kiln drying question

[briquette_seller]

Yes we dry our "burning logs" in the kiln. Like any stove they work so much better with the correct moisture content fuel.

Our kiln dried is £120 and seasoned £95 a cubic metre

 

I was of the impression this was not allowed?

I have heard from quite a few RHI claimants, that your not allowed to dry the fuel you burn in your boiler?

[ash_smith123]

Completely untrue. A lot of people talk a lot of rubbish about the RHI scheme mainly taken from renewable energy companies who don't have a clue what they are on about. Chinese whispers sort of thing

[briquette_seller]

Completely untrue. A lot of people talk a lot of rubbish about the RHI scheme mainly taken from renewable energy companies who don't have a clue what they are on about. Chinese whispers sort of thing

 

Not quite sure Offgem would agree, but hey ho.

 

Burning wood, to dry wood, to burn in a kiln, to dry more wood, to be burnt, seems a little double Dutch to me.

 

I can see the logic in Renewablejohns system.

[detritus21]

Even if you couldn't use your own product to dry more wood there could easily be a fiddle where you do a paper exercise of selling to a third party to buy it straight back to burn so you are in essence buying from another source to power your kiln. Its not a bad use of energy to produce 66 cube from 6 cube of burnt wood. It gives a very high yield so would be quite energy efficient and I imagine cost effective when a bigger producer.

[ash_smith123]

Ofgem agreed because the point was bought up in a RHI meeting I went to a few weeks ago!

Im a self supplier on the BSL and I had stated on that I use kiln dried logs to fuel the boiler.

Yes it means I can buy in, produce and sell my wood in around 2 weeks. Normally I would be waiting over a year to produce and dry the wood naturally so It makes complete business sense. I've said it before a kiln isn't for everyone. If I only wanted to sell 100 cube a year on the side I wouldn't buy a kiln.

[briquette_seller]

Ofgem agreed because the point was bought up in a RHI meeting I went to a few weeks ago!

Im a self supplier on the BSL and I had stated on that I use kiln dried logs to fuel the boiler.

Yes it means I can buy in, produce and sell my wood in around 2 weeks. Normally I would be waiting over a year to produce and dry the wood naturally so It makes complete business sense. I've said it before a kiln isn't for everyone. If I only wanted to sell 100 cube a year on the side I wouldn't buy a kiln.

 

Ok.

 

What has your kiln increased your annual throughput too?

[ash_smith123]

I can dry roughly 3000 cubic metres a year.

[woodchief]

Does anyone know of a good and well priced online supplier of kiln dried logs, 30cm or less, for a wood burning stove? Or a london based supplier?