Thread: Storing timber

Keep it up off the ground by say 200mm.
If its dry stickers aren't necessary but they do help stabilise the stack and hold it together. 1/2" is good enough, just use whatever you have.

out of the elements well vented well supported flat and even, you can warp 1m3 overnite if incorrectly stacked. As Bob said but I'll go one further and say definitely use stickers (strips) of the same timber every 30cm along exactly one above the other and life should be ok.

Use Besser blocks as a base, say, every 500mm, level up the blocks so you have a nice LEVEL base.

I use 2"X3" Cypress Pine for the bottom strip. I then strip the pack out using ¾" square cypress stickers, they don't stain the timber if they get moisture on them.

Blocked stacked timber is asking for trouble in Aus. With just a little moisture white ants will have a nice new home.

At the moment I've got about 8-10 M³ in stacks at home & I've never had a problem.

Wooow... 8-10m3 personal stock is nice I am sure some members will have a little grin of envy. (unless their jaw just drops)


Thanks for the replies, I was planning to store the timer in the storage part of my shed but it is fairly small, the bulk would be stored against an internal wall in 2 piles, fairly high, probably up to 1800mm, the timber is 200mm wide.
Unfortunately the room is not very well ventilated but it does not get extremely hot, perhaps a few more degree that the outside temperature when sunny. It is not damp and otherwise fairly clean and with a concrete floor.

I dont really feel like wasting some of the timber doing strips, I have fair a bit of pine V-Joint off cuts about 12mm thick that I can cut square, would that be suitable ? Is staining the only problem using a different timber for strips ?

Thanks

I'd use the pine.

The pine will be fine
As long as the wood and the strips are both at least air dried it wont matter what they are.
The staining can be a problem when air drying green timber, thats when type / dryness of strips can be important.
The wood would 'probably' be OK flat stacked, but it will be safer stacked properly.

Cheers

Ian

Pine is OK as Jarrah is a dark coloured timber anyway.
What Ian said about drying green timber is absolutely correct. I'm pretty careful with a fresh sawn pack I'm stripping out

Maybe even get some of those cheap tie down straps from B and strap the pack up, placing using protecive coners, so at least it is held tight and if knocked will not fall over.

Another idea is to number the end of each board and do a stock list as you put it away so when you go to do a job, you can use your cutting list and stock list to get the boards out trying to aviod waste from using over size boards.