Hmm, I do not think that doing my firewood at a local lumber mill will be of much benefit to me. Closest one is 14 miles. I'm betting they would not even give it a single thought unless I was willing to pay them the same amount of money they would make off of all the wood they would be cramming into one of their kiln bays.
The grocery stores around here charge about $4-6 a bundle for firewood and it is not even a cubic foot of wood. That comes out to $768 for a cord of wood if you bought it at the store in cubic foot shots.
I have only a few ideas to even make it worth while. But I also have been giving it thought that if a customer wants to save save save, I sell them my wood in spring, not fall. That way it has been sitting processed and stacked wherever they keep their wood until winter. That way they have their wood already and they know it will burn for the winter.
Yea, the other idea to consider besides bulk kiln drying in a solar kiln is maybe making a kiln setup on a trailer and kiln drying the load with waste wood by means of some sort of fire containment unit. Making the exhaust pipe long enough where it is 200 degrees (if thats whats required) at the wood and then exhausts out the top of the unit. But then again, I wonder how much of the wood would be covered with soot?
I know there is a few guys on here that do kiln dried wood. Where ya at?!