The invention relates to a wood drying device and drying method, in particular to a side draught fan type cabin wood drying device and drying method. In order to solve the problems that an existing wood drying production device and method waste energy, pollute environment and prolong the wood production machining period, imported wood has the large medical inspection and insect removing workloads, and an existing wood transportation ship cannot achieve the function of wood drying in the remote transportation way, the device comprises a cabin, a cabin-interior equipment bearing frame, a drying device humidity adjusting air exchange system, a wood drying medium forced circulating system, a heat exchanger system, a drying medium state monitoring sensor system and a dried wood water containing rate monitoring sensor system. The method comprises the steps of wood stacking, cabin cover closing, wood drying, drying degree detection of the wood, and drying medium state adjusting according to a detection result. The device and method are used for drying and insect removal treatment in the wood transportation process.