It's Yakisugi time

The Yakisugi portion of the garden project is complete. we are another step closer to growing our own veggies again on our new homestead.

This is brilliant Ron! Thanks for sharing. I'll be interested to see how the wood stands up. We have someone locally who used this technique on his house timber rather than staining it black (like our neighbour) and it looks really good.

Nancy Reading wrote:This is brilliant Ron! Thanks for sharing. I'll be interested to see how the wood stands up. We have someone locally who used this technique on his house timber rather than staining it black (like our neighbour) and it looks really good.

I got 8 years out of raised beds from this same kind of wood WITHOUT burning or staining or painting the wood when we lived at our last place. If this method tripples the life of the beds, I'll be in my mid 80's by then.

I failed to mention that this burning took 2 1 /2 tanks of propane. I think it could be done (but slower) over a wood fire.

Burn 3 boards at a time with no propane by wiring them up in a sort of chimney configuration:  

Abe Coley wrote:Burn 3 boards at a time with no propane by wiring them up in a sort of chimney configuration: https://youtu.be/rzVoBog8A_4

But I need to burn all 6 faces (that includes ends and edges) so that method wont work for this application.

Ron Kulas wrote:

Abe Coley wrote:Burn 3 boards at a time with no propane by wiring them up in a sort of chimney configuration: https://youtu.be/rzVoBog8A_4

But I need to burn all 6 faces (that includes ends and edges) so that method wont work for this application.

If you leave a gap at the bottom I would expect the bottom edge to char.  The top and side edges should char too.  For the other 3 broad sides I would think you have to turn them around to the inside and set the fire again.  Something I'd love to try some day!

Greg Martin wrote:

Ron Kulas wrote:

Abe Coley wrote:Burn 3 boards at a time with no propane by wiring them up in a sort of chimney configuration: https://youtu.be/rzVoBog8A_4

But I need to burn all 6 faces (that includes ends and edges) so that method wont work for this application.

If you leave a gap at the bottom I would expect the bottom edge to char.  The top and side edges should char too.  For the other 3 broad sides I would think you have to turn them around to the inside and set the fire again.  Something I'd love to try some day!

The large torch worked pretty well with minimal handling of the pieces.