Red Oak log storage

[thecfarm]

Probably someone adds alittle too. I saw 2 men pick up a 600 pound gator and walk to a pick up and put it in the back.  :

[ljmathias]

How do you saw a 600 pound gator?  Wouldn't think he'd hold still long enough for the first cut... and do you quarter saw or just through and through?

Lj

[Peter Drouin]

Up here we call it pond dry, the water pulls the sap out of the log and what you have is the most stable lumber you can get, After you dry it out.
When we had the hurricane in 38 the feds and mills around here had some rule about the logs had to be in the lake in 3 days. To save them. To cut later. All the ponds and lakes were full. And if you go to the big lake here and go to the bays the bottoms are full of logs. And no you can't get them. The state has a law [ leave them alone] Stupid :

[LaneC]

I have tried soaking slat traps (made for catching catfish) that were supposedly made from red oak in a pond. There are some kind of worms in there that destroyed the traps. They are planks of red oak about 3/16th of an inch thick by 2 inches wide and 5 feet long. These worms eat the wood to nothing. Maybe they are just down here in the hot South I do not know. This pond also has a steady stream of artesian water going to it 24/7/365. I do not know if that has something to do with it either.