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Smallholding => Techniques and skills => Topic started by: Foobar on March 06, 2018, 02:46:51 pm

Title: Solar kiln for firewood
Post by: Foobar on March 06, 2018, 02:46:51 pm

Has anyone any experience of making/using solar kilns for drying firewood?


I have a load of seasoned but wet wood, and I have a load of spare IBC tanks (the cages have been used for seasoning logs) ... I keep looking at these tanks and thinking I must be able to use them for something useful - could act like mini greenhouses if I put some vents in? .... could I turn them into solar kilns? :)

Title: Re: Solar kiln for firewood
Post by: cloddopper on May 26, 2018, 10:20:09 am

Simply stack your logs   & cover with a breathable canvas they will season  well .
 If you put them in plastic non breathable boxes they will sweat & grow moulds etc
 I suppose you could cut the tank top & bottoms off to give a shallow three inch or so deep tray to invert them & put them on top of each log stack weighting them down against strong winds.