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  1. lxskllr

    Drying eucalyptus

    That looks fantastic! Is that water or oil? Will the color last?
  2. lxskllr

    Drying eucalyptus

    I posted this somewhere around here...
  3. lxskllr

    Drying eucalyptus

    It kinda bugs me seeing firewood wrapped in plastic. If I were selling there's no way I wouldn't use sisal twine unless I was recycling poly twine from hay bales. I'd have to play with it to see if it would work, but soaking sisal twine in wax or oil might make a good firestarter for some added...
  4. lxskllr

    Drying eucalyptus

    I'd try to get that second ring out that looks like it wants to go, and make the tube into a critter house.
  5. lxskllr

    Drying eucalyptus

    That wood looks like a real bastard. Ever use maul+wedges? I find it's easier with nasty wood. Maybe no fewer swings, but you don't get stuck axes either, which gets really infuriating after awhile. You ever oil your axes? Climate here's way different than you, but oil seems to keep everything...
  6. lxskllr

    Drying eucalyptus

    Isn't alcohol hygroscopic? The mechanism that makes sense to me is the alcohol pulls the water out of the wood, and the alcohol then evaporates from the wood fast, speeding drying. Maybe that's what you said/meant; dunno. How does that affect the wood's natural oils? Does it matter?
  7. lxskllr

    Drying eucalyptus

    Crazy checking there.
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