Thanks for the advice. About 95% of the wood is QS red oak...Brian

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"Brian In Hampton" wrote in message
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I am stacking about 300-350 bf of oak and want to bet the rec's insight.
I
wood like to know if I should sticker all the small stuff (6-8" wide)
first
and put the heavy boards on the top to help in keeping the other boards
flat
when drying?? Heavy being 8/4 26" wide 11' long.


TIA........Brian

Doesn't matter. If you want to weight the stack, you'll do it best with a
piece of stickered ply and bricks (or other lumber). What does matter is
stacking those boards with significant sapwood near the bottom, sapwood
side
down, and maintaining good sticker registry. Since most sapwood-faced
boards are thin, maybe that's where the "advice" originated.

I 5-sticker 100" boards.

These folks have a lot of good information on stacking and stickering.
http://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/