Today was a great day..

[tyb525]

Here's some pictures...

Since ya'll want to see me in a picture, here ya go...



And the stack of lumber after about 6 logs..

[Cedarman]

That was one fine stickering job tyb, you must have  a doctorate from the stickering and stacking school.

[pineywoods]

That sawdust do pile up don't it. You gonna need a sawdust blower. Unless you can pull a Tom Sawyer on little brother..

[tyb525]

Cedarman, thank you . The "trick" I use is to look straight down from above and line the sticker up with the ones below it. As you can see, it works pretty good, although it probably is a little slower than tossing them on there. I got pretty fast at it though.

The stack is 3 1/2' wide by the way, and as tall as I am (6')

piney, I see one of those in the near future . for now I use a snow/scoop shovels and scoop it into a wheelbarrow every few logs. It's no big deal, and the price is right (free).

Also, what do ya'll use for stickers and how do you make them?
I have a lot of scrap pallet lumber (1x4 mostly), most of it is some kind of pine. I take those, cut them to about 4 ft long, and rip them to 1" wide with a 20 tooth rip blade on the tablesaw. It doesn't really matter the thickness of the wood if you always put the 1" dimension vertically. I can make a bunch up pretty quickly.

I've been kinda leery about cutting them on the sawmill, I guess just because I don't like the rougher surface it leaves.

[Fla._Deadheader]

 Stand a few of them up, the 4" high, way, and run the sawmill blade through them. Make however many you have clamped, on every cut.

[tyb525]

FD, that would be the smart way to do it. 

[WDH]

Make sure your stickers are dry, otherwise you get might sticker stain that will not plane out of the subject lumber.

[tyb525]

I believe all of mine are. Most of the boards they're cut from have some kind of grade stamp on them that mentions they are kiln dried or heat-treated (whatever that means).

[PineNut]

I am lazy when it comes to stickers. Whenever I get a flitch that is not good enough to make lumber, it goes in a pile. I will peridocally take a stack of them edgewise on the mill and slide off 1” strips. The better strips go into a pile beside the mill and the trash goes into the slab pile.  The better strips are cut to length with the chain saw. Good ones are used for stickers and the rest go into scrap. It is quicker for me to cut three stickers and throw two of them away than to selectively cut the lumber into stickers

[brdmkr]

All right!  Great!  Here is yet another example of someone who stickers wood that is pretty to look at.  My piles ................ don't look that way.  Good job Ty.

[Dodgy Loner]

I was also going to congratulate you on the stickering job.  My piles don't look quit that nice, either

As far as cutting stickers, what I've found works best is to dry some 1" pine boards, then lay up 10 or 12 of them on the mill, side-by-side, and cut them 1" thick.  You can cut 100 stickers pretty quickly like that.  The rough surface makes no difference.

[Meadows Miller]

Gday

Its nice to see a pic of you Mate 
Awsome job on the stickering there Ty  it could take me weeks to get a greenhorn to be able to stack timber like that mate     

But Just a side note tho Mate    the spacing just looks a little wide for 1" boards tho i space H/wood at 1' for inch for a guide just cut a couple of shorts at 12" for (1" thick) 18" =(1 1/2thick) and 24" =(2"or thicker) and you can just use them on the first layer to get things even and and started off right as You dont seem to have any dramas keeping them in a vertical line Mate  be consistant with your spacing as it just might save some nasty supprises as it drys  I dont want you feeling like im getting on your back about it tho Mate 

You would have just about cut enough now to cover the cost of the mill once its dryed  just keep plugging away at it  and keep up the good work Mate 

Reguards Chris

[tyb525]

Chris, that's my downfall as I seem to space them too far apart sometimes. There are 7 stickers per layer, the boards are 10.5 ft long. 7/10.5=1' 6" ft spacing, minus about 2 inches on the ends, which mean the stickers would be a foot and a few inches apart. I try not to get that technical, it takes enough time to line them up vertically.

Chris, and everyone else, don't feel like you're getting on my back, I love learning new tricks and tips.