Boys at sawmill were busy.

[will8989]

And look what I got from it! Of course it is still wet and will take sometime to dry. The color and grain of the poplar is amazing. There’s more cedar to come. The log is white oak. You can see on the oak where the water was dripping from while it was in the back of the truck.

[NC Scroller]

Very nice haul.

[Rolf]

Lucky you!, I have no room for wood drying storage. I need to clear out some "STUFF"

[will8989]

We are storing it under Bruce’s work bench for now. It’s stacked, stickered and banded. I always make room for wood! 🤪

[Kim Stone]

Wow, nice haul. Love the colors. We just got done drying some poplar, and the walnut should be coming out next month sometime. But we are always looking on facebook or other places to get wood.

[will8989]

Where do you get your wood from that it needs to be dried? Rolf, I’ve been clearing stuff all week. First was my storage closet than today was my 16’ work table. Got the top done now have to do the shelves underneath. Yippee

[Kim Stone]

will8989, We made a drying kiln out of a plan we saw on youtube. We took a 6-Tier Commercial Grade Heavy Duty Steel Wire Shelving Unit that we got at lowes, wrapped it in 1 inch foam insulation board and put two heat bulbs in the bottom, we have holes at the top and bottom to let the moisture out. We can cover the holes at the top to slow the moisture,coming out of the wood, so that it does not crack. We had been doing this for about year and half and it has been working great for us. The box can get up to 120 degrees or more if we close the holes up. After the wood is dried, and if has bugs in it we dry it in our mini hot box that we made out of kitchen sink, that has a heat lamp in it. And we run that at 140 for 6 hours, that kills any bugs that might be in the wood. Photos to follow.

[will8989]

Thanks, Kim. I'll show that to my husband but since he has 2 surgeries coming up I doubt that will be on his to do list. The place we buy wood from air dries the wood for a year, than finishes with kiln drying.

[Kim Stone]

will8989 Here are the photos of the homemade kilns that we use. The first kiln is what we use, to dry the wood first. Then after that, it goes into the mini hot box to get heated up to 140 degrees to get rid of any bugs, that goes on for about 6 hours. 20230208_155336.jpg 20230208_155441.jpg 20230208_155321.jpg 20230208_155230.jpg 20230208_155300.jpg

[Rolf]

Great ideas! If only I had more room.

[KarlB]

Wow Kim that is an awesome box. (And what a clean shop too!) You also have a lot of wood. What else do you do with wood?

Karl

[Kim Stone]

Thanks Rolf. Hubby got the idea from you tube. And KarlB we both do wood turning, and the wood that you see behind, the kiln is from a estate auction. It was a online auction, and when we saw it, we thought it was a small load, 9 truck loads later. And we got 3 work table for free,becuase no one wanted them. And as for the shop, we try and keep it clean the best we can. But come this spring it will get a blow out. And we do have a Jet air filter system.

[NC Scroller]

I am so jealous. You really have your act together.

[Kim Stone]

Thanks NC Scroller, we try. There was alot of planning involved with this woodshop. It use to be my dad's welding/workshop, and it fell into disrepair, due to his illness. So, after hubby retire from the navy, we moved back home and started to fix up the garage. It is 30 x 30 garage, but we had to do alot of fixing up it has heat now. If anyone would want to see the before and after photos I will post them.