Hello all,
I recently salvaged two logs from my golf course. My father has been the Superintendent of the course for 24 years, and may retire soon, so I wanted to make him a keepsake from some of the wood.
I had a local sawyer help with the milling yesterday afternoon. The yield was "roughly" 26 - 11" wide boards. The boards are all just about 9.66 ft. long. It was sawed at 4/4. By my calculations, that is over 200 bd. ft.
I had no stickers, and wanted to get it stacked quick. I used a friends radial arm saw on the way home with the wood to cross cut one of my 11" wide boards into 100 - 11" x 1" x 1" stickers.
I now have all this wood stacked in my one-car garage (near one cinderblock wall), using those green stickers from the same red maple.
I used 3 stickers per layer (one in the middle, and one about 3-5 inches in from each end) while stacking.
The bottom layer is sitting on the three stickers only giving my 1" clearance from the concrete slab.
I know this whole process is incorrect. I do not own a moisture meter. I am not sure what effects my HVAC has on my garage, but it is always an intermediate temperature between the outdoors and the inside (meaning it has some heating and cooling going on).
I am in no hurry to dry the wood, but don't want to ruin anything. I have access to a dehumidifier and have considered running it full-time in the garage with the wood for a while.
I have not painted the ends of the boards to prevent checking as I do not know if the paint lying around my house will work. I can buy something appropriate if there is a good recommendation.
I can upload pictures if necessary, but would like some rudimentary advice. I live in Winston-Salem and don't know of any good local resources for this sort of thing.
Thanks for any and all help,
Danny
I recently salvaged two logs from my golf course. My father has been the Superintendent of the course for 24 years, and may retire soon, so I wanted to make him a keepsake from some of the wood.
I had a local sawyer help with the milling yesterday afternoon. The yield was "roughly" 26 - 11" wide boards. The boards are all just about 9.66 ft. long. It was sawed at 4/4. By my calculations, that is over 200 bd. ft.
I had no stickers, and wanted to get it stacked quick. I used a friends radial arm saw on the way home with the wood to cross cut one of my 11" wide boards into 100 - 11" x 1" x 1" stickers.
I now have all this wood stacked in my one-car garage (near one cinderblock wall), using those green stickers from the same red maple.
I used 3 stickers per layer (one in the middle, and one about 3-5 inches in from each end) while stacking.
The bottom layer is sitting on the three stickers only giving my 1" clearance from the concrete slab.
I know this whole process is incorrect. I do not own a moisture meter. I am not sure what effects my HVAC has on my garage, but it is always an intermediate temperature between the outdoors and the inside (meaning it has some heating and cooling going on).
I am in no hurry to dry the wood, but don't want to ruin anything. I have access to a dehumidifier and have considered running it full-time in the garage with the wood for a while.
I have not painted the ends of the boards to prevent checking as I do not know if the paint lying around my house will work. I can buy something appropriate if there is a good recommendation.
I can upload pictures if necessary, but would like some rudimentary advice. I live in Winston-Salem and don't know of any good local resources for this sort of thing.
Thanks for any and all help,
Danny