Cord supplies.

[Johny Walker]

I bet that when you cut and split it the moisture content on the freshly split face will be 25% - 30%. If it was cut a split earlier in the summer it should be OK.

 

Invest in a moisture meter, £36 inc VAT and tax deductible to boot, you then know exactly where you are.

 

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NOPE!!! it was all 20% & lower :biggrin:got a metre

[farmer_ben]

i admit, my timber is stacked and then i process to order. I dont have the room or time to do it any other way. The other chap in my yard also does it same as me and it suits as well. There are certain lengths of timber that once split is really obvious its not fit to send out, so we put this split stuff into cages and leave it till end of the season.

 

All the best

[slack ma girdle]

Wood in the round does not season, it has to be split. Sawn timber takes approx a year an inch to dry, so a 12" inch round log will take 12 years !!

 

GET IT SPLIT

[Dave Martin]

i admit, my timber is stacked and then i process to order. I dont have the room or time to do it any other way. The other chap in my yard also does it same as me and it suits as well. There are certain lengths of timber that once split is really obvious its not fit to send out, so we put this split stuff into cages and leave it till end of the season.

 

All the best

 

Thats a very honest post Ben ... your a man I would buy a car from

[gensetsteve]

We dont need to cut and split a year in advance now because all our customers will have read this thread and know they need to order a year in advance

[Rob D]

There have been several threads recently requesting a supply of cord. Are you all planning to process it and sell it this winter?, I assume thats what you have in mind but hardwood simply wont be dry enough for optimum results.

 

I have been processing stuff over the last few months that has been felled for between one and three years, the soft will be ok but the hard wont. I tested some Silver Birch, end grain of logs about 6%, in the center once cut and split was nearer 40%.

 

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I agree with all the above.

 

But the 6% moisture content on the end grain I would query - wood will get down to 14% minimum outside but no less.

 

Even a super charged kiln would struggle to get to 6%!

 

May be the moisture meter is not accurate across the face.

[Rob D]

Stacked cord like ash and sycamore seem to dry a lot faster than oak and beech left in the round.

 

But still not going to match the drying power of split wood!

[Johny Walker]

Wood in the round does not season, it has to be split. Sawn timber takes approx a year an inch to dry, so a 12" inch round log will take 12 years !!

 

GET IT SPLIT

 

so what your saying is im a liar & the 18mth felled s/w isnt dry

[mendiplogs]

so what your saying is im a liar & the 18mth felled s/w isnt dry

 

HI picker your right there mate cut it into logs all the best jon

[renewablejohn]

Invest in a solar kiln. Dries down to less than 20% in 3 months during the summer and takes 6 months in winter, all cut and split and stacked in IBC cages for good air circulation.