Had a friend and his wife stop by last night, from South Carolina, who are up here in CT for a vacation........I was demonstrating the Moisture Meter I use, and grabbed a piece of wood from the wood ring in the living room.
I stuck the pronges into the split side of the wedge in my hands, and all I got was dash marks on the reading face. That didn't make sense, so I set the pronges on the skin of my arm and got a typical reading such as I've gotten before when I did that. At least that proved that it wasn't the batteries,..............(phew).
This is sorta a continuation of another discussion we were having, about wood that is TOO dry, and yet it's not really. Obviously the wood moisture was below the measurable level of the meters default range, but what IS the "default" range? Zero Percent?
If ALL the splits of wood in my wood ring are THAT dry..............my first few fires should be rather ...........well.............they should eat the wood like butter!!
Makes me want to wet the wood!!
-Soupy1957
I stuck the pronges into the split side of the wedge in my hands, and all I got was dash marks on the reading face. That didn't make sense, so I set the pronges on the skin of my arm and got a typical reading such as I've gotten before when I did that. At least that proved that it wasn't the batteries,..............(phew).
This is sorta a continuation of another discussion we were having, about wood that is TOO dry, and yet it's not really. Obviously the wood moisture was below the measurable level of the meters default range, but what IS the "default" range? Zero Percent?
If ALL the splits of wood in my wood ring are THAT dry..............my first few fires should be rather ...........well.............they should eat the wood like butter!!
Makes me want to wet the wood!!
-Soupy1957
