You have to let the wood acclimate to the climate in your shop. For at least a
few months.


spike
 "No hour of life is lost spent in the saddle"
                             W. Churchill



> On Jul 31, 2015, at 7:20 PM, Mark Pfeifer  wrote:
> 
> SNIP: pretzel lumber from the box store
> 
> The rafter story was sad, sorry to hear it. I have a horror story of my own .
. . . was it the wood?