Sticker?

[RazrRebel]

Should I use hardwood or softwood for stickers?  Since I'm brand new at this, I could probably get some practice cutiing my stickers up and letting them dry!

[4x4American]

I like dry white pine for stickers

[furu]

I have been trying to use the same species that I am drying only already dried

[xlogger]

I don't think it makes much difference on what you use as long as they are dry. I now have a good supply of ERC stickers.

[Kirk Allen]

I use cotton wood more than anything. Free logs and once dry they last forever and have never stained anything to date.

[RazrRebel]

Today I cut about fifty out of a small hickory. This milling lumber is addictive. I can't wait to get a big log on there.

[mountainlake]

 

  Any wood will do.   Steve

[4x4American]

Sometimes you can get staining if you mix and match.  It it best for the stickers to be dry.  I like white pine because we have that in abundance around here.

[backwoods sawyer]

Around here KD Doug fir is used.

When I mill for a customer I don't charge for milling enough sticker stock for them to stack all of their wood on as I go.

When milling my own stickers I pick a few logs, and set up the chop saw with a stop on the flat bed trailer so I can cut a hand full at a time and mill up a pallet or two in a batch. Sticker each layer at 10"-12" oc as you build the pallet so they can start drying . Trim out the worst sections and set a standard, either it is a good sticker or it is not kind of thing. I mill mine 1"x 1 5/8" x length of forks, that lets me pull stickers off of either 1" or 1 5/8" stock later, they lay out quick and provide plenty of air flow.

A lot of customers are surprised to find out just how many stickers it takes to stack a unit of wood at 18" oc, and that 48" oc is not sufficient  

[4x4American]

Most times with say 8' stickers I will just sticker the lumber with them, then when I need more or there's enough weight on the pile I will take the chainsaw and cut em off.  It's fairly quick, but still a pain in the dickens