Oli Jersey

Hello Tombo Thanks for the info on the Oak, i have been told 6 months to a year before kilning oak. not really sure if that applies to oak which has been down but not milled or only for freshly felled green oak. Logosol seems to think if the oak has been felled for a few years but just milled that will be ok and the tannin would have come out by then. i am still building the kiln, i hope to start it for the first time end of next week. it will be trail and error but will get there eventually. Thanks for the advice. Oli

Thanks Jonathan for your reply. You have answered the questions which were bothering me, i suppose now i just have to give it a go. I am going to have to mix the loads unfortunately, but i will aim to keep oak separate and kiln that separately. Cheers Oli

Hello everyone, this is my first thread on a forum but I have been an interested reader for a while. I am looking to find some information out about the process and running of a Kiln, there have been some very good threads on the building of kilns on here, but I would like to find a bit more on the process. I started a small saw mill in Jersey in the Channel Islands about a year ago and slowly have been expanding to cover different requirements. My latest project is the running of a new kiln which I am building. I am going to be running a Swedish Kiln System sold by Logosol called a Sauno Kiln. My questions if you can help me are: Does it matter about kilning different species of timber at the same time? I understand the some wood need air drying for 6 month to a year before hand like oak. During the drying process you do not want to open the kiln, so my question is knowing when the timber inside is down to the right MC, understand you have to use a Relative Humidity & Temperate sensor on the inside, but for example what RH would give you a 12% moisture content? The guidelines I have with the kiln recommend running it at 40c or lower for hardwoods, so my plan is around 38c which I picked up from a previous thread. Does it matter if you put planks in the kiln which have had their ends sealed, or should this be scraped off or cut off before kilning? Many Thanks for the help. Oli www.lepavtimber.co.uk