Wood

remove the bark

>>1224678
Bake it in an oven at low temperature to remove the moisture

>>1224678
Keep it someplace dry and let it dry out fully. Keep it dry from then on. That's all.

What he >>1224713. Remove the moisture from wood and it will pretty much last forever. It's why it's the oldest construction material and still in use.

>>1224678
Boil in hot water and then soak in meneral spirits

>>1224678
Just have your furcunt piss all over it then throw it out and get a dog

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>>1225737
mad cause no love

>>1224678
remove bark, soak in motor oil

>>1224678

Literally just put it in your attic for a year. Works for fresh cut wood, if it was lying rotting on the ground probably not going to work.

>>1224678
Keep in a cool dry place with airflow. Rule of thumb is 1 year/inch of thickness. Coat the ends with wax or a few coats of paint if you don't want it to split as it dries out.
taking the bark off helps, if it's summer cut, the bark is loose and provides insects places to hide and insects come out to drink water and add moisture back to the wood when they come back. Winter cut wood or certain species, sometimes the bark is 'glued' on by the sap and contraction by the winter and doesn't provide a gap for insects to nest in.

Wood that has partially rotted but is dried out and stopped is called spalted wood. if it's not too progressed you can ignore it, it takes time for the fungus to progess enough to break down the wood and make it soft. Any 'spongy areas are not good, if there are only a few you can stabilize them with superglue (cyanoacrylate) or epoxy, although they might not be the best choice.
95% of wood rot will stop if the wood is dry, although it may not die depending, which is why if enough of a house is flooded you have to rip out the timbers, because the rot will be a base where it can spread further with any moisture at all.

>>1224713
kiln drying like this is easiest and quickest. For best results, leave the oven door cracked open. Wood burns at 451 degrees Fahrenheit (reference to paperback book burning scifi novel, actually depends on species but 400+ degrees is a good rough number, 200-300 degrees is not an issue), but drying it quickly you do run more of a risk of cracks/splitting as the wood changes shape from the moisture leaving. Add a finish after drying, like polyurethane, and any fungus left inside the wood should not be an issue, it won't have moisture to grow with and it wont have access to the air to mess you up and release spores.