A fews years ago I was given some freshly felled Oak trees which I had converted to planks. The planks have been stacked in my dry store and my garage and this weekend I decided to take a few boards and machine them for some final drying. I posted details back when I milled the logs, but I thought I would share some updates as several people asked for progress reports.
Here's a freshener.
There were 6 trees varying from 30 to 48 inches diameter. All were around 8ft long.
A Woodmizer did all the hard work.
The result was, errrr...... more wood than I expected. Initially I had a cutting list in mind, but as the stack grew we just cut whatever took our fancy.
I ended up with several stacks like this one. I stacked some in my garage, some in my dry store behind my workshop and some in open air with a top cover.
After a couple of days of effort I have a reasonable stack of rough dimensioned stock ready for some table building in the summer. I'm planning to stash some in the spare room but for now just put it on my timber rack in my workshop.
I took the boards from the stack in my dry store which is open ended and hence has very good ventilation. I wasn't at all selective and simply grabbed some from the top plus some thicker stuff for leg blanks. A quick poke about with the moisture meter was giving readings around 14-16%. The shavings coming off the planer and thicknesser felt pretty dry. As my planer can only handle 150mm boards I ripped down the wider planks and cut them in half length ways to make them easier to handle.
Although I haven't actually made anything I found it strangely satisfying and will probably do more in a few weeks.
Jon
Here's a freshener.
There were 6 trees varying from 30 to 48 inches diameter. All were around 8ft long.
A Woodmizer did all the hard work.
The result was, errrr...... more wood than I expected. Initially I had a cutting list in mind, but as the stack grew we just cut whatever took our fancy.
I ended up with several stacks like this one. I stacked some in my garage, some in my dry store behind my workshop and some in open air with a top cover.
After a couple of days of effort I have a reasonable stack of rough dimensioned stock ready for some table building in the summer. I'm planning to stash some in the spare room but for now just put it on my timber rack in my workshop.
I took the boards from the stack in my dry store which is open ended and hence has very good ventilation. I wasn't at all selective and simply grabbed some from the top plus some thicker stuff for leg blanks. A quick poke about with the moisture meter was giving readings around 14-16%. The shavings coming off the planer and thicknesser felt pretty dry. As my planer can only handle 150mm boards I ripped down the wider planks and cut them in half length ways to make them easier to handle.
Although I haven't actually made anything I found it strangely satisfying and will probably do more in a few weeks.
Jon
