Any Ideas?

[woodbloke]

Have just returned from my annual hols - this year touring Switzerland. Saw lots of very pretty wooden houses like this one in Gstad:

Every other village seemed to have a sawmill of one sort or another, though I did baulk slightly at paying about £70ish for a pair of hand carved salad servers, exquisite though they were.
Here's the question though - on the way back I saw a wood yard with a huge pile of logs, not yet converted, which were being continually wetted by jets of water to keep them deliberately soaked; as we passed they looked black against the other converted timber. I can only assume they were maybe being kept wet for rotary conversion into material for plywood, but am not sure as I have never seen this sort of thing before. Any ideas ? - Rob

 

[Pecker]

It is a control measure http://www.woodweb.com/knowledge_base/K ... lling.html

However a study by a an american institute has recently found that logs kept under these condityions contain more "stain" then chemically sprayed or naturall aired logs. This stain is most often the blue stain found in sdoftwoods, but covers a multitude of different fungi.

mark

 

[woodbloke]

Mark - that explains it, many thanks - Rob