It's cold in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont. We heat with wood and it's not uncommon for our wood stove to be used 12 months a year. That means we burn between 9 to 12 cords of wood. All of our wood comes from our mountain and is processed by Mountain Man. He's perfected his system. He's made a special wood cutting station that takes advantage of gravity so he has less lifting to do. He then stacks the wood into pallets which hold 3/8ths of a cord and can be neatly lifted into our woodshed.

But there's still one problem. Premium firewood requires 9 months to a year to dry here. And Mountain Man has been thinking about speeding up the process by harnessing solar power. He's looked at lots of solar kilns for sale but they were very expensive and there were none in existence that fit his needs for holding his pallets. Hence, his prototype for a solar wood drying kiln was born. He worked on his design and then started building it.

Parts built and ready to assemble.

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Here it is before assembly.