Drying Cherry Wood

When wood is cut from a living tree it is saturated with moisture.

Drying cherry wood. Thats me working with some rough cherry in my shop in the photo below. Rock elm black locust apple pear and other fruit woods and elms dry for at least 6 months. Robert mcguffy has headed up the wood drying sequence at the anderson tully companys vicksburg mississippi hardwood processing facility for decades. Question about a month ago i dropped an old cherry tree in the seattle area.

The outer layers of cherry firewood will start to deteriorate and become punky if the wood stays wet so a dry location for cherry is important if you plan on storing the wood for several years. Cherry which might take around 35 months. In this article i try my best to answer that question and let you understand just how complex can the topic of firewood drying time by species can be. The long drying firewood.

Wrapping the wood in sheets that are kept wet. The process can be hastened by using a kiln to dry the wood requiring only about three to four months but kiln drying wood is an expensive prospect. Bugs dont follow rules depending on the temperature humidity and how the slab is dried different issues are involved when trying to dry a slab in less than one year. I have not heard of such an approach to drying lumber.

Theres a lot of misunderstanding about air drying furniture wood too. Air drying cherry wood duration. Allowing lumber to passively sit at a given humidity level in order to obtain a desired emc air drying may be the simplest and least expensive method of seasoning wood but it is also the very slowest. Then with the chainsaw i cut several slabs 4 5.

First it keeps ground moisture from soaking into the bottom portion of the firewood stack and it also allows the wind to blow around the stack drying out the wood faster. How to dry wood for woodworking. Drying wood is important because big things go wrong if you dont do it right. Drying times can vary significantly depending upon wood species initial moisture level lumber thickness density ambient conditions and processing techniques.

The quick drying firewood. Air drying cherry slabs basic advice for a beginner on drying slabs. Pastor dan flynn cut down an old cherry tree from his yard and with the help of a friend turned that tree into lumber. Ive been a cabinetmaker since the mid 1980s and drying green lumber for furniture is something i do all the time.