Soaking logs....

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On our way to the Home Bar in Troy MT yesterday we drove by a Idaho Forestry (?) lumber machining yard.....They had a few very large piles of full length logs that were being kept saturated with some high volume sprinklers....anybody know why? They were tossing tanker fulls of water based on the amount of gooey mud around the piles of logs...
 
inkjunkie said:
On our way to the Home Bar in Troy MT yesterday we drove by a Idaho Forestry (?) lumber machining yard.....They had a few very large piles of full length logs that were being kept saturated with some high volume sprinklers....anybody know why? They were tossing tanker fulls of water based on the amount of gooey mud around the piles of logs...
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I know that's how they grow shitakie. Mushrooms. seed the logs and keep them soaked
May be one answer.
 
They also mill much better with much less wear on the saw teeth when they are wet. Milling a cured dry log is a real female dog sometimes but you get a lot more breaks when things are shut down for blade changes...
 
Maybe they don't have a log pond.
 
I've never run across a log soaker, but i have met a few cork soakers.
 
How many people here are from the "Wood" business?
I have 20 years in the papermaking industry with the old Bowater company.
My father had 35 years as a papermaker.
 
65cuda360 said:
I've never run across a log soaker, but i have met a few cork soakers.
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[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFN9Km9KFXU"]SNL's BobbyO-Italian_Cork_Soakers-20080331 - YouTube[/ame]
 
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