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If you have heated moving air, essentially what you have going on down there in the basement is a drying kiln. Seems like it would work on any type wood. It's probably too dry for wood beyond what you might want to use for other than firewood, if getting a lot of cracking. or that the wood...

I'm getting tired of getting firewood for the shop. It is almost never ending, collecting it for next winter while burning it for this winter. :|:

It is true that wood left out in the rain will leach out some of what was inside. That is the way you dry Paulonia wood, a material often used in cabinets for it's fire and bug resistant qualities, left in the rain or put into a pond, after it is sawn. If you don't do that, the normally white...

I've heard that firewood that was left out in the rain for a period, then stacked under cover and dried as usual, will smoke less. Not a clue if there is any truth to it.

I suspect that air flow much better serves when you have drier air pushing the wetter air, like in a dehumidifier type kiln. If the wood is losing water, like in the bus, it is creating a higher humidity air environment. Best to replace that with drier air as much as is possible. If you come...

I like to have wood than isn't so completely seasoned to add to the mix. The slower burn it produces is nice sometimes, and maybe when you don't need a lot of heat.

The factor for heat when drying woodworking type wood is that it dries the air that passes through the wood. I notice that well seasoned and considered stable wood in the shop, will fluctuate in moisture content by a few points, depending on the time of year humidity. With firewood you could...

Heat and air movement are the basics for drying wood, whether using solar kilns that take a number of months to gently reduce moisture content, or the ovens that commercial enterprises use to get the moisture content down in a very short time period. I think the process that you have in mind...