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General Forestry => Drying and Processing => Topic started by: Lance in Ontario on December 13, 2008, 05:19:49 AM

Title: Drying thick pine question/dh4000
Post by: Lance in Ontario on December 13, 2008, 05:19:49 AM
I put about 2200 bdft of 9/4  white pine in my dh4000 about 2 weeks ago.It was reading around 20% mc when I first started. The kiln is reading 120f and 0% rh but the pine is still reading 14-16% mc after 2 weeks. Looks like there is no more moisture coming out of the boards.Shouldnt the rh in the kiln be higher until the moisture content of the board gets closer to 8% ?Should I turn the heat up some more?Or is this normal? My first time for thick pine.
Title: Re: Drying thick pine question/dh4000
Post by: beenthere on December 13, 2008, 11:31:26 AM
Puzzled here how you can get 0% rh...?  How do you measure it?

And how are you measuring mc of the wood?
Title: Re: Drying thick pine question/dh4000
Post by: Lance in Ontario on December 14, 2008, 04:11:04 AM
That is what the kiln controller is reading,last time I checked before it was reading zero it was around 10-12 rh.I am checking the load with a moisture meter
Title: Re: Drying thick pine question/dh4000
Post by: BBTom on December 14, 2008, 07:21:31 AM
I would do an oven dry test to check your meter reading.
Title: Re: Drying thick pine question/dh4000
Post by: Don_Lewis on December 15, 2008, 07:34:36 AM
Make sure you are properly correcting the moisture content reading for temperature and species. What kind of meter are you using?
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