How dry can you get your logs?

[Woodworks]

Exactly as per the title. If you leave your logs for many years how dry can you get them and were abouts in the country are you. I read on here of people air drying down to 13%, for me on Dartmoor this is completely unachievable without a kiln or poly tunnel but am I in a minority or do others struggle to get their logs as dry as they would like.

 

20% on average for me on a West facing hill on Dartmoor (at the moment 95% humidity outside )

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

Ditto dartmoor; 20% typically; 17% at best, often 25% in reality after the crap summer...

[Stubby]

Exactly as per the title. If you leave your logs for many years how dry can you get them and were abouts in the country are you. I read on here of people air drying down to 13%, for me on Dartmoor this is completely unachievable without a kiln or poly tunnel but am I in a minority or do others struggle to get their logs as dry as they would like.

 

20% on average for me on a West facing hill on Dartmoor (at the moment 95% humidity outside )

 

Got some that have been indoors in the log basket all summer reading 8% . That is the lowest reading on the Burely moisture meter that came with my stove .

[slack ma girdle]

I can usually get mine below 20% in a soggy field in west Wales.

 

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[face cord]

Some softwood logs I bought are @ 16%. Stored outside but under a tarp roof with sides open. (Averaging around 20% though to get all logs down to 16% probably takes ages.)

 

North Wales

Edited October 31, 2012 by face cord

[likeitorlumpit]

Taming the wood programme had a couple of guys getting wood down to 1 or 2%. Heating for 8 hrs to achieve this. Led to a light hotter burning product which they think will be a future fuel. I wonder how long it can stay at 1% moisture. probably need to store it shrink wrapped

[Sharkbait]

Taming the wood programme had a couple of guys getting wood down to 1 or 2%.

I'm fairly sure that was a load of cr@p. Firstly they measured on the outside of the [small] log and not the inside, and secondly it didn't look as if the prongs were touching the wood at all - my moisture meter reads 1-2% when it's not touching anything!

Edited October 31, 2012 by Sharkbait

[Nick Watkins]

If I remember correctly a snapped broom handle that lives in an airing cupboard was something like 7%. I fail to see how a log can get to 2%.

 

Even if it does it will suck up moisture as soon as it comes out, seems like a false economy.

[kev7937]

My wood flooring 2 ft I front of my stove was 2% this summer, my internal doors were about14%

 

Best I found in my stack was a bit of pear at about 14% was from a dead tree

 

Worst was a bit of robinia stored as cord for 1 year covered, then cut,split and stacked for a year 24%

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Edited October 31, 2012 by kev7937

[timtree81]

I had some 18 month old ash that was 15 %