seasoning Maple outdoors

[Cliff Rohrabacher]

I just dragged my chain saw up one side of a 3' diameter rock maple and down the other. First of course I cut it in 10 foot lengths.
Oh my aching back. Nothing a few beers and some asperin won't cure.
Anyway I have seasoned elm indoors before with nothing on the ends. That produced more checking than I liked. So I'm looking for a better way to treat the ends.

This pile of log halves won't go indoors till it's time to cut it up.
I plan to stack the log halves outdoors on concrete blocks with stickers to keep air moving and cover them. That's it.
ERGO: Does anyone have any suggestions what I should use as a treatment for the ends??

Thanks.
c.

[Don Baer]

Anchor seal or http://www.woodcraft.com/images/Family/web769.jpg

19.95 Gal. Rocklers also has a similar product.

[Andy Hoyt]

Anchorseal - nothing better and less expensive by the 5 gallon bucket.

https://www.uccoatings.com/prod_anchorseal.php

[Don Baer]

Andy,
I bet this is just repackaged Anchorseal. I know its more expensive but when ya need it in a hurry ya take what you can get. I got a gallon of the stuff from Rocklers and I still have about 2/3 of it left.

[Cliff Rohrabacher]

Thanks Anchorseal it is. All that backbreaking effort I don't want to wreck it.

This tree came from my daughter's place where they had to cut it to make room for an addition. The tree guy couldn't believe that someone was actually going to harvest the trunk for board lumber. Either that or he was dissapointed at not being able to sell it as fiirewood.
They get better than $200 a cord here and the cords are always short.

I have a bevy of trees I need to harvest on my place and I had been considering how to treat it.

[Andy Hoyt]

Cliff - Where is "here"?

That's some pricey cordwood.