Drying floor

[gdh]

What sort of lengths and widths

Our standard firewood is 9, 12 and and a bit of 18 inch which is split 6 ways so a width of 1 - 4 inches.

[BARNSLEY BOB]

Posch packfix,,,,,,,,,,,??????

[gensetsteve]

Our standard firewood is 9, 12 and and a bit of 18 inch which is split 6 ways so a width of 1 - 4 inches.

 

When you say stored in lengths do you mean cordwood. I cut some 12" ash into 3ft lengths and left them for 18 months when logged they burned slowly and poorly. When metered the moisture was still above 35%. From my experience seasoning in cord lengths is very slow.

[gdh]

We store it like this and ideally want to dry it without changing the system.

[BARNSLEY BOB]

done that.

 

mouldy logs for sure.

 

no substitute for air flow.

 

and blowing air and or heating aint cheap. using 60l/day with my simple setup when humidity is below 85/90 %

[gdh]

done that.

mouldy logs for sure.

Yep.

This was the first year we stockpiled that much in advance and we had exactly that problem so we thought if we wanted to keep stockpiling, which we will have to do if we can't get a few dry days anymore, we need to find a drying system.

We can get the heat through hot water pipes from a boiler but I don't think that a heated floor will do any good because theres no where for the moisture to go.

We came to the conclusion that blowing air up through a drying floor would be the best option but because of the cost I thought I would look around to see if someone had tried something similar or knew of a good system.

[mendiplogs]

We store it like this and ideally want to dry it without changing the system.

 

HI MATE it will not dry like that the log pile is to large no air flow so the logs will go mouldy lots wind you need and sun the barn looks like a new one to good for logs :thumbup:jon

[Tommywommy]

If you have access to a loader just move weekly from one corner of shed to another, i know its a ball ache but think of it as windrowing like compost production, alternatively we have used for grain a mesh half tube ( imagine upside down V ) with lots of 4 mm holes, hessian over sections and suck air out not blow in, would at least increase air flow through pile, Reduce the likelyhood of mouldy logs and would no be permenant on the floor of your shed ( Drying floors are great til they start collapsing or get a hard driver on them ! )

Tommywommy:tee:

[BARNSLEY BOB]

well put Tommywommy ,,oh and dont forget the cost.

[Johny Walker]

Any more results from using a drying floor

 

tia