I'm getting ready to have some soft maple cut -- I don't have a mill -- someone else is sawing. But I will sticker and air dry. I have some well-dried hackberry, but it has blue stain. Can I rip that up for stickers or will the stain in the hackberry make the maple more prone to stain? Thanks.
As long as your stickers are dry....you're fine IMO. :)
if your stickers are dry and used( stickered) properly you wont have any problems :D
You might want to enhance the air flow on red maple with a fan. This will help prevent gray stain in the maple.
Quote from: WDH on September 01, 2014, 09:42:29 PM
You might want to enhance the air flow on red maple with a fan. This will help prevent gray stain in the maple.
Excellent advice. I don't know if using stained, dry hackberry stickers subsequently causes stained lumber, but lack of airflow and high summer temps will. Red maple needs lots of airflow this time of year to prevent deep sticker stain. I use two 48 inch drum fans, side by side, blowing on my red maple stacks for a couple weeks. Saw, sticker and get the fans on the wood in as short a time as possible, especially this time of year. This much airflow would ruin other species, but it works exceptionally well for red maple.
I fought this problem for quite some time, and the big fans solved it completely.
YH
Any maple i saw , i stand up on the side of my pole bldg for a couple of days before stickering.
I used to sticker for 3 days and then re sticker moving the stickers a few inches after the surface dries.
both worked for me but the standing up is less handling unless you are sawing a lot of stock.
My stickers are little H beams in cross section..
PETE
Thanks for the advice, folks. This is silver maple and I will be drying it outside, covered on top but with all sides exposed. In Kansas, air flow shouldn't be a problem.