pilot-werx
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I cheated and built a kiln...
Drying Firewood
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tawilson
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I have a few sheets of plexiglass laying around and was thinking about putting a solar kiln together for next summer.
300UGUY
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I worked with a old greek guy that scavanged pallets and plallet sticks - pieces of wood put between layers of castings - the castings went out as engine parts, so the sticks - 2x2 by 4 ft were trash otherwise. He took enough home every year to heat his house. Btw, in Michigan, our humidity is seldom below 30%. So wood doesn't get that dry here.
Sutol
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Needs to be dry or it will soot up your chimney and you will get tar / creosote stuff as a residue.
I have swept my chimney once in four years and got less than a quarter of a bucket of soot from it and the chimney is 30+ feet high.
I do burn mostly old pallet wood though and it has no sap at all in it and it is always dry.
I worked for Freightliner and use to get the Oak blocking they use to transport the trucks.
I like to split my wood in the bush and leave the bark there if posible, it cuts down on the creosote load in the wood. In my area, the best wood is Larch or anouther name for it is tamarack. Fir is OK that is what I am burning this year and next. Pine is OK for a wood stove, it burns a lot faster than fir of larch.
I cut standing dead, and it is stacked for at least a year.
I like to split my wood in the bush and leave the bark there if posible, it cuts down on the creosote load in the wood. In my area, the best wood is Larch or anouther name for it is tamarack. Fir is OK that is what I am burning this year and next. Pine is OK for a wood stove, it burns a lot faster than fir of larch.
I cut standing dead, and it is stacked for at least a year.
Short Game
Veteran Member
I burn red alder here in the coastal hills. It is far superior when burned the second year after bucking and spitting.
The talk of getting cheated on green wood I sell half rank to people who got cords of green wood. They talk my dry wood and burn it to get the fire hot enough to dry and burn the green they got shafted with. Across the highway from me the saw mill drops them off 12 ton of logs $275.00 dollars a load they saw and split it throw it in the back of a Ranger p/u truck level for $35.00 it's as green as it can be. People are buying it up as fast as they can haul it. I got a ranger bed made into a trailer. I threw fire wood in it out of a measuring rack and it held just a little over a half rank. I am sorry my buddy just corrected me on the price they get $45.00 he said on Craigs list it is down to $25.00 for a big truck full. I guess if you got a line of talk you can sell what ever. I have shut my big kiln down can get the volume of wood to operate it can afford to sell for there prices and won't sell green. I just dry half ranks and bundled firewood and wait for the customers. I am down to 2 stores now. A store cut me off last week he said he has a fellow selling it to him for a $1.00 a bundle wrapped and delivered to his store. The price of firewood don't make since. I am glad I got a good pension and made good money in before to ride on. There was a 164 venders in this area I called 11 venders to buy wood and 9 of them were out of business. Later
Delaware Devil
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You take and toss the wood in the truck and the trailer that will change the amount. You will have a lot smaller amount later
turnkey4099
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To be pedantic: Nope, he will have the same amount but in a smaller space. From the pics I would say he is close to correct on the amount. There is an accepted volume for the space a cord of wood "loose thrown" occupies - 180 cu ft IIANM.
Harry K
