New Nyle dh4000 Help

[Burlkraft]

<grin>  I'd probably be sitting on a yacht somewhere sipping margaritas...
Scott

I thought that was where you just was........          

[TexasTimbers]

Mike - personally, I have never offended anyone on this forum. I never come come across other than how I intend, I never get misconstrued by anyone, and no one ever elects to take my meanings in the worst possible way.

However, I understand you mere mortals sometimes make mistakes and can be forgiven. Some folks get a little excitable late at night but don't sweat it.

Troublemakers like Smith and Burl on the other hand, there just isn't much hope for them.

[scsmith42]

Man, I'm busting a gut down here!

Steve, is that you I see sipping a brewski on the next boat over?

Kevin, you even spelled "Troublemakers" with a capital "T"!   

[Don_Lewis]

Hey calm down. I didn't get any trace of an "attitude." It is a legitimate question. If he had been told that the high end product he sent pictures of had been dried from green in a single load, then it make sense to ask why he can't do it. I really don't believe they did that, certainly not with much success.

Thanks for all the kudos about expertise but wood is wood and every tree is different and there is always someone who is doing something that doesn't makes sense until you dig into it. It almost always turns out to be explainable. I can't count how many calls we get with people reporting some neighbor doing what seems impossible and wanting to do the same. I think if I ran a kiln drying business and I had a evil heart, I would advise customers who decided to dry on their own to mix their Birdseye and Red Oak and chuckle.

[TexasTimbers]

I never detected an attitude from Mike either.

It is a good question as everyone starting out with a kiln wantds to know the answer to that almost immediately.

I would like to have a cheat sheet that showed what woods can and can't be mixed at what starting MC etc. there are too many variables for a cut-n-dry cheat sheet like that though I bet.

[Max sawdust]

First load should be something simple to dry.
The sweet spot in small scale kiln drying is to have a predry shed that works perfect,, then only dry 15%mc or less .
jim

So what is the perfect pre dry shed??

In my experience the words "fresh off the saw" and "kiln"  mean you better know what you are doing...have GREAT mentors or...be VERY lucky   Heck this time I can mess up air drying

Mike, I never got any "attitude" from you either.  Just good questions from man who spent hard earned money on a new expensive tool, that is very anxious to not destroy his first load of precious high end wood

I have been learning alot from this thread.
Max

[Jeff]

This is the first I had read this since I posted. I wanted to say I didn't post out of any sense of someone having an attitude, although I will in a heart beat. I posted to help a new member, that might not be in the know on who was giving him advice.  That's one of my jobs as the board policeman. . Actually my forum involvement goes a tad deeper then that Mike, so you may occasionally see unexpected stuff from me, but its only as part of the gig. 

Perceptions on an internet forum can be a hard read, and when you have several thousand guys with smashed fingers, blury eyes and sneezin sawdust on thier monitors, its an almost impossible thing to read. But I can tell you for the most part, here un-like many other places on the net, 99.9% of the time if you perceive towards the positive and good, you will be right on.