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I used this as my guide for adopting a high temperature kiln

 

http://www.firewoodkiln.com/pdf/fplrn254.pdf

 

That's a nice brief paper, I hadn't seen it and it pre dates our offering by 10 years.

 

The thing is once you invest vast sums in the structure you must have a high throughput and the limiting factor is getting the water to move out of the wood rather than passing enough dry air over the surface.

 

Otherwise 20 days in the summer will do the job with no artificial heat input but that's no good if you have no dry wood now.

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That's a nice brief paper, I hadn't seen it and it pre dates our offering by 10 years.

 

The thing is once you invest vast sums in the structure you must have a high throughput and the limiting factor is getting the water to move out of the wood rather than passing enough dry air over the surface.

 

Otherwise 20 days in the summer will do the job with no artificial heat input but that's no good if you have no dry wood now.

 

Thats the thing with solar rhi the initial cost is affordable and you have a guaranteed income for 20 years which is only dependent on the amount of sunshine not on the volume of kiln dried timber produced.

As for dry timber in the winter I have changed my processing so that processor size timber is cut and split during the summer and put in the solar kilns for winter sales. The over processor size just split during the summer into billets and put into the solar kilns ready for processing in winter when the split logs run out.

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Thats the thing with solar rhi the initial cost is affordable and you have a guaranteed income for 20 years which is only dependent on the amount of sunshine not on the volume of kiln dried timber produced.

As for dry timber in the winter I have changed my processing so that processor size timber is cut and split during the summer and put in the solar kilns for winter sales. The over processor size just split during the summer into billets and put into the solar kilns ready for processing in winter when the split logs run out.

 

How much can you fit in it your whole supply for the season.

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