Re: Lumber Question

Posted by T Taylor on January 08, 2007 at 19:34:44 from (12.96.75.199):

In Reply to: Lumber Question posted by mitchp on January 07, 2007 at 16:03:47:

In the early 70s I had a large sycamore cut into lumber and I built a chicken house with the lumber , had no problem . I became intigued with the saw mill operation and bought a very used Belsaw sawmill. My farm is thick with a lot of sycamore and cottenwood and I decided to build a shop with this timber. Talked to one old sawmill guy , he said sycamore cottenwood lumber would be fine if used properly. Never use this lumber on the ground or expose it to the elements in the horizontal because it will tend to rot. He knew of a few barns that were covered with board and batten siding and the barns were at least a hundred years old with no paint on the outside. He told me rule of thumb was an 1/8 of board would wear off per 50 years! If you go to hammer a nail into the board make sure thats where you wnted it bedause you cannot pull the nail out, found this is very true. Put all my siding up green right off of the mill with little to no warpage. My Shop is pole barn construction,I did buy the trusses but perlins and gerts are all sycamore and siding is 50 50 cotton wood and sycamore . One person on this site spoke of his boards falling apart. This is a problem with both timbers it is called wind shake . It happens in the winter when the tree freezes and wind bows the tree back and forth causing the wood to fracture at the growth rings . If you cut the trees in early spring after a very cold windy winter the timber is more prone to wind shake. I cut most of my trees in the late fall. Sycamore and cotton wood are a very fine lumber for constuction.

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