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Thread: Sealing Ends
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27th April 2005, 04:51 AM #1New Member
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Sealing Ends
After cutting slabs out of a trunk and stacking it to season do I neeed to seal the ends to stop splitting/cracking?
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27th April 2005, 07:10 AM #2SENIOR MEMBER
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Yes, definitely - painting them is OK. Timber end sealer (kind of a latex mix) works very well though. Trend Timbers carry it.
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27th April 2005, 08:29 AM #3GOLD MEMBER
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endsealer
Caltex has a timber end sealer
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27th April 2005, 09:34 AM #4
BP produce one as well. It is all we use to end seal our plantation Eucalypts while they sit in the log yard.
Hooroo.
regards, Trevor
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28th April 2005, 05:16 PM #5Hewer of wood
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Seal the end grain and say 5-7 cm up the slab.
Watch closely for cracking along the slab in the first few days and weeks and seal anything that's opening up.
It's no guarantee either.Cheers, Ern
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28th April 2005, 07:34 PM #6
PHTS, you don't say if the logs were green or dry, but either way as a minimum seal as rsser said. I use several coats of left-over oil based house paint.
Russell (aka Mulgabill)
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28th April 2005, 10:28 PM #7
Styrofoam melted in thinner is an option.
Any thing with sharp teeth eats meat.
Most powertools have sharp teeth.
People are made of meat.
Abrasives can be just as dangerous as a blade.....and 10 times more painfull.
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30th April 2005, 09:14 AM #8SENIOR MEMBER
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I use Lanotec Timber Seal, all natural and Australian made.
Ross