Me too. With the short summers here, Would be nice to throw a cord under clear plastic & see the difference. I say the now with snow on the ground & time on my hands, come Spring we'll see.
thinking out loud, 3/4" PVC conduit, make some hoops over the stack clear plastic cut in a couple vents
Dave, There are many factors that come in to play with location. I'll give you just mine for one. I live on 1/3 acre and about half of my back yard is firewood, "i choose to do this". Now, I know "easier said then done" aspect of this, but if I had to live at the mercy of a city ordinence or a law where I was at the mercy of the gas, oil or electric company, I would be the hell long gone from there! It's politics, as much as most don't want to admit it! As far as stacking and saving for a year or two, you got to get creative. Last year I helped a man who lives on a 60' x 100' lot gut his garage, we put skylights in his roof and eve vents so he could put his fire wood in it. He bought his house and it had a nice little Jotul. It was mearly for cosmetics, "summer home" but he now uses it for heat as a full time resident. He has a 16'x 20' deck and he fills that with wood also, "hope it doesn't collapse someday", I guess my point being, if you're going to have a burning lifestyle your going to have to adapt and overcome, "the old saying" if you don't like the heat get the hell out of the kitchen. It's tough for some to do what I said, But dam if I wouldn't try.
If I'm thinking right I don't think you want vents, my understanding is the hot air is supposed to pull out the moisture and it will run down the plastic and drip off. So I believe you want to keep that greenhouse affect and not vent it.
I get your points. Lots of politics, power grabbing stuff too. Gonna burn wood, gotta get it dry *** come hell or high water*** gotta get it dry. "Find a way"
Guess I saw the drawing & was thinking vents where arrows point to air Also thinking plastic on the ground under the pallets to prevent ground moisture
Now you're talking! A box in the basement full of wood with hot air drawn through the box into the living space. Dry the wood, heat and humidify the house. I see a plan taking shape.
Might work to finish off seasoning to the 15% needed. May be on to something Green wood In some locations The 3 months to dry wood with the fast drying wood /Humidifier, burn season is over LOL
Here's my solar kiln. Put it up in September and the heat inside the shelter was amazing. I know it will dry wood.
Hmm hadn't read that link, from the ones I saw before was thinking they didn't have a vent but maybe they should
If this study is to believed you can dry oak firewood very fast in a kiln. (And it was written before the days of the Internet so it absolutely positively has to be true). With 150 degree air and a few weeks of wood in the hopper you can easily cut/split and kiln dry as you go. The key would be to have enough dry wood on hand to start the process. http://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/documnts/fplrn/fplrn254.pdf
It's interesting how insignificant stacking is. Almost seems like a corn crib that you could feed with an elevator or dumped into and then wrapped in 6 mil plastic in a sunny spot might be the trick here.
I've showed this picture before of my "wood tent". It worked pretty well, until about two weeks ago when a big storm did a number on most of the plastic, which is just 6mil poly sheeting. I think the plastic choice will make a big difference, this stuff deteriorated enough after one summer of UV so that when it got cold it got very brittle and was no match for any wind. I've seen some clear plastic that has ribbons of some sort of reinforcement imbedded into it, maybe made specifically for greenhouses? I will not be going this route again, I enjoy splitting/stacking and have enough time/space to get way ahead and then into a shed. This was my way of trying to get the wood as dry as possible as quick as possible to overcome the starting from zero wood problem.
Still a problem if a guy can only store 1 cord but needs 5 there is no room to season it for 5 months
