solubor liquid

[samandothers]

Ambrosia beetles have a taste for pine? 

[caveman]

I assumed that was what was going on, Danny, but wanted to hear it from the expert (s).  I found a few of them crawling around on the stack but I dropped the one that I was going to photo.  Thank you all for the quick responses.

These slabs would have almost no value with the sapwood trimmed off.  The better ones will be sold on consignment after they are dried.  I've only sawed this wood a few times and don't particularly enjoy it but it saws easy.  There is some chemical in the wood that makes me cough and the sawdust is about the consistency of coleslaw, which makes them cleanup of the mill a bit of a hassle.

Wet, it is heavy, and dry it seems about the weight of dry cypress.  It is soft too but folks snap it up because of its chocolate brown color.  

[WDH]

Ambrosia beetles love dead, dying, and freshly felled pine.  They cannot overcome the defenses (pith and resin) from a living, healthy pine.  You cut one down though, in the summer, and it is an ambrosia beetle magnet. 

[kantuckid]

How effective is Solubor (which I have already) when sprayed on EWP logs with bark mostly still on? 

[Old Greenhorn]

It worked for me, bark or no bark. But I didn't apply it until the little buggers had gotten a foot hold. It shut them up though.

[Don P]

It won't hurt anything and will help with bugs on the bark. It won't get to the wood through the bark.

[WDH]

Rain will wash it off so you have to keep the logs out of the rain.