Ex sawmill worker
Hi Guy's very interesting thread . I spent a few year's or more working in sawmill's , doing all sort's of job's from the logyard to green mill , drymill , green chain , moulder operator , tallyman , dockerman , timber grader , bla bla bla , you get the drift . Anyway when we stacked timber off of the green chain onto stack's for drying , each layer was stickered with kiln dried 2x1's , stack's were about 6' wide and about 7'-8' high and roughly 20'-21' long , once the stack's were finished , they used to put length's of railway iron on top of the stack's to weigh them down , eventually they got smart and used massive concrete block's to weigh the stack's down , about 2 ton each , there was a vast improvement in timber quality with the concrete blocks , then they were stored in an open shed until ready for kiln drying . I personally got a bit slack a couple of year's back , I stacked some pine in my large fully enclosed shed , in winter , so I had lousy air circ and low temp's , then I used wet sticker's , I also left my log's too long before milling them , so I had blue stain already , anyway long story short , I ended up with some crap wood , blue stained (it was still usable) lot's of mold sticker mark's as well as mold from wet sticker's , at least it was straight . I should have stored the timber in a well ventilated shed , with dry sticker's and plenty of weight on the stack . A bloke should have known better eh . Cheer's MM
