Yellow Pine 9/4 or 2x6

Matrixxdg · August 11, 2020, 02:52:33 PM

Hi All,
Well the first load out my solar Kiln is coming up this weekend. I am removing the 9/4 yellow pine at 3.5 MC and leaving the red oak a few more weeks.

My question is should I leave it at 9/4 until I am ready to use it, or put it back on the mill and cut it down to 2x6 for a project in the fall?

Thanks,

MG

Southside · August 11, 2020, 04:59:02 PM

3.5% on your SYP or 13.5%? If the former, that's gonna give you issues with brittleness and splintering. Myself I would re-saw it when I was ready to use it in case it decides to move in the meantime. It might give you issues when resawing as well being dry.

YellowHammer · August 11, 2020, 10:56:52 PM

Ditto what Southside says.
I've never physically been able to get anything down to less than 6% in my solar kiln. What kind of moisture meter are you using?

When pine, as well as other wood, gets too dry, it gets noticeably less machinable, and if it does get that low, bringing it up in moisture content won't fix the problem. For example, when the cookies are burned, they are burned, and dunking them in water won't make them taste better. :D

Southside · August 12, 2020, 12:09:02 AM

Something wrong with a man who dunks his cookies in water..... :D Hammer, you need to get some of those other type of cow - you know the ones with the really big dangly things and then get to dunkin your cookies.. :D Speaking of which I have a big, glass, bottle in the fridge of our own, now to find the cookies. ;D

YellowHammer · August 12, 2020, 07:08:17 AM

Well, I was trying to cross over to be a parallel with kiln operators trying to rewet overdry wood by throwing water on their kiln floor. Who would throw a 5 gallon bucket of milk on the bottom of their kiln? That wouldn't make sense. :D :D

Old Greenhorn · August 12, 2020, 07:20:47 AM

I am surprised neither one of you suggested chickens.

WDH · August 12, 2020, 07:59:22 AM

Eating wood cookies does not work very well, either, with either water or milk.

alan gage · August 12, 2020, 09:31:00 AM

Quote from: WDH on August 12, 2020, 07:59:22 AM
Eating wood cookies does not work very well, either, with either water or milk.

I heard you're supposed to soak them in alcohol?
Alan

Ed_K · August 12, 2020, 10:34:47 AM

Hey milk is 87% water before the processor takes the milk out an sells you the water. ;D

YellowHammer · August 12, 2020, 12:21:43 PM

Now y'all may be in to something, burnt chocolate chip cookies and moonshine might be the ticket. 8)

With some BBQ chicken on the side. Maybe with some sole coleslaw and baked beans, and hey, I'm getting hungry.