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[Oldpath05]

No, as in Nyles kilns,
Kiln Drying Systems | Nyle Systems | Brewer, Maine for making furniture grade lumber.
If you look hard enough you may find some cherry to saw, but nothing like what they have to the west of us. The first time that I worked in New York I marked wood in a nice cherry stand... it was on a bluff and the forester told me to see if I could find a way onto it. I did, and for two days was painting smiley faces on the trees. I don't know what the woodcutters thought...

I cant remember the last time I seen a cherry log, I think they are rare in ME.

With all the sawmill lumber talk that goes on here and there and have been on, I dont recall someone anyone making a kiln or have much discussion about it. A few years ago my neighbor up the road had a kiln but dont remember if it was air tight, was 15+ years since he showed it to me. That site shows over half dozen kilns, I thought a kiln was a kiln, not hardwood, softwood, conventional.......

 

[Jstpssng]

I cant remember the last time I seen a cherry log, I think they are rare in ME.

With all the sawmill lumber talk that goes on here and there and have been on, I dont recall someone anyone making a kiln or have much discussion about it. A few years ago my neighbor up the road had a kiln but dont remember if it was air tight, was 15+ years since he showed it to me.

They really don't need to be air tight, although you do want air circulating to wick the moisture away. You can do something simple like a solar kiln, or go all out like the big mills do. Or you can air dry the way it's always been done.
I have a few small cherry trees here, but they will never amount to anything.

We don't have the deep soil for them to grow in and they tend to get diseased. ​

I may be able to salvage a bolt from my lot to have sawn for butcher block material, but that's all.

We do sell a few occasionally though... I hope to send a few small logs from one of the lots I"m having cut this winter.

 

[hunt4570]

They really don't need to be air tight, although you do want air circulating to wick the moisture away. You can do something simple like a solar kiln, or go all out like the big mills do. Or you can air dry the way it's always been done.
I have a few small cherry trees here, but they will never amount to anything.

We don't have the deep soil for them to grow in and they tend to get diseased. ​

I may be able to salvage a bolt from my lot to have sawn for butcher block material, but that's all.

We do sell a few occasionally though... I hope to send a few small logs from one of the lots I"m having cut this winter.

The last cheery tree I downed all went to cooking wood, Still have a bunch of it.

 

[Jstpssng]

The last cheery tree I downed all went to cooking wood, Still have a bunch of it.

One thing about cherry; I have some small trees which died years ago yet are still standing. All of the limbs are long gone, the bark is flaking off and the sapwood is a bit punky; but inside it's dry, and as sound as a nut. Sometimes in summer I will cut one down for a bonfire, and it burns great.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

I've milled some NICE cherry, like this 20 footer going on the mill,

I got it out of my woods, and It made some fantastic lumber,

SR

 

[keony]

I cant remember the last time I seen a cherry log, I think they are rare in ME.

With all the sawmill lumber talk that goes on here and there and have been on, I dont recall someone anyone making a kiln or have much discussion about it. A few years ago my neighbor up the road had a kiln but dont remember if it was air tight, was 15+ years since he showed it to me. That site shows over half dozen kilns, I thought a kiln was a kiln, not hardwood, softwood, conventional.......

Oldpath, it is pretty easy to make a kiln for small production: build a box with sheets of insulation board, tape edges with silver tape, and place a small dehumidifier inside with drain outside, works great!

 

[mwemaxxowner]

We have a kiln at work and an air dry operation also. The air dry would be extremely easy to recreate at home. In a nutshell there is a wall of fans, the lumber is stacked with scrap wood slats creating an air space between each layer, and it is left in front of the fans.

I used to be the kiln operator, but I've never been involved in the air dry process. I don't know how long it takes, but it's many times faster than waiting on it to happen naturally.

Our heated dry kiln often takes pieces from local sawmills or customers and performs a dry service only for them and throws it in with a load of our Lowe's material. If there is a dry kiln close to you it might be worth asking about. We also offer treating service only for a few locals.

I run the treating plant and occasionally have TSO go into the cylinder and have to set it aside for the customer after treatment. I don't think we charge a great deal for those services.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

When air drying, you have to be carful with many species, on how fast you dry them that's why I never use fans.

I never use fans for that reason, of course in a building, it's a different story as you do have to have "some" air moving through the stack.

Drying too fast will give you warped/checked lumber and all kinds of other problems. Drying with no air movement = mold/blk. stain and other problems.

Air drying outside in a stack may be slower, but it's more fool proof too.

SR

 

[Oldpath05]

Oldpath, it is pretty easy to make a kiln for small production: build a box with sheets of insulation board, tape edges with silver tape, and place a small dehumidifier inside with drain outside, works great!View attachment 684810

If I was into woodworking I'd probably make a kiln, and a dehumidifier I can see would work great, I have one in my basement and at times it easily takes out two gallons of water in one day.

But if there was a cheap way to make pressure treated lumber I would get into that cause thats one of the down falls of trying to sell lumber, everyone I talk to,,,, well I would buy your 2x6s but I want pressure treated 2x6s for my deck or sand box...........

And since I have tape measure deficiency syndrome I better stay with steel working projects.........

 

[Oldpath05]

When air drying, you have to be carful with many species, on how fast you dry them that's why I never use fans.

I never use fans for that reason, of course in a building, it's a different story as you do have to have "some" air moving through the stack.

Drying too fast will give you warped/checked lumber and all kinds of other problems. Drying with no air movement = mold/blk. stain and other problems.

Air drying outside in a stack may be slower, but it's more fool proof too.

SR

And cheap to, just put a piece of tin roofing on top and some weight to hold it down..........