It's dry though. The tree fell in midsummer and it has been getting beamed down on by the sun. Once it is split it will sit for a month or two before it is sent for sale. I will also be making some sort of kiln.
What kind of tree is it?
White oak.
I wouldn't buy it to burn this year. Maybe a year from now.
I already split up a piece of it last night in my moisture reader read 6%. The place where I keep my wood to dry the wood is laid out on top of a deck of pallets where the sun beams down on it so it will dry
Guess if your customers are happy with it (and become repeat buyers) that's all that matters.
Yep. Me too
Was it a dead standing White Oak tree? Then maybe you could be at 6% MC. If it's a live tree that fell a month ago, then I'd highly doubt your reading is real.
the stump was rotten and hollow. some of the wood wasn't green
I’m with you, Took down a 3 year old standing dead red oak a few months back. The top exploded when it hit the ground and the hinge broke so it didn’t go where it was planned. That sucker still read 18-22% moisture in the trunk. The outer 2” of it was very punky but it was still holding bark.
It is not rotten. It was live but moist. Not green.
I gotta call BS on that. There is NO way White Oak sitting for 1 or 2 months unsplit is at 6%. Split it would take over a year if not two to get that low.
Agreed.
the outside is 06%. But I cut a cookie out of it and it it read 30%. It will be a while.
