firewood kilns
Ok does anyone have one of these ?
http://cgi.ebay.com/Firewood-Drying...5|66:2|65:12|39:1|240:1318|301:0|293:7|294:50
Could elimate all of the bug isues in firewood
David
Its the typical opportunity cost question.
It will eliminate all the bugs but what are you willing to pay to obtain it.
If you read the advertisement in the ebay posting he is adding twenty foot kilns to the line of converted kilns he offers for sale.
A big kiln is ment more for the firewood marketer who will buy all his firewood cut to length and ready to dry.
He offers complete systems with a pressurised boiler and fans and heat exchangers.
I asked them a while back about a twenty foot kiln and they said they wer enot making them- now they will be-go figure.
The problem is payback time in either a good economy or especially in a bad one as with what we are experiencing now.
I will tell you what the lumber kiln people told me when I was looking into buying a kiln.
They said and I quote: all you want is a forced draft kiln to dry the wood with heated air!!!!!!!! and you do not need all the equipment you need to dry quality lumber.
the other problem is air circulation as time is money and either the wood is thrown into steel bins or stacked=more labor.
Lumber is dried quickly simply due to the fact that there is an air space between each and every piece of lumber to allow for air circulation in the wood pile.
The only way to keep bugs out is to bag the firewood and seal it air tight with either a super sack with a plastic liner loade with moth balls with a tied top or an open mouth plastic bag that is heat sealed such as is offered by Gish Lumber
You can stack a lot of firewood in a holzhouzen round piles and cover it with a high quality tarpaulin for a semi truck which is what I am doing whenever the weather finally behaves.
There is a company in the carolinas that offers a complete insulated kiln delivered to you concrete slab. all you need to do is add a heat source and it is ready to go to work with an existing outdoor furnace.
leon
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