I've got two things to say:

1. Visit a planer mill sometime, and look what happens when kiln dried wood
jams up versus air dried ...kiln dried explodes while air dried splits and
splinters. Kiln drying damages the wood in a way that doesn't reduce it's
load rating, but impacts how it fails in a big way. It's brittle.

2. Buy a stick of air dried wood (or dry your own) and one of kiln dried.
Lay them on a sawhorse outside for a month. Take a look. The kiln dried
will be all warpy as heck while the air dried will have only warped a
little.

I think that kiln dried was developed so you could get homes built faster,
not having to wait for the building code's moisture limit to happen
naturally (you can't legally dry wall until the moisture content is low
enough). It really has no other good use if you ask me.

Brian
(In Oregon ...land of wood products)


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Can anyone shed light on the pros and cons of either?