Need some advice

[MNMACHINIST]

Hello Everyone, I need some help. I am trying to get going on building a woodshed, and i am trying to scrounge materials as cheaply as possible. seeing the prices of 4x4 and 6x6 lumber made me cringe a little. i have alot of mature popple on my property, and a good friend of mine owns a small woodmizer bandmill. how quickly could i have usable posts for a woodshed (would a post have to dry and for how long?) just looking for some advice for now.

thanks.

 

[gemniii]

Unless you are making the member so it CANNOT move (warp, split, bend), or if it does move it doesn't matter the wood needs to be dry. I'd expect 4" to take at least 6 months to air dry in your neck of the earth.

Note that going prices for cutting wood are around $0.30 to $0.70 per board foot, that is when you truck the wood to them.

Lumber prices are climbing off the mud at the bottom of the creek, but slowly. Misssippi pine sawtimber stumpage (ton) is up around $30. Back in '04 it was at about $50. http://msucares.com/forestry/prices/reports/2005/1.pdf

You need to check at lumber yards and compare what it will cost for having it delivered versus all the processing.

 

[Marklambert61]

shed lumber

You can build with wet green wood if you like just understand it will move a little when it dries....

But its just a wood shed I dont think the firewood will mind....

Mark

 

[smokinj]

You can build with wet green wood if you like just understand it will move a little when it dries....

But its just a wood shed I dont think the firewood will mind....

Mark

Agree I would build with tulip poplar same day milled. If your building right it will be fine.

 

[SDB777]

Unless you are making the member so it CANNOT move (warp, split, bend), or if it does move it doesn't matter the wood needs to be dry. I'd expect 4" to take at least 6 months to air dry in your neck of the earth.

Note that going prices for cutting wood are around $0.30 to $0.70 per board foot, that is when you truck the wood to them.

Lumber prices are climbing off the mud at the bottom of the creek, but slowly. Misssippi pine sawtimber stumpage (ton) is up around $30. Back in '04 it was at about $50. http://msucares.com/forestry/prices/reports/2005/1.pdf

You need to check at lumber yards and compare what it will cost for having it delivered versus all the processing.

Would the bold reply in this post be for kiln drying? My experience says 1" = almost 1 year.......


Scott B

 

[discounthunter]

popple is a wet wood ,green cut. unless you absolutley have to build right now,cut them and let them lay 3-6months.or go to you local mill and see if they have some timbers already cut,most do.

 

[gemniii]

Would the bold reply in this post be for kiln drying? My experience says 1" = almost 1 year.......


Scott B

I've only done a little seed to tree to lumber to table, but after I cut some 2" plus thick about February last year and put it in my basement it was workable and seemed dry about October. That's why I wrote AT LEAST.

 

[discounthunter]

I've only done a little seed to tree to lumber to table, but after I cut some 2" plus thick about February last year and put it in my basement it was workable and seemed dry about October. That's why I wrote AT LEAST.

i agree,it all depends on whats being done with the wood and what type/when cut. i cut a lot of hobby wood and work most of it within six months,but its worked in stages to allow for drying.for construction i think it would be a bad choice to build with fresh cut green wood.

 

[john taliaferro]

Building kitchen cabinets with green wood no ,but a wood shed yes .