for the poly tunnel idea but with the ends open and get plenty air through, any open sided structure would be good, although its possible to get them below 20 % just sitting in a heap in the open if they're split.

[log man]

5 weeks ago we cut & split 14t of oak,cherry&cedar. put it in one of our drying tunnels. delivered 8 loads of it today at 9%.used no energy & cost nothing to dry!

[Lee Winger]

5 weeks ago we cut & split 14t of oak,cherry&cedar. put it in one of our drying tunnels. delivered 8 loads of it today at 9%.used no energy & cost nothing to dry!

 

 

Thats good going, are you having any trouble getting timber?

[log man]

yes! way its been last 6wks could be 600t short of what ineed for this winter.