Sealing end grain

[Big J]

Iv had no trouble with cherry up to yet haven't milled huge pieces tho.

Shendy ... just seal it will help a bit and hinder non.

 

Possibly just better quality trees. Even seemingly nice looking trees up here in Scotland are awful. Crappy climate I expect.

[shendy]

A bit here and there, but it's likely to do it anyway. You can have a much bigger effect milling early in winter, stacking correctly (sticks near the ends of boards, large, tall stacks to keep boards as flat as possible) and picking decent logs.

 

As a rule, I don't cut cherry any more. Horrible, twisty, bendy, splitty wood. Not worth the effort.

 

 

I generally only mill in the winter. It was all stacked and sticked.

Might try to get more weight on it.

[wills-mill]

I don't particularly bother with end sealing. It's so rare that someone wants the exact length of a board, and there's always wastage or a certain amount ignored on measuring and pricing, so on most timber it's not justified.

 

I certainly wouldn't be making a choice of sealant on colour, I've been to places where they will use any gloss paint they can lay their hands on- the yard ends up looking very pretty with different coloured pack ends.

 

One thing I do is to cover stack ends that are facing south, direct sun is brutal.

 

About 6 weeks ago I milled out and stacked a really big cherry, they are often very lively spiral grained feckers, sometimes it's obvious and sometimes not.

Anything lively and I tend to make sure that the boards are only half the tree width. I find it's not worth the grief to cut through-and-through just to end up with a load of cupped or heavily split boards.

 

(I was going to put some pics up, but they're on a memory card that I've managed to crack foolish boy)