The not enough moisture I agree with as some wood that was delivered in the past had some pieces that seemed dry rotted as they weighted nothing compared to normal wood and though dry low moisture were terrible burning. i just got a moisture meter in UPS today a General instruments MMD4E. I have learned a bunch playing with it this morning and the biggest is if you go by looks and feel you might be wrong. Also that checking the end grain very important as the slab side might be 14% and the end grain 25%. I am assuming it is because the water gets out by following the grain so the ends maybe a better indicator. Tomorrow sometime I should have a high quality probe thermometer for the stack as the Rutland one is very slow and i do not believe it anyway.