Thread: How high can I stack a relatively soft timber like deodar with stickers

I don't think the deodar I'm hoping to mill this weekend (if it's not raining; don't want to be slipping around a wet bit of the Dandies with a big Stihl and I suspect this conifer might get that blue fungus stain if it gets wet when it's not sealed and surface moisture isn't removed) will shrink a lot once cut. I think the tree might have been on the way out for a while - maybe from the drought - before it finally carked it. Then it stood for a year or so before falling over a year ago. It felt quite dry when I bucked it last weekend.

But I didn't have a moisture meter with me. Maybe the trunk is still a bit wet and there may be some stresses in the wood so I'll stack and sticker it for a while.

I'm really short of storage space so stacking it high would be good if possible. I was wondering how high a relatively soft timber like deodar can be stacked before the wood starts to show indentations from the stickers pressing under the weight of the wood above?