"Joseph Handy" wrote in message
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Great ideas. Thanks!

So green wood remains stable after turning? It won't shrink and crack?

One last question, what's a skid?


If you cut it thin, it will distort, but it'll seldom crack, unless you're
_really_ dry. Tent with some newsprint to bring it down slower. Keeps
things damper underneath.

This piece, as you can see by the initial picture, was a chunk of firewood
split a year ago, so it was pretty dry to begin with.

Skidding is the process of getting the cut logs out of the woods. Nowadays
they no longer skid them along the ground, which I suppose was the origin of
the term, rather lift them with beasts like this, or larger.
http://www.transport.qld.gov.au/qt/LTASinfo.nsf/ReferenceLookup/Log_timber_skidder.pdf/$file/Log_timber_skidder.pdf