Loading 7+ tons of Wood into the Kiln . . . BY HAND! . . . Sometimes You Just Don't Have a Choice

As part of the ongoing documentation of the building of the furniture for Woodstock Millworks, we loaded up the Kiln with the lumber we recently milled from the property. Unfortunately, the kiln cart had developed a defect. We could not risk that defect negatively impacting the kiln drying process. Since the purchasing one was a 1 to 2 month wait, we had to load the kiln up ourselves. The wood was still green (filled with water) and it weighed 7 tons! We were exhausted after moving all this wood. This video was actually recorded months ago, but we have been gloriously busy and have not been able to sit down, edit and publish this video until now.

We milled the log with our Wood-Mizer LT40Wide portable sawmill and used a Kubota B2650 tractor to move the logs to the mill and remove the finished lumber from the mill. We stack and sticker the green wood for 3 to 6 months to air-dry before putting the moving it into our Wood-Mizer KD250 Dehumidification Kiln to finish drying the lumber.

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