230
people found this helpful, as of 2023
ranked #130,013 most helpful
out of 571,544,897 reviews
★★★★★
Excellent for checking firewood moisture
We've been having issues with our wood stove insert, and the Wife and I couldn't agree on the cause. At her insistence, I had already replaced the fire bricks, baffle board, fire blanket, cleaned the chimney ... and still no improvement. She just refused to believe me when I told her that the wood she ordered wasn't seasoned, but green. Ordered this ... stuck it into a few kiln dried logs and read 10% ... stuck it in our wood ... 30%!!!! Yep, green. Now if we order any wood I'll be poking it with this before they dump a single log off the truck.
Oh - it powers on quickly, is easy to adjust between wood and building lumber. A reading takes less than a second once you poke the prongs into a log/board what have you. I like that it also includes a "calibration" tool in the cap - if it reads off by more than .1% it can be replaced under the 1 year warranty.
January 2018 · Tools and Home Improvement · verified purchase