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   CAGIV | Jun 17, 2007 09:18pm | #1

   What are you going to use the 1x4 for?

   Maybe there is an alternate material you can use if you can locally find decent treated material.

   Maybe a vinyl/PVC product such as Azek, KOMA, or Versatex.

   Most of the treated lumber I've been seeing around here has also been very wet, look and see if you can find wood that has been kiln dried after it has been treated.

   

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   brownbagg | Jun 17, 2007 09:36pm | #2

   Maybe a vinyl/PVC product such as Azek, KOMA, or Versatexyou are talking about stuff they dont sell here. its either wood or wood and it wet or wet, we dont have dry wood. and if it dry its warp

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   BilljustBill | Jun 17, 2007 09:53pm | #3

     Brownbagg,

     The treated wood I've found on cull carts at the big box stores

   usually is on the down side of drying.  The unequal drying is the

    highest reason for twists, bows, and warps.

      What I've found is to turn the wet treated boards every

    several days if you have them solidly stacked....and that

   means work.  The other ways I've gotten the boards

    to reduce their warping is to place the weight of dried l

   umber on top of the pressure treated lumber.

     Another way is to let them dry as you've stacked them. 

   Then the night before you plan to use them, you lay them

    out on the grass and soak them down several times while

    flipping them over so the water equally gets to both faces. 

   You'll be surprised to see how much they relax and straighten out...

   until they are used or until the hot sun comes out (LOL)....

       Lastly, I bought both bar clamps and and F-clamps to pull them straight as I use them.  I built my raise bed garden planters measuring 10'X10' and 10'X20' and 18" deep with culled and warped pressure treated lumber.  I did pay retail for 8' long 4X4's in which I cut 3 lengths for clear and solid corner posts.  I cut the decorative tops on my bandsaw & radial arm saw, and got 3 posts for the price of buying 1 precut post at Lowe's.

      Here's a  shot of how I gathered lumber for my current endevor.  I've been collecting culled lumber from the local Lowes since last September.  Paying 10%-25% on the dollar, I've collected enough to almost frame two 16'X32' two story sheds....  The other is a shot of my pressure treated raised bed planters.  Buying culled lumber, I used what would total FIFTY 1X4's that were 10' long, of pressure treated wood, on the decorative angled wood on the planter sides.  The twists and bows disappear on short pieces; the knots and splits are simply cut out and tossed....

      Turn them regularly, dry them under pressure, wet them until use, or cut them into pieces so short that the bows don't matter.   Hope these ideas help,  Bill

   
   

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   Edited 6/17/2007 3:01 pm ET by BilljustBill

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   rez | Jun 19, 2007 05:28am | #4

   dang bill, you sure got them packed in there.

   View ImageWho knows but if men constructed their dwellings with their own hands, and provided food for themselves and families simply and honestly enough, the poetic faculty would be universally developed, as birds universally sing when they are so engaged?-Thoreau's Walden

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   brownbagg | Jun 19, 2007 05:47am | #5

   dont you just love them little tags.

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   rez | Jun 19, 2007 06:08am | #6

   What amazes me is I have a little rep around my burg of local friends for being the stash man of building stuff.

   But having seen some of the guys of BT, they have so much that I see where they could swallow up all my goods and never even notice a change in their stash.

   be got me beat

    Who knows but if men constructed their dwellings with their own hands, and provided food for themselves and families simply and honestly enough, the poetic faculty would be universally developed, as birds universally sing when they are so engaged?-Thoreau's Walden

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   DougU | Jun 19, 2007 02:00pm | #7

   BB

   Your down there in prime cypress country and you cant find any of it!

   What do you need the treated for?

   Doug