Hi! Just let anted to say Thanks for your videos! They have been such a help to me , especially the tutorials. I have heard people talk about storage in different forms but it was great to actually have an in-depth video about what to do!! I really like the way you explain things and how much detail you go into about it. Again I can not Thank you enough for taking the time to do these videos!!!!

Thanks for putting this out there. I would have never come across the idea myself, and now have two bins at home!

I was gonna ask about weighing down the wood to keep it submerged, but towards the bottom I saw someone else already asked that. I figured I would leave a comment anyways just to show my appreciation, thanks!

Keep your containers as dark as possible. Even the smallest amount of light will accelerate bacteria and algi growth. Thanks for all the great vids.

The bark !! I’ve been changing water every two days!! I just ran down and peeled every log and washed out my tubs! Thank you my friend As a spoon newbie this was one of those things that just isn’t spoken of

Awesome information. Thank you!

Very helpful! Thank you Sean!

Great video and lots of good information, thanks a lot!!

This water method is why in the old'en days, lumber mills would not worry when logs would finally sink while waiting to be cut. With water passing through the pond, the wood would stay fresh on the bottom of the pond and could be recovered at any time without loosing quality. I wonder if a little bleach in the water would help you have to not change out so often? 1/2 teaspoon? Have you tried that? Thank you for posting. This is timely. I have a black walnut that I am about to trim. Thought about digging a small ditch area - 2x2, lining the bottom with several layers of news paper. Putting in a layer of damp Douglas fir bark, nestle in the peeled cut walnut, cover with more bark, thick layer of newspaper and then soil. Could use wood shavings animal bedding dampened instead of bard chips which might color wood. Old timers used to just bury the limb/logs for storage. Sorry this is so long, but one thought led to another! We have enough natural soil moisture plus a sparingly used sprinkler system to keep it all damp. I may give the bark and also the shavings a try to see what happens. Also have a Russian olive to cut down. Have you ever carved that? Thanks, so much for posting. Your videos are inspiring. Keep them coming as you can.

This is great info. I will give this a try!

Hey thanks for this! Just starting out and this gave me a better idea how to store the wood.

Very informative. Thank you for sharing. This is a very good method to store wood for long periods of time.

this was SUPER. helpful. I am just starting out and have some pieces of black walnut logs sitting in buckets of water. I was worried about losing them, so dunked them in, but had no idea what I was doing. The buckets are disgusting. Hoping I can still salvage the wood, but now I know how to deal with keeping the wood green and doing so effectively. Thank you so much!

I've only watched three of your videos but your channel is a wealth of knowledge... I have subscribed!

I used this technique for keeping white oak for basket making. Since I had to have long sections to make splits, I used a large (6") diameter PVC pipe about 8' long, fill it with long billets and then with water. Worked great.

Great info!

Someone from FB suggested this video- and I have to say thank you! New guy- looking at spoons- just got a haul of Sycamore and Pear green and dont know what to do with it! So Bravo and thanks!

Great info.

Thank you mate. Great info :)

Came across 7' of birch 10" in diameter and thought "what the hell am I gonna do with all this??" Thanks for the advice!

Sean, thanks for this info! I was told when I started carving a year ago that I should paint the ends of my logs to keep them from drying and checking. That didn’t work for me for whatever reason. Now I will try your method. Again, thanks!

Always great to see how you work and the processes you use. Really appreciate you taking the time to make these videos. The bleach/chlorine comments are definitely spot on, I use just a little food grade citric acid in a similar application with great success. Your large bin outside has probably been staying cleaner longer because of the freezing temps. Bacteria thrives in warm damp environment, dies off with the freeze and is deferred with lower temps.

very useful video :)

thanks I have wanted to know about keeping wood in water

I'll have to give this a try. Being in a prairie province in a a city away from the forests I have a limited access to green wood and need to either use it right away or find a way to store it. And since I am new to this hobby I am usually finding the wood online after it has been cut down for a while. Failing that I cut it up and let it dry and boil/rehydrate it later (which has worked well actually).

I store my wood in the freezer in plastic bags and when I take it out for carving I pour boiling water over it to defrost the wood, an let it soak for about an hour or two. Works great for me, some woods that are prone to cracking like apple I keep soaked for maybe 24 hours to get an even moisture content in it, seams to work for me. I guess that the moisture that freeze drys out of the wood can be dehydrated fairly well I suppose….

Thanks for doing this so quickly! The basic info is straightforward, but lots of the details and results are not so obvious. I'm especially interested in the effect on the walnut billets. Backing up a level to the wood selection process: What is the smallest (diameter) piece you will consider using for spoons?

Dude, I find your vids very informative compared to the other guys I follow. Most people don’t want to get into their intimate details like you’re doing here. From watching your videos, I am going to implement a few ideas into my set up (currently under construction) ei I’ll be setting up my small carving station in my house. Can you talk more about your axe block (design) , would you do anything different one the next one? And what proportions/ dimensions are recommended? I got my hands on an oak trunk in FL before moving to NC, so now I’m getting ready to build my axe block. The o their thing I may do is use the water technique, except first I have to figure out where to get my wood ‘sourcing’.. Huron, thank you for your time and keep up with the videos.

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Learned something new. Thank you sir. I’ll definitely have to try this out. One quick question, do you ever see or have any issues with spoons or carvings cracking when they start to finally dry out?

Now is the time of year to head to the apple orchards and get permission to pick up the tree prunings and get them into water. Also, 4 Sterlite 32 quart gasket totes at Walmart on-line is just $31.24 shipped to your local store.

It's like what loggers did and may still do in certain places. I wonder how much the drying times of the carved spoons take compared to a fresh piece of green wood. Should try and compare that for a vid. Thanks.

Thank you for sharing your method and experience for storing green wood. I’m new to spoon carving and trying to find the best method for storing green wood in the future. With first batch I had painted the end grains but the moisture still escaped by the time I went to carve so the wood was incredibly hard to carve. Once you carve something, like an eating spoon, how long does it usually take for the spoon to dry once its done?

Great video. Once you decide to use one of the blanks in the tubs do you have to let it dry some before you start carving it? Or do you just take it out and start the axe and knife work> Also not sure I got the brand or specs on the totes you are using. Can you give us that too?

Can you re-hydrate billets this way? I cut down a young birch tree a year ago, wasn't able to get serious with using it and its been in my garage. Now that I have time, the right tools, and such, I stare at that pile of birch wondering if I can get some moisture in it to help it become easily carved or just burn it and find another tree. Thanks.

Thanks!! Do you take it out right before carving?

Do you weigh down the wood to keep it submerged. If yes, what do you use.

The key to preserving anything is denying it oxygen, fill your head space with carbon dioxide and you may not need to change your water as often. You could add a tire valve and use the CO2 cartridges for filling bike tires or add a small chunk of dried ice to the water and let it sublimate filling the headspace with CO2

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