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Thread: Sealing Ends

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    Default 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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    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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    Default endsealer

    Caltex has a timber end sealer

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    BP produce one as well. It is all we use to end seal our plantation Eucalypts while they sit in the log yard.
    Hooroo.
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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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    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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    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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    I use Lanotec Timber Seal, all natural and Australian made.

    Ross

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