08-04-2018, 07:02 PM
(08-04-2018, 05:48 PM)fredtoast Wrote: I helped my dad build their house the summer after my senior year in high school. The summer before that we had cut logs and had them sawmilled mostly into 2 X 4's to use for framing. We stacked them with strips to let air get around them, but when we came to use them the next year over half of them were too warped and twisted to use. That was a lot of wasted work. It would have been much cheaper to pay to get them kiln dried. But we thought that if you stacked them the weight would keep them from warping.
My uncle used to run a saw mill. He had a lot of craft workers who bought cedar off of him.
That is the hardest part! My first stack ended up being firewood lol. The kiln helps a lot, and with slow speed kilns it really helps to keep things straighter, but even then some wood just wants to twist. Black locust is the worst. Its almost too dense. A fresh cut board will usually spring right into bow. Natures pressure treated...
Cedar is an excellent wood to have an abundance of for sure. Its such an amazing wood, I only wish I had more cedar logs around. That gorgeous red wood grain is really hard to beat!
