Last month to process logs to sell this coming Winter ?

[Mortimer Firewood]

Are these costs not covered by the premium of a better product, less storage required, reduced handling and the fexabily to meet market demand.

 

Not wanting to be picky but reduced handling less storage.

 

Most merchants i know say theres loads more handling involved in Kd as for storage your still going to need the same amount of split firewood to keep up with demand weather its kd or seasoned it still needs to be split ready to go in kiln.IF your selling a couple of hundred loads a year you will keep up. If your doing a couple of thousand it needs to be split.

 

The major benefits with a kiln is when your out of stock of dry wood you can dry more wood ready and the obvious rhi income.

[Mortimer Firewood]

Disagree - better product and reduced handling.

 

Agree - less storage area required and ability to react to demand ( but only if you cannot afford to buy stock to air dry)

 

Not to mention carbon foot print which more and more customers seem to be more and more interested in.

[skyhuck]

Disagree - better product

 

How much kiln dried have you burnt?

[skyhuck]

Not to mention carbon foot print which more and more customers seem to be more and more interested in.

 

Sustainably sourced fire wood is carbon neutral.

[arboriculturist]

How much kiln dried have you burnt?

 

I have a kiln and find kiln dried burns the same as our air dried wood at 20%.

 

If dried to below 15% the burn rate is faster, perhaps 20%.

 

If dried below 15% the wood burns slightly faster again but when kiln dried to these moisture levels the wood looses a range of the volatiles it contains.

 

So 'very dry' kiln dried logs burn more intensly, hotter and faster, just like softwood - The end result "can be" a wood that has the same characteristics as Softwood.

 

People buy Hardwood as it generally lasts longer, so kiln drying below 20% removes the very quality people buy it for.

 

There is adequate research conclusions out there to support these statements.

[Mortimer Firewood]

Sustainably sourced fire wood is carbon neutral.

 

So you are talking about your own set up not in general?

 

How much product have you sold not including what you produce to sell back to feed your own kiln?

[mendiplogs]

No, mine takes days!

 

Hi R5 then Yours would only take 3 days to seasons if anyone 1 hr to season you would say 10 mins thanks Jon

[Logsnstuff]

Hi R5 then Yours would only take 3 days to seasons if anyone 1 hr to season you would say 10 mins thanks Jon

 

better be careful Jon admin loves these guys say too much you will get an infraction pm too Thanks

[Steve Bullman]

Get over it or leave, thanks

[R5log]

Hi R5 then Yours would only take 3 days to seasons if anyone 1 hr to season you would say 10 mins thanks Jon

 

 

I think what I get from that is

I talk cr#p, is that right john?