Air drying some walnut slabs

busenitzcww · June 03, 2019, 10:31:41 PM

Nothing like that feeling of getting your wood stacked and under a roof.
Do you guys spray walnut with bora care? I've got a bunch of ash coming up that I want to treat but wondering if I should have done my walnut too? Other species? I have some bur oak, locust, coffee bean, mulberry,and hedge. Can you spray it good enough after it's stickered if you see bug action? Should have thought this out before I moved all these 3' x10' slabs

doc henderson · June 03, 2019, 10:43:50 PM

very nice. dark, but very nice!!!

YellowHammer · June 03, 2019, 10:48:01 PM

I don't spray my walnut, bug don't seem to like it much. I once had termites build a mud tunnel over some walnut to get to some oak.

WDH · June 04, 2019, 09:06:35 AM

I don't spray walnut either. PPB's will get in walnut sapwood though. I have had that happen more than once.

scsmith42 · June 04, 2019, 09:58:57 PM

Ditto Danny and Robert's advice. If you spray it, don't use Bora-care on green lumber. Use Timber instead (cheaper). Bora-care is best for dry lumber.

If you do spray it, typically you only need to spray the bark and sapwood.

firefighter ontheside · June 06, 2019, 04:48:25 PM

Interesting info here. I've been spraying everything , but maybe I will not spray walnut, at least not the heartwood.

doc henderson · June 06, 2019, 05:04:46 PM

just picked up 1.5 pounds of tim bor today from the pest guys. plan to make a gallon in a sprayer. any other tips.

firefighter ontheside · June 06, 2019, 07:05:11 PM

Use hot water to help it dissolve.

GeneWengert-WoodDoc · June 06, 2019, 07:24:10 PM

It will be important to cut and then fit together almost right away, as it is not uncommon to have the logs warp and twist as they dry and then the t&g will not align.

123maxbars · June 07, 2019, 11:20:46 PM

Nice timber,

Marshall7199 · July 22, 2019, 10:24:38 PM

Good looking slabs. not to be too nosey but what is the white material under the concrete blocks?

DWyatt · July 23, 2019, 08:56:11 AM

Looks like limestone screenings/sand to me.

K-Guy · July 23, 2019, 10:34:29 AM

@Marshall7199

It is that beautiful Kansas oceanfront beach sand. :D ;D

YellowHammer · July 23, 2019, 12:25:18 PM

Looks like a spilled bag of grits.

busenitzcww · July 23, 2019, 02:33:13 PM

Quote from: Marshall7199 on July 22, 2019, 10:24:38 PM
Good looking slabs. not to be too nosey but what is the white material under the concrete blocks?

Thanks! It's just limestone screenings from the local quarry. I'm kinda wishing I'd had just poured concrete and then I wouldn't of had to level all by bases, or at least been really close. I started putting cinder blocks down and then shimming a 2x6 on top of that for my pallets.