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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 :thumbdown:)

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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 :thumbdown:)

 

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 .

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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!

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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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