Baked pine?

[Mookie]

I picked up some pine from the store today andwas planning on makeing more shelves Is it okay if the pine isn't kiln dried? Can I just bake 6x6 pieces for 3 hours in the oven?

 

[tunes]

No. It needs to be kiln dried. This is being discussed in another thread about wood as well.

 

[Mookie]

Can I have the link to the other thread?

 

[Mookie]

Also how do you kiln dry? Where does anyone have a kiln? And what would happen if they ate baked pine? I have given my chins some a little while ago and now I'm worried. I was going to give them baked birch but it has the bark still and had brown sappy stuff under it on the baking pan

 

[Mookie]

Sorry for ovverposting on this, but I remember that the wood wasn't pin, it was whitewood. I checked the website and it sayd that their white woods are kiln dried because I got it from Lowe's.

 

[RDZCRanch]

Whitewood is KD pine. If you have a kiln, which the majority of the population does not, you can kiln dry the pine. Baking non-KD pine does not remove the toxins that could be found in pine and would kill your chinchilla. Usually if we tell you NOT to do something it's because your chinchilla will die from it.

 

[Mookie]

I'm very happy that my mini heart-attack is over! I thought I had given my chins pine that wasn't kiln dried but thank God it was Whitewood! Thats what I had bought at the store so after baking on top of being kiln dried the new shelves are in their cage!

 

[Tanya]

I thought Whitewood is not safe for chins.
Whitewood has been discussed here: http://www.chins-n-hedgies.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4399

'Whitewood' is technically (having worked for Weyerhaeuser, I know this to be a fact) wood made from spruce trees, which is generally considered on here to be unsafe for chinchillas. Sometimes, whitewood is also known as SPF, but this is not correct. SPF means spruce/pine/fir which means that it comes from a mixed forest as opposed to a monospecies forest grown for a specific timber purpose, such as a pine forest or a spruce forest. SPF basically means that all the logs were mixed up and it is one of those three species, and one of the three is not considered safe (spruce). So, either way you cut it, spruce is not safe, ergo whitewood is not safe. Well, if you put KD pine and whitewood next to each other, you should be able to see that the pine is more yellow than the whitewood (being more white or pale).

 

[Mookie]

Now I'm confused. One person says its okay another says its not. I have it in their cages right now, so should I take it out? the person from Lowe's I asked him for KD Pine and he brought me to the Whitewood and said its the same thing, o I bought it. I baked the wood on top of that for about 3 hours. Is it okay to keep in? I am worried now again

 

[Mookie]

Someone please help I am very nervous

 

[StevieP]

Whitewood is KD pine.

Whitewood can be either Spruce, Pine, or Fir. Unless the piece of lumber has a tag on it that says the specific species, you don't know what it is.

At Lowe's I have found that 1x6 and smaller lumber is spruce, 1x8 and larger is pine. There is a barcode stapled to the end of the board that says the species. This may not be true for all Lowe's though.

 

[Mookie]

I gt 1x8 i am going to check the code hopefully it is pine because my chins seem fine