Wood Gloat.... Maybe?? #1: Lumber Bought at Auction

Hi Scott,
Hope you don’t have to burn it. How about pesticide and live with the worm holes. Great buy at 5 bucks.
Jack

-- Jack Keefe Shediac NB Canada

great haul , and for $5 bucks !

just fill the holes ,
you can make some nice ’ antiques ’ with it ?

-- david - only thru kindness can this world be whole . If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure. Dan Quayle

Still a good deal for $5

If you can salvage any of it …......it’s a gimme for 5 bucks.

-- Doug, New Mexico.......the only stupid question is one that is never asked!........don't fix it, if it ain't broke!

A great deal! Congrats

-- Karen - a little bit of stupid goes a long way

The holes in the photo although not 100% sure without something to scale does not look like powder post beetle damage. Since I own a sawmill I do see some PPB damage, the hole they make are very very small.
Along the lines of a 26 pt period in Windows Notepad the damage you have looks like some type of wood borer. I have found that wood borers love cherry but once it drys down they tend to lose interest. What you do with the wood is up to you I just thought you would like to know.

Thanks for the suggestions on saving the piece of oak.

I can live with the worm holes. These just add a classic look to the project. But I did have some concerns about bringing powder post beetles into the house. They are nastier than termites in my opinion. The best way to get rid of them is through kiln drying but that it not an option due to the distance I would have to go to find a kiln and it is only a single stick of lumber. And I am sure that if I cut it up and tried to bake it in our oven, which could work very similar to a kiln, “The Boss” would have a few words to say about that!! There are some battles that are simply not worth fighting. :)

I may try to mill it up and see what it looks like rather than letting it go for firewood if I can figure out some way to heat it to kill the wood borers. But for now I am going to leave it at the far end of my lot until I get a chance to work on it with my bandsaw.

-- Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful- Joshua Marine

How about “boiling” your bowls os spindles? That would get rid of any worms. I think.
Good deal for 5 bucks!

-- Jamsie

Scott you are now a close 3rd….very nice score and only $5 or just on 10 cents a board foot… can’t complain bout that..

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i would say get rid of the worms and use the wood those worm holes will look neat on something. great find!

-- Got Wood?

For $5 bucks? Man you can’t go wrong on that deal. Will make some very nice projects, worm holes or not.

-- Jerry--A man can never have enough tools or clamps

Gloat?? Just one picture rubs it in our faces….shame on you for making me drool on my keyboard…well, not entirely drool….some tears as well…well, not entirely “some tears” more like buckets of tears…great buy!!!

-- /\/\/\ BarryW /\/\/\ Stay so busy you don't have time to die.

Like others, I’d be looking for ways to cook or pesticide that board (I think cooking it’d be easier, even though you’d have to find a way to insulate and heat big bits of it) and using the holes, whatever made ‘em, for visual effect.

Holes like that add character!

-- Dan Lyke, Petaluma California, http://www.flutterby.net/User:DanLyke

great find

-- "All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure." Mark Twain

Leave the holes. They add “character” to whatever project you make with the wood.

-- Glen