Over the years

[Den Socling]

I'm reviewing some past schedules. I want to write a perfect schedule for a customer who will be custom drying 16/4 Sinker Cypress. Looking through old schedules I have found some interesting notes. For example, I've dried White Pine and Poplar together with no problem. I've dried pine in 36 hours to under 10%. But here is one you may be interested in. I found a wet spot in 10/4 Black Walnut. My Wagner read 9.8% and my Delmhorst read 5.1% in the very same spot. For me, it's hard anymore to get excited about a wet spot. Cypress is a strange one. I found a note where one board read 11% and right next to that spot it read 27%!

[Magicman]

Sinker Cypress is subject to much more than the "normal" growth moisture.  There is absorbed moisture that enters through shake, limb rot as well as decayed portions.  I would expect your readings.

Has it air dried for a couple of years?

[Den Socling]

No. We always get it freshly cut from a company in Florida. I believe I read one time that the sinker Cypress was bacterially infected which made the MC very high and that made them sink.

[Magicman]

I have sawed much Sinker Cypress and probably all of it exhibited some of the symptoms that I described above.  I have had water to run out of logs that had been extracted for several years.  I do not see how you could have avoided air drying.  Sinker Cypress

[Den Socling]

Yes, you are right. I just meant that they saw, dead pack and ship it to us.

[GeneWengert-WoodDoc]

Bacteria do indeed cause these water pockets in cypress.

[Den Socling]

Finally got another load of this stuff behind me. It was 12,500 bf of 16/4 Sunken Cypress.


 

Correction: 12,500 pounds not bf.

[Den Socling]

And the truck driver was a Russian who said he was driving non-stop to Florida and then non-stop back up to Syracuse. Sure doesn't sound safe to me. He barely knew any English. When I asked him for the BOL, his reply was "sheeper, sheeper!"  :