Drying logs - get creative for me.

[TTS North]

So you're in a forest.

 

You've an unlimited supply of cut wood which you need to dry out for firewood.

 

You've also got an unlimited supply of dried out brash and other waste wood fuel lying around.

 

What would you build to use the heat from the burnt waste stuff to dry the good stuff?

 

You can only use what equipment and materials you can find lying around (rocks are the only thing I suppose you'd already find there) or can scavenge for free elsewhere and can carry into the forest by hand.

 

[scbk]

No need to bother, the logs will dry themselves!

[NoRush]

Be careful when building your own dryer. A guy down the road did now he's selling charcoal

[renewablejohn]

In Sweden I saw a wooden house using a Masonary stove with the logs dried in the upstairs loft. The house had a grass sod roof for insulation. The ceiling was slatted to allow the heat to rise and there was far more beams than normal to hold the weight of the logs.

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

So you're in a forest.

 

You've an unlimited supply of cut wood which you need to dry out for firewood.

 

You've also got an unlimited supply of dried out brash and other waste wood fuel lying around.

 

What would you build to use the heat from the burnt waste stuff to dry the good stuff?

 

You can only use what equipment and materials you can find lying around (rocks are the only thing I suppose you'd already find there) or can scavenge for free elsewhere and can carry into the forest by hand.

 

 

Then I'd wake up.

[se7enthdevil]

balance all the logs in the tree branches so they get good air flow.

 

use the dry waste stuff first and brash for kindling whilst the good wood dries for a few months...

[Cae Ffynnon]

Well if its flights of fantasy...

 

Chip the brash in a big enough pile to have a coiled water pipe in it as you go and using the heat from the pile as it breaks down to heat a drying store. Then with some of your now dry logs you can make charcoal. Which means that....

 

Set up a gas producer to burn the volatile gases given off in a diesel generator, using the electricity to heat a timber built drying store.

 

So producing charcoal as a by-product, safely getting rid of the gases and warming a store to dry the logs ...

[TTS North]

Good ideas - got the grey matter working. Thanks.