How dry can you get your logs?

[Albedo]

As dry as a dry thing, but not as dry as Alycidon gets:001_smile:

 

Like timtree I've got 18 month old hardwood, split and stored undercover outside at 15% right through.

 

One year old stuff is all 16% on the outside right now and from 2 - 4% higher on the inside.

 

The wood in my humble wood lined caravan in which I live is from 9 to 18% and I run a wood burner in here. Maybe I should go live in the log pile:001_smile: The higher MC wood indoors is pallet wood so thicker and the lower MC is tongue and groove.

[Stereo]

I wonder how much wood those guys burned to heat that oven for 8 hours. I've toyed with building a similar oven just to finish off logs before burning but you would have to have a long bake and that in itself would need a lot of fuel. Seems inneficient to me unless the heat was a by-product of something else.

[likeitorlumpit]

presumably the idea was that a 20 tonne load at 20% would weigh 16tonnes at 1% so you could carry 25% more wood per load and that is a profit so long as drying by heating doesn't swallow it all up which I reckon it would.

[weldersunited]

The ones in my home logstore outside are reading on average about 17%, the ones that i brought in and put by the stove last night are showing 8% and the ones in the barn I don't know as it's 5 miles away and pi$$ing it down so will check another day....

[teepeeat]

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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Got a new moisture meter and couldn't help yourself Kev :lol:

 

Interesting - have got a bit of what I think was robinia in my pile - tree been down a couple of years and been stacked since and still seems quite wet, but dont have a meter to check.

[Albedo]

My mums garden shed is 12% on the outside:001_smile:

[Rob D]

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!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Does this not say 20% as the meter is facing him?

 

 

1-2% - I would be very very surprised is this was achievable... and if it was no way on a commercial scale - you'd have to put more energy in than you'd get out of the dry wood.

[Nick Watkins]

Does this not say 20% as the meter is facing him?

 

 

No I don't think so. If you look at the on/off button it is the right way up in the picture and shows 0.2 If is was the other way around then it would definitely show 20. The piece of wood looks more like a piece of charcoal.

[Mad_Abbot]

I've been outside in the rain collecting apples all day for cider making, my internal meter says the crack of my a@@e is at 100%MC

[gensetsteve]

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!

 

I have the same meter as this works well but does not auto turn off so drains the expensive pp3 . When the low bat symbol is on accuracy goes out the window and it talks rubbish. I find the stihl one a bit optomistic by about 3 % dryer than it is.