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Re: Re: Re: White Vs Red Oak
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Posted by Bret on April 11, 2004 at 04:23:48 from (64.19.82.119):
In Reply to: Re: Re: White Vs Red Oak posted by Brian G. NY on April 07, 2004 at 13:32:01:
Larch, tammarack to us NYer's, is a truly underated wood. Fast growing, straight, heavy, medium hard green, hard when dry, good firewood without too much pitch for a conifer, pretty rot resitant after it's dried down, and ugly so nobody cries about you cutting them. We used it for stable flooring. The old timers said something about the reaction between horse pee and the chemicals in the wood acting a preservative. All I know is it lasts good in that application. No, it's not as strong as white oak, but if you use the oak for the structural members on the bridge and the tammarack for decking, (we always used 3-3 1/2 inch bridge decking), you'd be in good shape. Elm is another underated wood in the sense that it will last forever if it's kept wet. Yup, wet. It's what the old guys made mill hubs out of that sat in water for years. Not sure if that was common white elm or green or what. Too much of this knowledge has been lost.
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