Wood drying technique

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Solar wood drying kiln.

Take one honda civic hatchback that just happens to be painted black & put your wood in the hatchback, up on blocks off the floor only 1 row high & park your car in the sun.

At night, all the moisture that the sun has baked out of the wood condenses on the insides of your windshield & all your other glass & freezes, if its cold enough.

Get up 1/2 hour early ,in the morning, because it will take you that long to defrost all your frozen windows, but, at least your wood will be nice & dry.

This works well in the winter time, I am amazed how well. Any dark colored station wagon
suv, hatchback, mini van cargo van will work.

NOW I KNOW THIS SOUNDS LIKE A JOKE, BUT IT IS NOT. THIS REALLY WORKS.

Its funny ,too. I discovered it by complete accident. i had a bunch of pallets that I had just finished busting up with a sledgehammer for firewood & it started to rain.

I was 400 ft from my woodshed & getting wetter by the second, so I opened up my hatchback & put the wood in and locked the car.

Next day ,the car, with the wood in the back, was in the sun all day & I went out about 11 at nite to get a pack of smokes out of the glove box & i see the insides of the windows all frozen over, front,back,sides,
everywhere.

I figure that the moisture I see must have come from the wood, because the car never did that in the whole 9 years I owned it before.

So now , the back of my car is full of dry wood,ready to burn.

Before you say (bs) give it a try, if you happen to own the right kind of car.
 
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