Seasoning mllled oak underwater

[SteveA]

I've not milled any oak myself, yet.

 

Have had a couple of friends mention how naughty oak can be whilst drying out.... twisting, shrinking, cracking, splitting, etc.

 

Was on a job a couple days ago and chatted with a farmer who mentioned some people keep milled oak dunked underwater for a while to help prevent those seasoning problems occurring.

 

I've not heard of this before.

Interesting idea - has anyone here tried it?

 

cheers, steve

[treequip]

When you season wood it dries and shrinks, splits and cracks appear its a volumetric change thing

[Wendelspanswick]

The farmer might have been talking about seasoning timber with PEG, Polyethylene Glycol is added to water to make a solution, the green timber is immersed in it and the PEG stabilises the timber to reduce shakes and warping.

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://owic.oregonstate.edu/sites/default/files/pubs/peg.pdf&ved=0ahUKEwiY-qWSuIXOAhWFF8AKHafoBWYQFggmMAA&usg=AFQjCNEKhOOoo4T2Rc8BWAEGCa4G1dhM6w

Edited July 21, 2016 by Wendelspanswick

[SteveA]

  Wendelspanswick said:

The farmer might have been talking about seasoning timber with PEG, Polyethylene Glycol is added to water to make a solution, the green timber is immersed in it and the PEG stabilises the timber to reduce shakes and warping.

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://owic.oregonstate.edu/sites/default/files/pubs/peg.pdf&ved=0ahUKEwiY-qWSuIXOAhWFF8AKHafoBWYQFggmMAA&usg=AFQjCNEKhOOoo4T2Rc8BWAEGCa4G1dhM6w

 

Could well be that, he was pretty vague about it.

I got the impression he was talking about dunking them in a pond for a while; in murky cow poo water (kind of thing).

 

Thanks for the link.... gonna read it proper.

cheers, steve

[gobbypunk]

Hi guys I read alot of history type books and a few of them mention the french seasoning oak in rivers fell the tree and place it in the river for a year , but I have never verified this but it sort of makes sense

cheers MARK

[Chippy]

Heard of it before, this is a good link

451. Water Seasoning

[gobbypunk]

Cool bit of reading same as the history books I read

[SteveA]

  Chippy said:

Heard of it before, this is a good link

451. Water Seasoning

 

That's great & helpful, thanks.

cheers, steve

[difflock]

Some excellent stuff in that link Chippy, thanks.

[Lazurus]

Surely that's what's happening on Axe men when Shelby and the others pull the logs out of the swamps..... the timber seems to fetch a premium. You would think he could afford a new shirt!