Anyone have Beech wood flooring?

American Beech is slightly softer than hard maple and white oak, and very slightly harder than red oak. It is used for a lot of things in Europe, including work benches and kitchen counters. Either European Beech is more stable, or they have a way of keeping it flat. A number of places (even Ikea) offer beech counter tops; I'm thinking of using it in our new house. It has a little more interesting grain than plain maple. If I had a significant amount of it on our property, I'd at least try it to see if I could cure it flat. I'm hoping to use our red oaks, as a number have to come down, and the rest are dying from drought stress anyway.

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A kiln is not a hot box.
Its a device that can create, maintain and vary a temp and humidity and at the same time have a typical air flow through the stack of around 400fpm
Drying lumber is all about the rate of moisture lost per day in the wood. Each wood has its own schedule of rate of moisture content it can loose per day.

And yeow! what I could do with a metal tank 10'dia.

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You think an old oil field tank could be used to build a kiln?

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