Larry Jaques <novalidaddress@di\/ersify.com> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> On 21 Jun 2004 03:23:12 -0700, [email protected] (Larry) calmly
> ranted:
>
Thanks for the reply's. I've got a rather large and odd maple out
back that just might have some fine figure inside. Just want to do it
right. I studied on that girdle thing some. A question on that:
will girdling open up the possibility of spalting?
tks
Lawrence
Dormant season. Winter, for those outside the tropics, dry season
elsewhere.
Tree is in a conservation mode then, with its resources in the root system,
so less sugar for syrup and less unbound water to foster mold.
Winter is also a good time for two other reasons - you can see better where
and how your selected tree intersects in the canopy with others, and it
damages the ground less if you skid when frozen.
http://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/TMU/publications.htm for all you want to know
"Plebian" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Is there a 'best' season to fell a tree for use in woodworking? Is
> drying time affected? Does one season give wood better structural and
> visual qualities over another? tks
> Lawrence
Ah! The _first_ time doing your own firewood warms you.
Fewer blackflies, too.
"Joe_Stein" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> And another reason for felling it in the winter....felling a tree is
> sometimes very labor intensive, so you'll sweat less when it's cool
outside.
> This advice from a retired highway worker.
>
> "George" <george@least> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > Dormant season. Winter, for those outside the tropics, dry season
> > elsewhere.
> >
> > Tree is in a conservation mode then, with its resources in the root
> system,
> > so less sugar for syrup and less unbound water to foster mold.
> >
> > Winter is also a good time for two other reasons - you can see better
> where
> > and how your selected tree intersects in the canopy with others, and it
> > damages the ground less if you skid when frozen.
> >
> > http://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/TMU/publications.htm for all you want to know
> >
> >
> > "Plebian" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> > news:[email protected]...
> > > Is there a 'best' season to fell a tree for use in woodworking? Is
> > > drying time affected? Does one season give wood better structural and
> > > visual qualities over another? tks
> > > Lawrence
> >
> >
>
>
I asked my brother-in-law whose family has heated with wood for over
200 years in New Hampshire. He said "Cut in the middle of summer when
the leaves are fully developed. Knock it down and let it sit a couple
weeks with the leaves on till they wither and are completely dry.
Then cut it up and split it. The leaves draw enough of the water out
that the wood is pretty well ready to burn that winter." I tried it
with a big black walnut and the wood was dry enough to turn without
getting showered.
On 21 Jun 2004 03:23:12 -0700, [email protected] (Larry) calmly
ranted:
>I asked my brother-in-law whose family has heated with wood for over
>200 years in New Hampshire. He said "Cut in the middle of summer when
>the leaves are fully developed. Knock it down and let it sit a couple
>weeks with the leaves on till they wither and are completely dry.
>Then cut it up and split it. The leaves draw enough of the water out
>that the wood is pretty well ready to burn that winter." I tried it
>with a big black walnut and the wood was dry enough to turn without
>getting showered.
You heathen bahstid, you.
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[email protected] (Plebian) wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> Is there a 'best' season to fell a tree for use in woodworking? Is
> drying time affected? Does one season give wood better structural and
> visual qualities over another? tks
> Lawrence
In addition to the advice mentioned in other responses (i.e. fell in
fall/winter). Go girdle the trees you want now. The canopy will
pull a lot of water out of the logs over the summer.
I don't know if season affects color --- I'd doubt it but I suppose it
could. My knee-jerk reaction is that correct drying is most important
for structure.
hex
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[email protected] (hex) wrote:
> I don't know if season affects color --- I'd doubt it but I suppose it
> could. My knee-jerk reaction is that correct drying is most important
> for structure.
It will with Holly - can't recall which season to cut to get the whitest
white... otherwise it's a dirty/creamy white instead.
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Been about a million years but in Alaska AFAIR falling occurred in the
fall and winter until it got dang cold, which is rare in S.E.
panhandle.
>Is there a 'best' season to fell a tree for use in woodworking? Is
>drying time affected? Does one season give wood better structural and
>visual qualities over another? tks
>Lawrence
==
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to
you when you have forgotten the words.
And another reason for felling it in the winter....felling a tree is
sometimes very labor intensive, so you'll sweat less when it's cool outside.
This advice from a retired highway worker.
Have fun.
Joe
"George" <george@least> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Dormant season. Winter, for those outside the tropics, dry season
> elsewhere.
>
> Tree is in a conservation mode then, with its resources in the root
system,
> so less sugar for syrup and less unbound water to foster mold.
>
> Winter is also a good time for two other reasons - you can see better
where
> and how your selected tree intersects in the canopy with others, and it
> damages the ground less if you skid when frozen.
>
> http://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/TMU/publications.htm for all you want to know
>
>
> "Plebian" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > Is there a 'best' season to fell a tree for use in woodworking? Is
> > drying time affected? Does one season give wood better structural and
> > visual qualities over another? tks
> > Lawrence
>
>