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mitchp

01-07-2007 16:03:47




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Has anybody here had any experience workin' with sycamore lumber? i cut several big trees and was gonna get them sawed and build a shed out of the boards. It'll be in the dry with a tin roof over it but i've never worked with any sycamore, just wondering the good and bad of it.




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T Taylor

01-08-2007 19:34:44




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 Re: Lumber Question in reply to mitchp, 01-07-2007 16:03:47  
In the early 70s I had a large sycamore cut into lumber and I built a chicken house with the lumber , had no problem . I became intigued with the saw mill operation and bought a very used Belsaw sawmill. My farm is thick with a lot of sycamore and cottenwood and I decided to build a shop with this timber. Talked to one old sawmill guy , he said sycamore cottenwood lumber would be fine if used properly. Never use this lumber on the ground or expose it to the elements in the horizontal because it will tend to rot. He knew of a few barns that were covered with board and batten siding and the barns were at least a hundred years old with no paint on the outside. He told me rule of thumb was an 1/8 of board would wear off per 50 years! If you go to hammer a nail into the board make sure thats where you wnted it bedause you cannot pull the nail out, found this is very true. Put all my siding up green right off of the mill with little to no warpage. My Shop is pole barn construction,I did buy the trusses but perlins and gerts are all sycamore and siding is 50 50 cotton wood and sycamore . One person on this site spoke of his boards falling apart. This is a problem with both timbers it is called wind shake . It happens in the winter when the tree freezes and wind bows the tree back and forth causing the wood to fracture at the growth rings . If you cut the trees in early spring after a very cold windy winter the timber is more prone to wind shake. I cut most of my trees in the late fall. Sycamore and cotton wood are a very fine lumber for constuction.

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Dan hill

01-08-2007 05:18:38




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 Re: Lumber Question in reply to mitchp, 01-07-2007 16:03:47  
Never used sycamore but have used poplar boards over the years with no problem.My band mill shed has a poplar roof put on green with no problem.You cant saw lumber ,leave it out in the rain and get quality.



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2x4

01-07-2007 21:13:52




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 Re: Lumber Question in reply to mitchp, 01-07-2007 16:03:47  
you'll be sorry if you use it outside. Sawed a bunch once, great 1x10, 1x12 sheeting. It pulls apart upon air drying. Use to be big concentration yards where they made clothes-pins out of it but you know what happened to that market. It used to be used for drawer bottoms in chest-o-drawers but that market gave out also. So you can use small pieces of it indoors but thats it. I burnt the pile I sawed. Only thing worse is green elm.

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John S-B

01-07-2007 19:49:37




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 Re: Lumber Question in reply to mitchp, 01-07-2007 16:03:47  
I've not heard how well it works for structural use but I have seen where it looks beautiful for fine carpentry when it's quarter sawn. As with any wood make sure you dry it well and have some sealing wax or some latex paint to seal the ends when you stack it to dry so you don't get a lot of splitting.



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kyhayman

01-07-2007 16:58:40




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 Re: Lumber Question in reply to mitchp, 01-07-2007 16:03:47  
I've always heard that it makes the best roof sheeting (under tin) on the planet as it clamps a nail like no other.



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1936

01-07-2007 16:37:55




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 Re: Lumber Question in reply to mitchp, 01-07-2007 16:03:47  
Works well on interior work. MUST keep the wood dry. Same as cotton wood useage. Dry well before usage. Use nails on trust joint not the metal plate connectors. Fire chief has told me that when he is side a building fire and see the metal connector plates they back. The roof is coming down. Look at the teeth depth not much.



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