Moisture Content of Firewood? Good Information

[Burnin Since 1989]

My goal is to take firewood from my outdoor stack and split it and check the moisture content to see if it's good to burn.


I split 4 pieces of oak at 2:05pm. The original splits were between 4 and 6 inches and 16 inches long.

The temp outside was 53 degrees and humidity 51% and cloudy all day. Low temp this morning was 35 and 65% humidity. Since I was making kindling, I made little ones out of big ones. Brought them inside and the air temp was 68 and humidity was 43% inside the house. .

I tested the kindling and the IR showed 60.2 degrees for all the splits and MC shows a range of 11.6 and 16.8.

Funny that the IR is showing 60.2 degrees as it's no where near that warm nor has it been any where near that warm in the last 4-5 days. The wood is palleted and stacked two rows deep, 6 feet high and about 18 feet long. It has been only top covered with a brown tarp for the last 3-4 days. All of the original splits were taken from the top, just under the tarp. I didn't choose them that way, it's just what was easiest for me. I can IR the wood pile again to see what the numbers of other random pieces in the stack are temperature wise. Also planning to to do this same exercise but with the original splits only split once.

The next step is to let the kindling come up to temp in the house and see what the moisture content does.

On the thermometer, the top two are outside temps, The third one down is a utility room and the bottom one is inside the room.

Stay tuned, More to come!

 

[Dieselhead]

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[Burnin Since 1989]

If your sig didn’t give it away I would of guessed you were retired 🤣

good call