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I owne a saw mill and have some questions reguarding timbers. Are most people out there framing with seasond or green timbers. I have acesss to a large ammount of younger doug fir were I live so I am wondering about the box heart timber, because these tree are only big enough to box into one beam ie. 8x8 , 10x10 or something like that.
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Green boxed heart is probably the most common timber used.
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...and Douglas Fir...nice to work with, fo sho...
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so does evryone agree that it is common place to use green timbers? thanx everyone for responding
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yes, green is common. check out the UK websites, they call it green oak construction... for example, http://www.greenoakstructures.co.uk/
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Derek. what are relief cuts? tb
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I want to see the relief cuts too, please. bradbb@surfbest.net
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We've done relief cuts on some projects, but it seems everyone has a different opinion on exactly how deep they should go... What's the opinion here? (*POP* goes the can o' worms again....  )
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1/3 to 1/2 of timber size(don't go past center).
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