Moisture Meters for Testing Logs

A firewood moisture meter is perhaps the most important stove tool for helping you to ensure that you get the most out of your stove. Your firewood moisture meter can help you make sure that you are getting well seasoned wood.
There are unscrupulous traders out there who will try and pass freshly cut timber as seasoned and suitable for woodburning stoves. 

Your firewood moisture meter will help to confirm that their wood is indeed well seasoned and let you gauge exactly how well seasoned it is.

The first you will know of unseasoned timber may well be when you notice that your woodburning stove isn't giving out any heat and that the window is getting tarred up. Burning unseasoned wood will tar up your chimney (increasing the risk of a chimney fire) as well as reducing the life of your woodburning stove and chimney.

Burning unseasoned wood is inefficient and results in high levels of particulates, which is bad for health. If you see a smokey chimney there is a good chance someone is burning damp firewood

In terms of how much heat you get out of your wood stove the moisture content of your firewood is probably the single most important thing to consider, which is why a firewood moisture checker is so important.