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    Default Useful file on stacking green timber for seasoning

    I'm about to start creating artisan timber (or very expensive firewood) using a chainsaw rig I bought from Sven at Logosol in Springvale. I have a 50cm DBH red oak log that fell over on a friend's place in the Dandies, some spruce (I think; arborist didn't leave much to identify) in Upwey, some windthrow silver wattle and mountain ash in the Yarra Valley and some enormous pines on the block I've bought in Sth Gippsland.

    I found this file on stacking green wood to season on the NSW DPI WWW site. Thought it might be useful to others starting off.

    Perhaps some of the more experienced folk could comment on how would seasoned pine go as the stackers?

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    In the sort of stacks you will be contemplating seasoned pine of the appropriate dimension will be fine. Commercially seasoned hardwood is used because the stacks are built much higher and the weight can cause crushing of softwood.

    There are a few threads around on the forum identifying the way to go about stacking timber for air drying (it's the same for kiln drying). The biggest problem we have as millers of small quantities of timber is maintaining uniformity within the stack. Ideally the timber should all be the same size, same species and milled at the same time. In practice this is difficult for us to achieve.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bushmiller View Post
    MAI

    In the sort of stacks you will be contemplating seasoned pine of the appropriate dimension will be fine. Commercially seasoned hardwood is used because the stacks are built much higher and the weight can cause crushing of softwood.

    There are a few threads around on the forum identifying the way to go about stacking timber for air drying (it's the same for kiln drying). The biggest problem we have as millers of small quantities of timber is maintaining uniformity within the stack. Ideally the timber should all be the same size, same species and milled at the same time. In practice this is difficult for us to achieve.

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    Thanks for that, Paul.

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    Default Useful reference on building with green oak

    http://www.forestry.gov.uk/pdf/Green...nstruction.pdf

    Given I'll have some oak I thought I might have a crack at some vernacular architecture (AKA bush carpentry shedding).

    Those helpful fellows at the UK Forestry Commission have put together the linked file. It's long but there's some fascinating stuff in it about building with green oak.

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