{"id":6471,"date":"2020-04-04T08:53:38","date_gmt":"2020-04-04T15:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/?p=6471"},"modified":"2020-04-04T08:53:38","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T15:53:38","slug":"diy-lumber-to-firewood-i-made-a-big-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/diy-lumber-to-firewood-i-made-a-big-mistake\/","title":{"rendered":"DIY Lumber to Firewood: I made a big mistake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>\n<div class=videowrapper><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p31YEgblZmg\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve been using my Alaskan mill to create a lot of my own lumber from trees that fell down or are dying. My neighbor had a California madrone that was dying and needed to be taken down. It was a nice size, so I slabbed it up with my chainsaw. This was a difficult process on a hot summer day; the madrone&#8217;s sap really gummed up my chainsaw rip chain, and I had to constantly clean it.  I had some big slabs that I put in my DIY kiln and held them at about 90-100F for a week or so. Relatively low heat with the de-humidifier running to remove some of the moisture and accelerate the drying process. A lot of the smaller slabs (about 1 to 1.5&#8243; thick) would not fit in the kiln, so I air dried them in my garage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fast forward to about a month ago when I started working the wood. I discovered that they immediately were infected by the Western Ash Borer as soon as I had slabbed it up. Check out <a href=\"https:\/\/ask.extension.org\/questions\/485888\">https:\/\/ask.extension.org\/questions\/485888<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.extension.oregonstate.edu\/sites\/catalog\/files\/project\/pdf\/ec1619.pdf\">https:\/\/catalog.extension.oregonstate.edu\/sites\/catalog\/files\/project\/pdf\/ec1619.pdf <\/a>for more information on this insect. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most the wood is destroyed. I managed to cut around some of the infected areas and get a few small pieces of lumber out, but the process is time consuming for such a small gain. It kept us warm for about a week ;)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Equipment<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2R9FpdV\">Alaskan Mill<\/a><\/li><li>Chainsaw &#8211; Stihl &#8230;.oh I forget which model, but it has a 36&#8243; blade.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been using my Alaskan mill to create a lot of my own lumber from trees that fell down or are dying. My neighbor had a California madrone that was dying and needed to be&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/diy-lumber-to-firewood-i-made-a-big-mistake\/\">[read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[110,111,73],"class_list":["post-6471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-woodworking","tag-alaskan-mill","tag-chainsaw","tag-woodworking"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Title-lumber-to-firewood.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8zn47-1Gn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6471"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6474,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6471\/revisions\/6474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}