If you have a firepit, try out a few splits on kindling. If it smokes for more than 10 mins, you’re probably getting a false reading and have wet wood. On the other hand, is this really oak? I was waiting for an ID first then we can figure out why its showing up as such a low MC. A fire test won’t reveal everything but can show how well the fire spreads. If the fire spreads over the entire splits easily and makes a great conflagration instead of centralizing in one spot and low flame, you could be fine...
Yep, burn a couple pieces & see how well & evenly they light up. It does look like White Oak of some flavor to me. Welcome BTW. Glad to have you here.
If it has not been mentioned, make sure you’re measuring moisture at room temp. Cold wood give artificially low readings.
Welcome to the forum Scooter.D This is just one more time when I have to question the MM and one more reason why I don't use them. Well, the real reason I don't use them is that don't need one to tell me when our wood is ready to burn. Besides, it has been a long time since we've burned wood that is less than 3 years in the stack and boy oh boy has that ever made a tremendous difference. Same thing goes with top covering. Now if that tree was dead or partially dead, then for sure the top part of the tree could easily be ready to burn.
Out of curiosity, does that moisture meter have multiple settings on it? Some do for reading different types of wood. You will get higher or lower readings based on the setting you have chosen. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I can easily get Oak to 15% in one year but that was dead when cut, I have some green Oak I cut this fall so in a year I can tell you how mine did.
