Fast Drying Lumber Inside The House Without A Kiln

in #blog6 years ago

I cut some live edge slabs and want to use them within a month so I am fast drying them inside our home using a fan and stickers to allow air to flow between the boards.

I had cut some live edge slabs on my own lumber mill a while back and I want to give them out as gifts at the end of the year. But generally a live edge slab takes one year per inch of board thickness to dry properly. You can use a kiln to dry lumber faster but that is very expensive and takes up a lot of space.

I studied a lot online about kiln drying lumber and also how to dry lumber outside in nature. I also looked into drying lumber indoors. Nowhere could I find an article about drying lumber indoors from start to finish. Most articles I found told how to finish drying inside after slow drying outside for a year.


Fast-Dry-Lumber-Indoors.jpg

I also talked to a professional sawyer who gave me some tips. Back in the old days they cut green lumber and built homes with it. The old times have a lot of experience with many ways of drying lumber.

We heat our off grid tiny house with a wood stove so our humidity is very low in the living room. We have to keep a pot of water on the wood stove to add moisture into the air. So the living room is out of the question.

But we recently set up storage and my office in the spare bedroom. This room is not as warm as the living room and gets a lot of moisture from the bathroom. So I figured this is the perfect place to dry my lumber faster but without drying it too fast. Out in the living room the ends of the boards would split badly and the lumber would warp from drying too fast.

But out in the back room I think it will turn out nicely.

I have a fan blowing on the wood all night and then turn it off during the day. This keeps air moving over the wood all night but lets it rest at night. I am not sure if the resting is necessary but it is nicer to have it quiet and peaceful in the house during the day anyway so we shut it during the day.

The wood has been in there two weeks now and it is looking very good so far. It is a lot lighter than it was when I first brought it inside. Now this was already one year old when I opened it up on the lumber mill so it was no longer green. It just has a high moisture content from sitting outside.

The boards are nice and straight with no splitting on the ends so far. I think this is going to be a success. I will do a follow up video and article when it is finished in two more weeks.

You can watch the video here:

While you are over there please subscribe to my YouTube channel and follow our daily videos as we strive to become fully self sufficient and off the grid on a budget.

You can also join DIY Tube Video Community for freedom of speech and freedom from harassment.

DIY Tube offers fully free membership and instant earning of rewards. In the future it will be possible to exchange rewards for cash once we get our revenue sharing plan in place and start turning a profit. So join us today and let us grow together.

http://www.diytube.video

Sort:  

Hey, long time no see. Remember me? It is your old friend Honey Badger. Sorry for digging the hole in your front yard but I needed a new den. Since you did not call the welcome wagon, I had one of your cats for dinner. I was very hungry after all that digging. Will post again soon, your friend honey badger.

Hey, I have an idea for you Troy... Instead of throwing your pity parties in the SteemAbuse chat (where everyone already told you several times to take a hike) Why don't you apply for the Vet initiative. There is a FREE upvote bot in that community for veterans and active members of the armed forces world wide.

Here is a link: https://steemit.com/veterans/@shadow3scalpel/mission-statement-and-goals-for-shadow3scalpel

There are amazing people there... they use the right hand to salute, but hopefully that will not bother you too much.

they also promote posts from verified veterans and active members of the armed forces:
https://steemit.com/veterans/@guiltyparties/veterans-on-steem-daily-highlights---17-dec-2018

You should apply, I really mean it... after all you were a tank bullet loader right? Was that before or after you were the best tank driver in the army? Your words, not mine...

After all your accomplishments... I am sure you will be welcome as a hero...

Stop threatening my baby girl!!!

We all know what you are trying to do here with those replies of yours... I can tell you, you are wasting your time. They have been warned about you the same way Steem Abuse was warned about you... So all you do right now is looking even more like a lunatic than usual (hard to beat)

No one threatened your child in anyway shape or form and you, using her in this fashion is disgusting. You have no honor and no integrity. I am sad for the little one.

I repeat. Stop threatening my family and child!!!

I repeat, your baiting is not and will not work... Get over it Troy, people are not taking your defense, they can easily see through your scams and your whining...

So, do your broken record act as much as you want... NOBODY cares... geez are you ever slow to understand. Your lies have no takers anymore.

i've been trying to help him but he wont tell us who is threatening his family and he refuses to contact the local sheriff. i even tried giving him their contact info.

oscoda county sheriff.png

maybe the Veterans Crisis Line can help troy after all he does claim to be a Veteran...

Veterans-Crisis-Line-650x390.jpg

When are you going to give us another look at your electricity meter, Troy?

It's been about a year since you last showed it, so how much have you used?

Prove it!

Stop threatening my 14 month old baby!!!

You call your electricity meter your baby? Is there something wrong with you?

If you're striving to become off-grid on a budget, why not prove it, by showing us how little grid power you have used in the past year? It will only take a few minutes to nip outside and film a short clip of that dial spinning round and round like a child's top.

So, how much of that lovely reliable grid power have you used?

Prove it!!!

I'm sure your 120,000 subscribers are dying to know... All 2,000 of them that actually bother to watch your videos... That must be the lowest subscriber to views ratio on YouTube... I wonder why?

Stop threatening my family and baby!!!!!

why do you say "my family and baby" it appears to everyone that you don't consider your baby part of your family when you say it that way. hope you get help from the proper authorities though if these threats are real.

