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Started by Andy White, May 12, 2013, 06:24:44 PM

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Andy White

May 12, 2013, 06:24:44 PM
Cleaning up around the mill Saturday, and started edging some flitches from Friday. I ended up with 730- 1"x1- 1/4"x26" stickers of SYP. Do these need to be stickered, or left in the shop to dry? I will soon be sawing a lot of 5/4" red oak and be using these for that. Untill now have been using ripped 1x4 from HD.       Andy
Learning by day, aching by night, but loving every minute of it!! Running HM126 Woodland Mill, Stihl MS290, Homemade Log Arch, JD 5103/FEL and complete woodshop of American Delta tools.

millwright

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May 12, 2013, 06:36:59 PM
I usually will make a row, leaving a small space between each sticker, then put another row on top at a right angle to the previous one, they seem to dry good and stay straight.

customsawyer

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May 12, 2013, 06:49:31 PM
I built a pallet that I can pick up with my loader then make a row on top of that, then three stickers perpendicular then another layer of stickers and so on.
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bandmiller2

#3
May 13, 2013, 07:21:01 AM
Andy,never paid them much mind they seem to dry any way you stack them.Slight bends are no problem that size will quickly straighten with weight on them. Frank C.
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May 13, 2013, 07:46:26 AM
How long does a stack of stickers take to dry out? Couple of weeks?
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Chuck White

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May 13, 2013, 07:58:45 AM
A couple of weeks with good ventilation should do it!
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5quarter

#6
May 13, 2013, 09:18:03 AM
Usually I cut up the lower grade from the air dried stacks for stickers, but when I cut green stickers, I stack them just like regular lumber and air dry them outside. Frank is right...slight bends are ok. Uniform thickness though is crucial. 730 stickers is impressive, BTW.
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DeepWoods

#7
May 13, 2013, 06:19:40 PM
Not to hijack Andy's post, but I'm about to start cutting quite a bit of black ash and I know I don't have enough stickers.  But I do have several 3 x 8 pieces of aspen that has been dried for several years under cover.  If I resaw this into 1 x 1, will it make good stickers for my fresh sawn ash?
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Ianab

#8
May 13, 2013, 06:22:48 PM
The aspen should be fine.

Main thing is that it's dry.

Ian
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DeepWoods

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May 13, 2013, 06:27:57 PM
Thanks, I was thinking it would be.  I really didn't want to use anything green if I didn't have to. 
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