drying oak shrink wrapped on a pallet

[arborworks1]

I covered my entire stack, from about a foot off the ground.

 

[TegwynTwmffat]

Check out my video where I am stacking logs on a pallet , shrink wrapping them and creating louvre vents. Be prepared for the apocalypse!

 

[Hddnis]

That was some weird ****.

 

[Babaganoosh]

Old thread but I did this last year after seeing it on a few forums. I used oak and wrapped 2 pallets. I put them in a spot up high with full sun. The wood was ready in the fall. It was wrapped about 6 months. It got a full summer in the wrap. I measured temperatures inside the wrap as high as 160.

It worked for me, your mileage may vary.

 

[TegwynTwmffat]

Hey guys - that's great - weird is good right?

 

[Hddnis]

Not to me, I won't watch any more of your videos after that one.

 

[TegwynTwmffat]

OK fair enough, but just for my own learning curve ..... What did you not like about it? Was it the yellow robot reading the news or the references to the forthcoming apocalypse or the stacking of the wood or the music?

Thanks for your feedback.

 

[zogger]

Check out my video where I am stacking logs on a pallet , shrink wrapping them and creating louvre vents. Be prepared for the apocalypse!

How does the moisture get out?

 

[Babaganoosh]

How does the moisture get out?

2 ways. One is that when it condenses and collects on the walls of the shrink wrap it runs down the sides and onto the ground. The other is thru vents. I cut some small vents at the top corners of mine and I lost a few degrees in temperature but my humidity went down inside the wrap. I can't say how much difference it made but there was a lot less moisture inside.

If you were able to keep the shrink wrap off the wood it would run down the sides even better.

 

[Hddnis]

Noise (music) and robot. Seemed pointless and annoying.

 

[TegwynTwmffat]

Noise (music) and robot. Seemed pointless and annoying.

OK thanks.

 

[TegwynTwmffat]

2 ways. One is that when it condenses and collects on the walls of the shrink wrap it runs down the sides and onto the ground. The other is thru vents. I cut some small vents at the top corners of mine and I lost a few degrees in temperature but my humidity went down inside the wrap. I can't say how much difference it made but there was a lot less moisture inside.

If you were able to keep the shrink wrap off the wood it would run down the sides even better.

When I first put it together the wrap went wet with condensation so I created louvre vents on the sides of the stack by inserting logs under the wrap. Once this was done the condensation disappeared and I concluded that the ventilation was working well.

 

[Babaganoosh]

I think vents at the top work best. It will draw air in the bottom and exhaust it out the top.

 

[TegwynTwmffat]

I think vents at the top work best. It will draw air in the bottom and exhaust it out the top.

OK but how to stop the rain getting in?

 

[Babaganoosh]

I made them on the corners. Like an inch from the top. I didn't cut the top open.

 

[mohick]

OH! but do any of you have your< tinker toy moisture meter > to tell if it is really dry, or just playing to be dry ?????

 

[quotedraven]

why use plastic seems like a big waste of time

 

[TegwynTwmffat]

why use plastic seems like a big waste of time

Because it's quick to use, it's cheap, it's translucent so gets a greenhouse effect, it's extremely strong and lightweight, it stops the stack falling down - prevents accidents, it can be recycled to make LDPE, it has no odour, it adheres to itself, it comes on convenient rolls, etc. etc. Oh .... And it works!

 

[quotedraven]

Because it's quick to use, it's cheap, it's translucent so gets a greenhouse effect, it's extremely strong and lightweight, it stops the stack falling down - prevents accidents, it can be recycled to make LDPE, it has no odour, it adheres to itself, it comes on convenient rolls, etc. etc. Oh .... And it works!

Well hell I thought it had odor.