What Uses Can Freshly Cut Wood,eg Oak,be Put To Without The Need For Drying?
Can I use it for all outdoor uses eg fencing,garden furniture,gates,outdoor furniture etc.
I am trying to set up a timber importing business but cannot afford to wait to have the timber dried.
Sorry, but you’ll find that the market for green lumber is rather limited, unless you plan on brokering logs to mills.
Also, I think you’ll find that most outdoor furniture, that is made of wood, was made of kiln dried wood.
Good luck…
remember Green Oak will contract- warp- crack during drying
Maybe it will be ok for fence posts-
Green oak is used for traditional roofing because as it drys it contracts and will really lock the a A frame in place ! could make a interesting deck too….
You can also sell it to carpenters, who will season it , the price you will get for green timber is a fraction of seasoned timber
You will get less warping and cracking air drying timber than with a cilm- the only reason timber is cilm dried is because of speed
You know the reason why freshly cut wood could not be used for furnitures of any kind? When the freshly cut wood becomes a part of a furniture, the joints which were tightly fitting together becomes loose when the wood dries because it shrunk. So, common sense tells us that usage which does not require sensitive jointings are possible. And other structure where shrinkage of the wood won’t affect the value thereof could be built with your freshly cut wood. Anyway if you sell it “as is” there are people who will still buy it.
Will not happen sorry, to import or export wood, shrubs, and most all products, it needs to be cured. The curing process kills the bugs in wood so that your not shipping them all over creation. now the government is even enforcing this from state to state imports.
You could use it for fence posts but not anywhere shrinkage or warping would be a problem such as furniture or gates. Hard wood shrinks and moves less than the softwoods while drying but still would be a disaster where ever you have fitted parts.
Another thing to consider is green lumber weighs more, so it’s going to cost more to ship, unload, and use versus dry lumber.
I believe that green oak has been used to build things for fire protection fence post you could definatly use it for as well Good Luck on your business
if you look at logs stored at a logging mill you will see them spraying water over them
this is to keep them from cracking before they saw them
remove the bark then store them it will keep the log from rotting