Check Moisture Readings for This Year's Wood

Some of the last stuff stacked, maple that was cut in November but didn't get split til April.

From the other end of the pile, probably maple too but split last year.


Same maple as first pic, from a cross stack.


Seems to be drying pretty well, you fellas think the stuff in the 23-24 range will be ready by Guy Fawkes?

 

Yeah thats pretty darn close there Grizzly Id go ahead and count on it being ready. Im assuming your aiming for 20%?

 

Give it all sun and not a drop of rain and you will be fine. Clear 6 mil plastic if you need to.

 

Good thing I am not actually planning on using that row til late feb (if it's a bad winter).

 

Who's Guy Fawkes?

 

Guy Fawkes (13 April 1570 – 31 January 1606), also known as Guido Fawkes, the name he adopted while fighting for the Spanish in the Low Countries, was a member of a group of provincial English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605.
Fawkes became synonymous with the Gunpowder Plot, the failure of which has been commemorated in Britain since 5 November 1605. His effigy is traditionally burned on a bonfire, commonly accompanied by a firework display.

 

Is that soft maple Grizzly ?

 

Silver, tree from my yard.

 

Silver is what I meant to say, my mind thought silver and my fingers typed soft...something like that. Silver drys pretty quick and it looked like silver. Didn't think it was sugar.

 

I figured that was what you mean, soft maple can be used for a few species so I wanted to be more definite

 

Well that tells the story. I have some similar maple and was hoping it would be a little dryer than 24%. I haven't checked it yet, but I bet my results would be pretty similar to yours. Oh well, that's why it pays to be ahead.

 

Which meter do you have there? Do you like it? My old Timber Check cheapie is begging to be retired.

 

$15 cheapy from Menards.

 

When using a meter don't forget to correct for temp of the wood and wood type if you want the reading to be accurate. Of course my take is it's firewood not building material so 25% on a meter is good to go imo.

 

There is a chart for correction since meters are calibrated at 70*. If you get a reading of 25% at 80*F the correction puts it at 23%. Not a big deal in my opinion but if it can help people get to the 20% "gold" standard I always see posted I'm all for helping them out.

Here are links to Species and Temp Corrections charts.
http://www.delmhorst.com/Documents/PDFs/Product-Support/Temperature-Correction-Table.pdf
http://www.delmhorst.com/Documents/...SG-chart---Species-List-together-May-2013.pdf

Also if someone was using the oven dried method they're checking total weight/mc of a split. Most times with a meter you see people taking the center reading and calling that the reading. If you have 17% near the ends and 25% in the middle the total moisture content is going to be close to what you want. Once again it doesn't really matter to me, just want to throw some points to consider out there.

I've been in the Dennis camp for years now, split it, stack it for a few years and burn it.

 

Ok, I don't get it. Looking at the first temp correction chart, moisture reading at 25% meets 80 degrees and shows 13, not 23? I assume temperature correct comes before species correction?