The Wood in the Plastic Bubble

I read that years ago and never tried it. I figured it would take too much plastic and too long of a fence to try it with 15 cords of wood. It may be worth a shot if you have a fireplace and burn a 1/3 cord a year or something.

Try it and report back how it works out! ;-)

He's trying to make a solar kiln, but needs to allow moisture-laden air to vent up top.
Strange writing style with all the bizarrely quoted words, implying their std meaning is not intended. (e.g. "green", "dry")

And ... what's with the "endtimes" thing? Like you'd know when.

Yes i tried it with 8MM plastic from walmart. 30$ for a 30ftx20ft sheet.

Worked well the temp was often 10-30 degrees hotter that the outside temp. Max temp i saw was 158, but it was already 101 that day and a clear blue sky.

The wood did dry faster but much of it was still not ready to burn that year. Only the maple i had was ready.

Things i did notice though were

1. once it got cold the plastic became brittle and worthless.

2. it ripped easily

3. it got in the way during the winter months more than anything.

CTYank said:

He's trying to make a solar kiln, but needs to allow moisture-laden air to vent up top.
Strange writing style with all the bizarrely quoted words, implying their std meaning is not intended. (e.g. "green", "dry")

And ... what's with the "endtimes" thing? Like you'd know when.

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End times . . . 2012 . . . I thought everyone knew that . . . or maybe it was three months ago . . . I mean two months from now . . . I mean in 2060 . . .



From Wikipedia.org--

1844 - William Miller predicted that Christ would return between March 21, 1843 and March 21, 1844, then revised his prediction, claiming to have miscalculated Scripture, to October 22, 1844. The realization that the predictions were incorrect resulted in a Great Disappointment. Miller's theology gave rise to the Advent movement. The Baha'is believe that Christ did return as Miller predicted in 1844, with the advent of The Báb, and numerous Miller-like prophetic predictions from many religions are given in William Sears' book, Thief in The Night.[56]

1914[57], 1918[58], 1925[59], 1942[60] - Various dates predicted for the Rapture by the Jehovah's Witnesses.

1981 - Chuck Smith predicted that Jesus would probably return by 1981.[61]

1988 - Publication of 88 Reasons why the Rapture is in 1988, by Edgar C. Whisenant.

1989 - Publication of The final shout: Rapture report 1989, by Edgar Whisenant. This author made further predictions of the Rapture for 1992, 1995, and other years.

1992 - A Korean group, "Mission for the Coming Days", predicted October 28, 1992 as being the date of the Rapture.[62]

1993 - Seven years before the year 2000; the Rapture would have to start to allow for seven years of the Tribulation before the Return in 2000. Multiple predictions.

1994 - Pastor John Hinkle of Christ Church in Los Angeles predicted that the Rapture would occur on June 9, 1994. Radio evangelist Harold Camping predicted September 6, 1994.[63]

2011 - Harold Camping's revised prediction had May 21, 2011 as the date of the Rapture.[64][65] After this prediction proved inaccurate, he claimed that a non-visible "spiritual judgment" had taken place, and that the physical Rapture would occur on October 21, 2011.[66]

2060 - Sir Isaac Newton proposed, based upon his calculations using figures from the Book of Daniel, that the Apocalypse could happen no earlier than 2060.[67][68]

Definitely would heat things up but drying is what is needed so there has to be a way to remove the moisture. Perhaps leaving both ends open would work but as someone already has stated, it seems like it would be more bother than it is worth. I can just picture what that would be like after a big thunderstorm with heavy winds. Then there is the cold which would ruin the plastic. Also, he states stacking next to a fence is best but that is only for holding the plastic. Methinks it would still dry faster if stacked out in the sun and wind. Air circulation is the big key to drying firewood.

need to use gore-tex...allows water vapor to escape...and keeps the raindrops out. Who gots a whole bolt of gore-tex fabric laying around they wanna cut up and divy up between wood burners??

A study that I read showed that it was not faster than open air. The air in there is relatively stagnant, so there's little air current to carry away bulk moisture.

You probably dry down to a certain point pretty quickly, then stagnate. Or would it be the opposite... in reverse... oh I dunno.

It works but not in 4-6 weeks, more like 5 months.