Placement/alignment of stickers.

TM 38-400/NAVSUP PUB 572/AFMAN 23-210 MCO 4450.14/DLAM 4145.12

of the completed draft and will cause water to drip from

once a draft of lumber is started to obtain the correct

pitch and uniform face on each risk of lumber.

the front of the pile instead of seeping in. The sticker

will retard end drying and tend to prevent end checking

(3) Placement/alignment of stickers.

The

of the lumber. The second sticker should be placed 12

proper alignment of stickers in each draft of lumber is

inches from the front of the pile and the balance of the

necessary to prevent warping and bowing. Proper

stickers positioned at 5-foot 4-inch intervals directly over

alignment is also necessary to assure vertical columns

pile foundations, as shown in figure 5-5. The only

of stickers from top to bottom of the storage stack when

variation in the sticker spacing will be in the stacking of

the stack consists of several drafts (fig 5-5). When

hardwoods or other lumber prone to warp. Sticker

placing stickers, the first stickers should be against the

spacing for these lumbers will be on 2-foot 8-inch

butt board.

This will give an inverted stair step

centers.

appearance to the face

Figure 5-5. Diagram of properly stickered and formed drafts of lumber stored on wooden block foundation.

sible as sticker alignment between drafts could not be

(4) Sticker guide. The sticker guide (fig 5-6)

maintained. Sticker guides should be constructed to

is essential in the formation of drafts of lumber. Its

provide the longitudinal sticker spacing shown in figure

basic function is to guide the placing of stickers so that

5-5, except that, at activities where the standard storage

the stickers will provide vertical columns of support for

plan has not been implemented, foundation spacing will

the lumber over each foundation support timber. Sticker

determine sticker spacing.

However, under no

guides must be constructed to function in conjunction

circumstances will sticker spacing exceed 6 feet.

with the butt board to give the column of stickers the

same degree of pitch as is maintained on the face of the

pile. Otherwise, the proper stacking of drafts of lumber

is impos-

5-6