How long can u keep a oak log in a pond

[E.B.]

How long can u keep a oak log in a pond ???. I was given About 30 Water oaks and about a 100 Sweetgums and 50 junipers off of land that was being cleared. I'm going next week to buy my first sawmill [ lucas ] But i don't have a market for the lumber yet. So why i'm trying to figure that out :-\ I don't want to loose the logs. I was hoping to store them until I found a market and learn to saw lumber 8) Any advice would be very much appreciated.

                                                                                            EB

[Tom]

EB.
If you can get them into a fresh water pond without running into environmental organization conflicts, it is one of the best ways to store wood.  It isn't a perfect way, but the bugs can't get to the wood and most stains won't grow.  If Oxygen is kept from the wood, the logs might last forever. By this I mean buried deep in the earth.

You can do almost the same thing as submerging in a pond by sprinkling a stack of logs and keeping them wet.

[TexasTimbers]

You don't need to sink the juniper, and if you learn to cut on sweetgum successfully including drying, you will be able to process anything.

[jim king]

http://www.american.edu/TED/sunkwood.htm