Unlike chair and table joints, deck joints can be hybrid or mechanical (using metal parts), which allows the wood to change size without deforming the deck. For instance, the problem with joints not holding up is irrelevant because deck joints usually leave room for wood to breathe in varying temperatures. Insects find this wood quite appetizing as well.įortunately, decking isn’t vulnerable to most of these drawbacks. Fungi thrive in wet wood and can survive on green wood. Rotting and infestation – Wood with high moisture content is ripe for organic activity.The plainer the wood, the better chance it has of drying evenly. Uneven shrinkage – Wood can start to appear deformed because of uneven drying.
In other instances, they become too tight. Sometimes, the joints are completely undone. Unreliable joint hold – As green wood dries, the water evaporates at an uneven rate, and the least exposed parts (joints) are the most affected by this.The video below shows how the use of steel can lend stability to green log construction. Steel joints are common in large-scale projects that use green logs. It’s just the smaller joints that become unreliable.Īnything that you can build without wood joints can be built with green logs. A 10-foot (3.048 m) spoke, or pillar will remain more or less 10 feet. The shrinkage and expansion of green wood aren’t so drastic that you cannot guess the overall wood length in feet. This would make the joint loose or too tight. It might shrink or expand at a different rate than the pin. But if you make the same joint with green wood, you can’t be sure that the tail will remain a one-inch wood piece. You can treat wood as dead matter and cut joints that add up mathematically.įor a one-inch pin, you need a one-inch tail to make a dovetail that mathematically adds up. You can build with green logs, just have to account for shrinkage- captain AT December 1, 2020ĭry wood doesn’t change volume, which means you can use 100% woodworking construction and have a relatively stable structure.
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