Drying and storing maple lumber

[Acer Saccharum]

I've cut up several trees, and I believe that one tree had bugs in it before it was cut down. Get the bark off asap, cut into planks asap, then cut into blanks, paint the ends, sticker it up all before the weather gets too warm.

I expect some kind of pesticide would help while curing the wood.

It doesn't matter how hard the maple is, those little buggers can make swiss cheese out of your blanks.

[Nordnecker]

Well....live and hopefully learn. Truth is, time just goes by so fast it was June before I knew it. I have a little saw mill called a Ripsaw. But it's gotten out of whack and I don't know how to fix it. Another friend of mine has a big Woodmizer and we never could coordinate to saw it sooner. So when another friend told me he had access to a small woodmizer I jumped at the chance to use it.
I did remove the bark before I stacked the wood. There was one bark edged slab that was pretty big and thick on one end. I set it inside the shop just to keep an eye on it in case it started checking. I had sealed the ends of the whole log right after cutting it down. It never really checked, so I didn't worry about the stack of lumber.
So last winter after drilling a ramrod hole too low, I thought, What the heck. Just use this slab. I had not removed the bark from it and there were no signs of PPB.
But time marches on. If I had only wanted gun stock blanks I would have dealt with it sooner. Oh well, At least I got one stock out of it.