| From: Coco
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| Date: 01-Jul-16 |
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I live in nw Arkansas where our day time temps avg around 95. I am going to cut some white wood staves in the next week or two and was wondering if my garage or attic would get to hot and dry them to quick. Elm, hickory, hhb. Split staves with bark off.
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| From: PEARL DRUMS
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| Date: 01-Jul-16 |
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Too hot IMO. Stash them in a basement, or under your bed. Thats a great place to cure wood.
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| From: Jeff Durnell
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| Date: 01-Jul-16 |
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Attic, too hot for certain. A garage might be ok if it was part of the basement or well shaded and cooler.
Initially, for the first few weeks, they'll lose moisture fast on their own, and if you further accelerate it by exposing them to heat, air movement, sunlight, and such, they can check badly.
I'm struggling with finding a good place to store some osage I just cut. Not sure what to do at this point... they're laying in the driveway on the shaded side of my garage right now... still in log form... and I'm going for another big log tomorrow. LOL. Gotta git it when it's avaialable.
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| From: fdp
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| Date: 02-Jul-16 |
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Personally my FAVORITE method is to keep them outside for the first 10 days to 2 weeks. Put them somewhere will they be in the shade, and keep them covered so they won't get a lot of dew on them at night, or get rained on if it happens.
After that move them in the house, take at least one of them and start turning it in to a bow. You can have a dandy ready to hunt with this fall. No need to wait an extended period of time with whitewood.
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| From: Coco
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| Date: 02-Jul-16 |
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Thanks guys
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| From: Jeff Durnell
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| Date: 02-Jul-16 |
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Fdp, I've left wood outside too. Some osage logs I've left out for several months with no ill effect. Spraying them with an insecticide is a good idea. But, I won't do it with white woods. I especially won't cover them with something like plastic that holds moisture inside because I know a guy who did that with a pile of hickory staves and it ruined every one of them. They looked ok, but they had as much spring back as a ribbon of lead.
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| From: fdp
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| Date: 02-Jul-16 |
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Agreed about the cover Jeff. I actually have a set of permanent saw horse looking things that has a corrugated roof over it that I put my logs under.
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| From: George Tsoukalas
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| Date: 02-Jul-16 |
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My site has info. Jawge http://traditionalarchery101.com/
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