STICKERS?

[woodman58]

I have a couple of questions about stickers:
1) Does anyone buy their stickers?
2) What is the average price?
3) Who sells them?

I still don't have a saw mill but, I have a kiln to dry the lumber I have cut. I have to pay to have my stickers cut. It gets exspensive. They also are not exactly the same size. This is a problem asyou get higher in the stack causing some warped boards. Not bad but still a problem when trying to plane them. Your help is greatly appreciated.

[isawlogs]

 I don't understand ... If you are buying them, why not get them all the same size ???   :-\

[shtickhead]

^ ... or just plane them to match...

[beenthere]

Both stickers and boards need to be uniform in thickness.
Have you looked at ripping up some 2 com pine from the box store to make uniform stickers?

[woodman58]

I realize I can plane them. I just don't want to take the time to do it. They also don't last out in the weather. I would like to find a place to buy them. The only places I have found will only sell truck loads at a time. Thanks

[tyb525]

I do what beenthere suggested, rip cheap 3/4 pine strips 1" wide. I always put the 1" dimension vertically in the stack for better airflow.

[Kingcha]

What is the best length to cut them?   Is there a standard stack size must of you use or does it depend on what you are cutting.   I am thinking 4 foot to cover a stack of just less then. 

Thanks

[tyb525]

4' is just right to me, not too wide to stack the boards from one side, but wide enough to be stable when the stack gets taller.

[redbeard]

 

  spacing stickers can vary but most important is keeping your stickers lined up with first row. Picture shown is 16" and 2"-4" in from the ends. Also always have a sticker lined up with your 4x4 dunage.   Woodman have you looked at the composite drying stickers they sell? They are spend but you might be able to figure out a use charge and recoupe your initial cost .

[pineywoods]

Optimum length of stickers is best determined by the length of the forks on your skid steer/ loader. No matter how much I plan, it seems the stickered stacks are in the wrong place and have to be moved.  :-[

[rooster 58]

    I have a large mill 2 miles away from me. I can buy there broken fluted stickers for next to nothing. I just sort thru the bin to gat the ones that will give me at least a 42" stick ;)

[hackberry jake]

I have a few 8' wide stacks... Probably not optimal, but when I was stacking them I put the stickers down, then one board. The rest of he boards slid across the first board then I just turned it over next to the first one... Bad explanation job. I guess it depends on which side of the stack you are stacking from.

[beenthere]

Nothing that dictates that two short stickers (less than the pile width) can't be laid side by side to span the width of the pile.
A machine can't handle that, but a person stacking can handle short stickers easily.

redbeard

Also always have a sticker lined up with your 4x4 dunage.

That would be good, but not happening in the pic shown, it appears. ;)

[LarryRB]

If you are going to buy them I saw in  Menard bundles of 3/4 x1 1/2 x8'  selling for .97 each stick.  It not too bad of a price.

[red oaks lumber]

why pay for something you can get free?

[Schramm]

man just buy some cheap stock, joint it flat, plane it on the other side and run the pieces on a table saw.  Just make sure you run enough stock to accomidate the amount of stickers that you need.

[woodman58]

I do not have a saw mill, yet. Just a kiln. What I would like to know is where to buy composite stickers. Someplace that does not require a truck load.
I don't have the time between my full time job and my hobbies to cut them on a table saw. I did that once. It took about 4 hours to cut 500-600 stickers to get them the size I needed. My kiln holds 2 stacks, about 2000 BF.

[Delawhere Jack]

If you need to buy material for making stickers, you might consider 3/4 CDX plywood. Rip it into 12" wide pieces, then put those on the mill and rip stickers like you were edging boards. Cost should be close to #2 pine, but you'd have less waste. Then, going forward, save your scrap from edging boards for stickers.

[Bill_G]

One option is to go to sawmill auctions , great way to buy stickers cheap .

[terrifictimbersllc]

Home depot 8' 1x3's, rip them down the center and cut in half each gives 4 stickers uniform thickness 25-28cents each.  Dry, light colored and seldom break.

[tyb525]

Stand up a bunch of boards on the mill and cut them that way. You can get as many stickers per pass as you can fit on the mill. The rougher surface won't hurt anything.

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

I hate sawing stickers.....and that's all I got to say in this thread.  >:(

[tyb525]

Poston, is that because you saw all the nice logs you get into stickers?? And make lumber from them ugly trees??

[beenthere]

woodman58 said in the OP and repeated again today...........

I still don't have a saw mill but, I have a kiln to dry the lumber I have cut

So putting boards on a mill that he doesn't have..........won't work.  ;D

[tyb525]

I guess I meant, when he gets one :D