Drying firewood

[Dalmatian90]

You don't need heat to dry wood, the new kilns are using dehumidifiers instead.

Dehumidifiers also don't address the insect sanitation problem that's driving a lot of the kiln-dried firewood regulations.

Maybe a combination. It's certainly easier to achieve the high core temperatures with green wood (water conducts heat well), then maybe switch to a dehumidifier mode once the sanitation heat has been achieved.

(And re-reading some of the last posts, I think this is just what Billsfirewood is describing!)

 

[CRThomas]

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This year we had 1500 tons of firewood it is always been plenty. This year the light bills in this area jumped to $700.00 to $800.00 a month. People were burning a couple cord a year now they are burning about that much a month. We have close to a 100 plus firewood sellers and they calling me to buy firewood to resell. Firewood went down to $20.00 to $30.00 a rank. I am buying the $20.00 dollar stuff and stock piling it cause it wet for next year. I call it cull wood got bark dirt green needs dry and rolled in my roller clean it up. It's oak and hickory. I got a bunch of piss oak and sold it not do that agin. My customers come back on me like a mad dog. Later back to work