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CONSUME PINE 🌲🪚 (media.scored.co)
posted 1 year ago by ValuesLiberty on scored.co (+0 / -0 / +35Score on mirror )
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ValuesLiberty on scored.co
1 year ago 0 points (+0 / -0 ) 1 child
Sometimes I just use the wood green, which is fine for a lot of things. Houses used to be built with green wood. Board and Batten for example is to hide the cracks when the wood shrinks.

If I don't use it right away I stack it with wood between it (stickers they call it) and let it dry outside on a pallet with old metal sitting on top. On a few months it's below 20% moisture with a moisture meter and it's good for most things...
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rentfREEEE_since2016 on scored.co
1 year ago 0 points (+0 / -0 ) 1 child
OK. I found even pieces that I’ve left to dry and then I know I’ve been drying for at least 12 months still have a lot of movement.

That’s crazy that they used to build houses with Green wood. With the amount of twisting and cupping I’ve seen they must’ve been selecting better quarter sawn pieces or something because if it were anything like the garbage you find at big box Inc. Today you’d be six inches off the layout lines by end of the house build. Haha.
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ValuesLiberty on scored.co
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Well you know if you get the wood up green and you nail it down good it kind of holds it in place and you don't get so much cupping. And it also depends on the type of wood. I've got a few Bridges I made out of oak that was pretty green and only a couple boards have cupped out of dozens.

Maple cups pretty bad from my experience. The last pine I cut up didn't cup too bad
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