Firewood Kiln New Moisture Meter

[@shotlifffamilyfirewood]

Thanks for sharing this video with me. What are the high temps you are seeing in the kiln? Do you have a probe in the core of the wood at all? I will watch more videos on yours for sure.

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

This kiln is not really insulated but I have gotten it as high as 190 in the top. We don't probe our wood when my air meter says 16% in the kiln for about 2 days I know the woods done. In the dead of summer all the wood would be dry in about 5 days. In the fall or spring it takes about 7 days. In the winter everything in the top sections is done in seven or eight days. And everything that's in the bottom four foot of the building we run two cycles. One thing I can tell you is try to stay away from hickory red oak etc they are the hardest to kill and dry and why you need the probe. My kiln is not nearly as insulated as yours and it can take literally same day cut green walnut and fully dry it if split to a reasonable size in 5 to 7 days. As I said on your video I let my wood completely cool down most times I pull my test pieces out and let them cool to the outside air split them and test the interior. If you look at the bottom of my stove I have an air inlet from outside that goes into my damper through my stove and out my stove pipe that is where it pulls out the moisture and my door is not a good seal so it lets out a lot of moisture too. You need just a fan at one end and a hole at the other and after it heats up kick it on very low and it will pull out the moisture and speed up your drying Another thing I would tell you is find some old roofing metal and use it like you're using your cement board on the inside and out it will heat up and it will help also the moisture can drip off of it without issue. Lastly you want to optimize as much wood as you can so when you make your IBC bins heap your wood up or make pop on extenders that go almost to the top of your kiln. The hottest air is up there and you need to do as much wood as possible each kiln run in order to maximize your run. Maybe you put something down to separate this wood and do bundle wood on top of the IbC totes. It is good to test the inside of your wood especially if you're selling it as kiln dried or heat treated. We do not sell as that we are selling regular firewood but I cannot create enough firewood and get ahead so we do this to dry green firewood to sell. And don't let anyone tell you this cannot be absurdly profitable cuz it can.

[@nickstevens885]

I think soon you gonna born the house down

[@thefrugalhomestead7873]

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