Message-Id: <l03110700b13eeecd1462@[205.216.99.30]>
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 12:28:11 -0500
To: baidarka@lists.intelenet.net
From: "Craig O'Donnell" <dadadata@friend.ly.net>
Subject: [baidarka] [FWD] Splitting wood
..From: Mark Anderson <andermar@teleport.com>
..Subject: Re: [FWD: baidarka] Splitting wood
..
..>Hi Mark,
..>
..>Since you are a tree-hackin-maven, I thougt you might have some advice for
..>this guy.
..
..> ..From: Don and Monica Cook <monicac@gte.net>
..> ..
..> ..I am certainly no expert, but I would rate this tree as fair lumber
..> ..potential at best. It has almost a twin trunk (that may eventually
..> ..split, which is one of several reasons we are removing it). It does not
..> ..have competing trees around it, so it has lots of low branches (and
..> ..probably knots).
..> ..
..> ..Am I better off selling it as fire wood, and buying prime lumber?
..
..Splitting it into lumber, ala the viking way would be very difficult
..because of all the knots. I'd suggest hiring a local with a WoodMizer
..portable sawmill. Around here they charge either $50/hr. or
$250/thousand B.F.
..
..Sounds like the wood won't make good boatbuilding lumber. If you're
..building a big boat it'd be useful for molds, scaffolding, etc. For small
..boats you might be able to find okay stuff by culling out the bad stuff.
..The better stuff may be on the sides of the 2 trunks that face each other.
..The branches are perhaps less there? Whereever there's a branch, there's a
..knot.
..
..Mark Anderson
..Riparia
..
.."The trouble with good ideas is that they soon degenerate into a lot of
..hard work."
..
Craig O'Donnell
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