I’ve just starting reading “The Village Carpenter”… a fact based memoir of a Carpenters doings in days gone by..

He talks of it being usual to ‘shock’ the new-sawn planks before laying them flat to dry….

What is this ‘shocking’?

I shock the planks I work with every day. I use big words and tell them, repeatedly, I dont read the daily mail or watch football …. 😀

Ha ha..

I googled for ‘shocking planks’ and got lots of pictures of odd looking women with tiny waists doing balancing exercises. Meh. Curves please.

Sorry… couldn’t pass up that good a lead….

@ Samurai…I did the same then gave up after a headline of ” pooing replaces planking” …thought I was getting in too deep…

The only meaning of shock in conjunction with wood that I know of is where you lean all of the planks up together to make a more or less self supporting structure (the “shock”), usually to let the majority of the surface moisture dry off before you stack them horizontally for air drying.

Does that make sense in context?

That seems to be in context..
Thanks…