Straightening Warped Lumber Experiments Continued

here we are back with these previously very crooked boards that we very successfully straightened in the last videos in this series when we started out the experiment these boards were so warped and twisted they looked more like those type of noodles that are flat and they go all over the place Linguini or whatever they are I don't know my pasta if you didn't see those videos I'll put a link in the description to the playlist so you can see how we took those very crooked boards and used a very simple effective method to straighten them out to what they are now oh over a month and a half later they still haven't moved a bit at least not noticeably some of you made some suggestions in the comments for some experiments that we could do with these boards several made the suggestion that even though these are now straight they still have tension in them if we were to rip these boards the tension would be released and they would warp again maybe even to the point where if you tried to rip them with a table saw it would bind up the table saw I think that sounds like a good experiment to try but we're not going to use a table saw we're going to use the Sawmill so we'll rip one of these down see what happens see if it moves see if it stays straight another experiment I wanted to do was to take one of these leave it out in the rain let it soak up with water see what happens if it soaks up with water is it going to soak straight or is that going to cause it to warp in the previous videos soaking them with water straighten them out but what happens when they're straight and we soak them with water is that going to cause them to warp or will they stay straight when they get wet and if so what happens when we dry them after they're wet we'll start with that one first we'll take out the top test moisture meter check the moisture content they should all be close to the same they were stored in the same place in the 10 to 12 range this is a nice little moisture meter the top test people have been nice to the Channel I'll give him a little plug put a link in the description it's a nice simple moisture meter we'll do what we did last time put it on top of this shipping container it's a flat surface where they'll get rained on I mean it will get rained on last time it was them this time it's it and it'll be out of my way another common comment was as these boards continue to dry they're already pretty dry but they're not kill dried dry but if they continue to dry they're going to warp or if they're outside in the humidity and they absorb moisture out of the air that's going to cause them to warp people who work with wood already know that changes in humidity can cause wood to move some but since these ones started out being extremely warped and we straighten them out are these ones going to warp more than just normal boards would with changes in humidity to test that I'll take one of them and just leave it Outdoors not out in the rain but under cover but in the outdoor air we're getting into our most damp time of the year when we have a lot of high humidity damp cold weather we'll just leave it out and see if anything changes for the moment I'll just put it in with this Lumber until I figure out a better place to put it where it will be exposed to damp air but be out of the rain and out of my way most important out of my way the next one I'll bring it indoors in a wood stove heated environment where the air is dry leave it in there for a while see if it moves for all those experiments we're going to have to wait for them to run their course to see what the results are but the next one we can do that one right now get this one out of the way now we'll rip this one with the Sawmill and see if it does have tension in it and if it does something crazy I'm guessing it won't do anything crazy but we'll see if it noticeably releases tension and warps when we cut it on the mill the problem here is if I clamp it in it's going to bend the board which won't affect the results but it will affect our ability to watch the results happen let's try something else this will give a more even push against it and keep it straight I think before we rip this I will go out on a Lim and give my prediction I don't think it's going to change much when we rip it if it moves any I don't think it'll do more than what you'd expect from just a normal board maybe slightly more since we straighten these by getting them wet than drying them I think it's going to be like when we go to bed with wet hair then wake up in the morning and we have a flat spot or it's doing something weird when that happens every hair dries that way every hair wants to be that way I think it's going to be similar with this all the wood fibers dried that way and all the wood fibers are going to want to stay this way but I could be totally wrong about that that doesn't come from experience that's just what the squirrel up here running around in the cage came up with with wood you have different grain different fibers they may be all doing different things and when we cut it it may fly apart and do something crazy or more likely just warp and these knots that's another wild card maybe those knots the wood fibers in there are doing something different than the wood fibers and the rest of the board and they're going to cause it to do something let's find out let's see what we ended up [Music] with I would say they stayed pretty straight let's start let's swap these put them in the orientation that they started in this was a thinner board it didn't dry quite as straight as the others it had a little bit of warpage in it already I don't think cutting it changed it see what it looks like this way you look at the way they sit on each bed section I would say reasonably flat to make this a good experiment I don't know that it was fair just to do it with one board I think we need to do a second board just to make sure we can reproduce the results maybe that one board was just an anomaly let's see what this board does let's see what that one did I would say pretty flat the one on the left is up a little higher than the one on the right but is that not uncommon for normal lumber on the other side it's even more even I'd say that's pretty flat if I was to come up with a conclusion for this point of these videos I would say this wasn't effective way to take really crooked Lumber to easily straighten it into what so far appears to be stable Lumber in order to do this last piece I had to hijack that one that I was going to leave outside in the humidity but I can just take these pieces and leave those out and see if they change at all this is the one we'll leave outside in the humidity that won't get rained on after I've been watching these boards for the last month and a half since we ended the last experiment noticing how they have haven't moved at all even though they started out being extremely twisted and warped I think they're now just normal stable boards but I'm still really curious to see what happens to the one I put on top of the container to see what happens after it gets wet then it dries again that will be interesting if you didn't see the previous videos in this series and you're not quite sure what's going on here I will leave a link to the playlist in the description if you go back and watch those this one might make a little more sense thanks to those of you who made comments suggestions on what to do with these boards for experiments for those who said it in the previous videos and those who may feel compelled to mansplain it to us in this video something along the lines of well if you would have milled them properly and stickered and dried them properly to begin with you wouldn't have had the Warped boards to begin with thank you Mr Obvious we appreciate that and on that note thank you for watching

Channel: Wilson Forest Lands

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Length: 8min 58sec (538 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 21 2023