Solar wood drying kiln

I got my hands on some tree parts locally that I want to use in a workbench later, but needed and cheap and easy way to speed up drying them.

Kiln Dry Lumber at Home: Kiln drying your own wood at home can be a great way to sustainably harvest the materials around you, and dry it fast enough to build furniture with. If furniture is made with wood that is too wet, it will continue to dry and crack, possibly ruining…

Solar kilns offer numerous advantages for hobbyists and professional woodworkers, including cost savings, simplicity, and eco-friendliness.

Photos and descriptions of small solar kilns. August 31, 2005

❧ Solar kiln - if you put a chimney up the back you will not need a fan.

Mobile Nyle dehumidification kiln

Pictures of Solar Kilns

An example of a fan-and-plastic-sheeting setup that forces air through the lumber stack. May 14, 2006

Why is Kiln-Dried Better Than Air-Dried? - Why is wood that has been kiln dried so much more stable than wood that has been air dried? Click here to subscribe to Woodworker's Journal and view this free article. #FreeArticle #WoodworkersJournal #Woodworking #KilnDried #Wood #AirDried #Kiln

An in depth article by Gene Wengert and Luiz Carlos Oliveira

Solar Kiln at Work

100% solar kiln l constructed to dry rough sawn lumber

Insights on using a dehumidifier kiln built from a shipping container. December 11, 2007

• Drying sawn timber • Agroforestry

Virginia Tech Solar Kiln | Sustainable Biomaterials | Virginia Tech

We constructed this nifty 8x8x12' passive-solar kiln. And boy does it work, not to mention save money! Better still, we developed a plan for our kiln so you can build one just like it.

Introducing our very first solar kiln. As you may know Architectural Justice acquires fallen trees that would otherwise be headed for landfills or be turned into mulch, and turns them into beautiful pieces of furniture. This is the first of three solar kilns that will be used to dry the wood that our furniture is crafted from. […]

peterrum's Project

The solar kiln is based on the well know Virginia Tech design, adapted for my own needs and materials I could find easily on local hardware stores. Mine is a small one, with a gross storage space inside of about 1.5 m in length, 0.85 m wide and 0.65 high (~5’ x 2.75’ x 2’ ).