Five (5") long? You can, but that won't do anything to relieve the radial
stresses. I don't know what diameters you have, but what about splitting
the logs into halves or quarters? That would help to relieve radial stress
and assist drying.

Barry

"STEFANEE STIEN" wrote in message
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at least split the logs to relieve
some of the radial tension

Ray

What about cutting them into 5 inch long slices? And maybe turing green?