From all that I have read, does this person even have a wife and baby? Reading through the blogs they seem to be mentioned as after thoughts and not really being part of his life sharing in what he does. Maybe he is divorced or separated? I personally can't imagine living a life as the way this blogger describes. Honesty, those living in the ghetto are living better and I mean that in all seriousness. If he is losing his mind I do hope he finds the help he needs.

im sorry troy but ive gone through all your blogs here and haven't seen any threats to your family. can you please direct me to where they can be found so i can better assist you in reporting them to your county sheriff?

oscoda county sheriff.png

Stop threatening my 14 month old child

so are you saying people are standing there in front of you threatening your daughter or are you claiming your daughter is online and being threatened?

or do you mean you were reported for possible child endangerment by several people fearing the safety of your daughter?

choose your words wisely because you wouldn't want to falsely accuse someone or libel anyone and risk getting sued.

Please stop threatening my daughter

who is threatening your child? where can these threats be found?

Stop being racist and threatening my child!!

who is being racist? can you show where these racist comments are found?
who is threatening your child? can you show where these threats are found?

Stop being racist and threatening my child

Stop threatening my little girl!!!

if someone is threatening your child i highly suggest you call the police 911 right away! if you would like assistance i would be happy to call on your behalf.

Stop threatening my little girl

Stop threatening my child. Stop being racist to my child!!

who is doing that? why is your 14 month old daughter on the internet? where is the evidence someone is threatening her?

Stop threatening my child

Troy, stop lying and ebegging. How are your t shirt sales going? Who is threatening your child?

Stop threatening my family!!

Mmm mould and extra condensation. No wonder Mel and Michelle only visit you and no longer live at Dumpstead Acres

Stop threatening my family and baby!!!!!

who is threatening your family? why wont you report it to the police? here is there number and they told me they are willing to help you.

oscoda county sheriff.png

timcat asked me to tell you hello and inform you that he is waiting for your retraction of the youtube copyright claims against his channel.

Stop threatening my 14 month old daughter

Stop threatening my 14 month old daughter

why do you falsely accuse me of flagging you repeatedly and upvoting comments you have flagged when clearly this has not happened?

i have only flagged one blog of yours for wrongful shooting of a deer which is my lawful opinion.

i have upvoted comments and blogs from my friends that are not posted here on any of your blogs and had nothing for the most part to do with you. im allowed to upvote whomever i wish for whatever reason i so choose. specially on their own blogs.

the 3 or 4 comments i did upvote on your combined blogs were not greyed out by you at the time and were not belligerent or mean or crude by any means.

Stop threatening my 14 month old baby

Stop threatening my 14 month old baby

i have a degree in construction and never heard of such thing. are you sure you are understanding the processing correctly?

Stop threatening my 14 month old child

Stop threatening my 14 month old child

So you didn’t really make a “kiln”,
you’re just drying slabs of wood by using a fan blowing air with a fan.

Considering you say you’re only running the fan at night,
I will safely assume it’s plugged into and running from your ON GRID power.

We all know you say you can only run your crypto-mining computer and charge your 5volt devices from your solar system ONLY when the sun is shinning.

Ergo, no battery capacity, ergo no Off grid solar running the house 24/7,
contrary to what you IMPLY in your videos and stories
including your disclaimer of being connected to the grid is a “back up”
and for “child protective services”.

So considering this room you now call your ‘kiln’ and ‘survival storage’ and ‘FEMA Food Storage’ and ‘DIY Tuub World Headquarters’ and ‘crypto-mining facility’ (but only when the sun is shinning)......
where do YOU sleep now?

You do realize this return to Steemit, DIY Tuub campaign,
with no daily YT videos that you promised to film your day as you go-
like back in the RV days
because you’re too busy “hunting”.....

is just a repeat of all the empty promises you failed to follow through on this time last year?

Read the title - yeah - no kiln. At least you got that part right.

All the rest is openly found on my videos.

The battery bank is below the solar panels.

A cryptocurrency mining rig burns 100s of watts constantly so I run it only when the sun is shining fully.

A fan uses a few watts and can run 24/7 on solar no problem. I dont even look at the battery power with just those small devices running these days long as we have good sun now and then.

It is none of your business where we sleep. Quite an odd and personal question I think. Intrusive. Ick.

fixedbydoc just boldly proclaimed (yesterday on steemit) how he did turn us into CPS for child endangerment and part of the complain was no power, no heat and so on and so on. So yeah, we keep the grid power as well as solar to prove we have plenty of everything although we do not have to use it.

Yeah, hunting is a big part of homesteading so I am out there more and more. Have an appointment this morning or I would be out.

Note: for those waiting for me to leave the house, Melanie will be here and she knows how to protect herself. So no, the property will not be empty when I am gone.

"Note: for those waiting for me to leave the house, Melanie will be here and she knows how to protect herself. So no, the property will not be empty when I am gone."

So does this mean you have a 'drama video' lined up of how Melanie was traumatized by a 'troll' attack whilst you were away?

Delete if you don't believe in the First Amendment.

ya troy will probably blame me or insinuate me as being there harassing her despite having no proof and never showing any video of mel giving her story etc...

Stop threatening my 14 month old baby

Stop threatening my 14 month old baby