I've graduated! No longer am I to be... called Toby Toter.... I now answer to Earl Oiler, Stanley Stainer, or maybe even Pete painter.... your choice!
During my Toby Toter days, as you may recall, not that long ago, I wrote about moving a large number of, and lengths of, tongue and groove one by lumber (1"x6") into the garage to acclimate to a warmer temperature. Probably didn't mentions the reason earlier why we move the lumber, but it was, we hoped, to curtail the warping process to as minimal as possible.
Well then.... I think there are 180 pieces of this lumber, neatly stacked in piles of 15. We placed three rows of three saw horsed in rows several feet apart, allowing plenty of work room between them, and then laid 5 boards on each set of horses.
Our thought in the beginning was to use a Hudson Sprayer... ah, a plastic hand pump weed type sprayer most rural folks will know the type.... all others don't bother research the type, it didn't work, sprayed more oil on the floor than on the wood.... time for another course of action.
The new course involved applying the oil on.... inch by inch with a 4" brush. Fortunately, the oil, a wood preservative
Boring..... in the last two days we have brushed over 5000 lineal feet of oil on this damn boards, about 8 gallons. Stacked neatly in dead domino formation on the garage floor to dry..... spontaneous combustion would be disastrous.... ah, fire, not a good event in new construction.
Today finished the oiling, and began the beam laminations with the OSB...
to be continued:
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