Hey, Breese!
Larry has given you the "straight and narrow" so to speak, already.
If you have power in the pole barn, you can use a simple room dehumidifier.
You would have to do this right now, before the temps drop too low. The
home type dehumidifiers are not meant to work at very low temps.
Work some poly under the stack, so that you won't be trying to dry the gound or trying to dry concrete. Enclose the stack with poly. Put the dehumidifier inside this tent and a box fan (they were on sale at many places for $9 recently as end-of-summer specials) to stir the air a bit. Hook a garden hose to the water output fitting on the dehumidifier, so you won't have to worry with dumping water every day. The "tent" of polyethylene must be fairly well sealed for this to work. Put the unit on a cheap timer and have it run every day during the warmest eight hours. Keep the circulating box fan on all the time. This works. I would expect you can get 'er done in three weeks.
I lucked out on a reconditioned dehumidifier one day at Big Lots. Even if you pay retail for yours, your total cost should be less that 1/3 of the cost to have it done at a kiln. Even a small window unit air conditioner can do it, if you drain the condensation outside of the tent, but it would do the work much slower. If the oncoming winter doesn't let you finish drying, you can always complete the process by moving the wood inside.
Larry's suggestion is also good, if you have room to bring wood inside. The dry winter
air will definitely do the job in New York. It probably would do it, even in Georgia. The indoor average relative humidity will be pretty low for you, even if you don't have a wood burning heater such as what Larry's neighbor had.
Phil L.
