quick drying

[Jack-Arb aka Tiago Sinclair-Julio.]

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!

 

Hi logman,

 

No energy used? How do you do that in such short space of time with no power?

 

Is it just wind going the tunnels?

 

 

Tiago

[log man]

the tunnels get pretty hot inside, but airflow is the most important thing.

[Quickthorn]

9%..I take it that was a damp meter measurement..was that the outside of a log, or did you split a sample and test the inside?

[log man]

outside, customer tested it!

[Dean Lofthouse]

outside, customer tested it!

 

It would be interesting to see what it measured in the middle, I always test my logs by splitting them and testing inside.

[Log-ologist]

outside, customer tested it!

 

 

my customers test them inside.

 

 

on the fire lol.

[Quickthorn]

It would be interesting to see what it measured in the middle, I always test my logs by splitting them and testing inside.

 

Yes..I've read 10% on the outside of some logs, then nearly 30 % on the inside when freshly split. The 10% bit only went to a depth of half inch or so.

[Brushcutter]

I dry my firewood in a big glass house have two of the vents open for a bit of air flow. Our lack of a hot summer has slowed down drying a bit. It's quicker than drying it outside though.

[firewoodman]

yeah. been a bad summer for drying wood and it aint looking any better either!!!!!!!!!!!!