My new toy

[jim king]

Our new shrink wrap machine has arrived and we are finishing installing it today.  With this we can package 20 linial feet of boards up to 6 inches wide per minete and the heat tunnel shrinks the plastic like a charm.  Someone asked a question the other day about plastic wrapping, yes I believe in it.

The boards stay dry, clean and look nice in the store.  Also we can hand seal packages with various sizes and run them thru the tunnel.

[sawguy21]

Nice.  ;D

[Burlkraft]

Okay Jim...Maybe I'm just stoopid....There ya go Jeff, I led with my chin.... :D :D :D

But if I remember right you do not kiln dry...right... ???  ???  ???

What happens to shrink wrapped boards after they get here...are you able to air dry enough to make it okay.. ??? ???

I would think your turning blocks would be just fine....

Maybe I missed something... : :

[jim king]

Burlkraft:

Our boards are kiln dried S4S and wrapped in shrink wrap.   Our turning blanks are shipped as wet as possible and vacum packed like bacon to prevent mold and checking.  This eliminates the need for waxing which no one likes.

Jim

[Burlkraft]

Oh..Thanks for clearin' that up......

Have you ever posted on your kiln.. ???  What do you have   ???  ???

[jim king]

Burlkraft:
The world may not be ready for this but here are some photos.  Homeland security would probably shut us down if we were up north.

These  are not my kilns but I worked closley with the owner and we built them from a USDA kiln guide from the 40¨s .  The boiler is from a steamship that sunk in the Amazon in the late 1800´s and we dug it out of the river bottom in the low water season and repiped it.  It runs at 55 pounds of pressure and about 300 degrees centigrade.  We recovered the fans and coils from a company that went out of business and had imported the unassembled  used kilns before going out of business.

We built the doors , vents etc..  We have no controls and all is touch and feel and luck but the wood has been coming out perfect and we are drying nothing but woods that have no available kiln schedules anyway.

I have the workings for 7 kilns including the doors on the ship from Houston now that we tore down in VT & and Mississippi a few weeks ago.  The walls here are made of local  hollow kilned brick 8 x 8 x 4 that cost $80 per 1000 delivered to the site and stuccoed with cement.

Here are a couple of photos of the kilns here and the ones coming from up north.

[TexasTimbers]

Radical. A boiler from a steamship sunk in the century before last. Ya gotta love it.

[flip]

That's just too cool

[sawmilllawyer]

Sunken ship's boiler, now that's what I would call resourceful, if not downright creative.

[Burlkraft]

Ya gotta love that...Thanks for the pics Jim   ;D ;D

It's amazing what you can do if ya put your mind to it. It's pretty much what I envisioned from seeing what else you have had to do there. Sometimes things are just too easy here. You have recycled and helped clean up the local environment too.... ;D ;D ;D

It looks like a good operation for what you have to work with.... ;) ;)

[jim king]

Burlkraft:   I thought you might like a couple of photos of the high tech end when it was freshly painted.