Sadly no, I teach woodwork for a living to high school children, the majority of whom merely waste the resource and I recycle it into firewood, and have no knowledge of the person you are refering to. Sorry.
Neil Canberra Australia ----- Original Message ----- From: Hakan Falk To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 9:31 AM Subject: Re: [biofuel] Timber species I agree with you and my comment about teak was more of an attempt to joke, than a serious suggestion. Stupid joke that I regret when I read it after the posting. You have several slow growing softwood trees, but hardly fast growing hardwood. Since you know a lot about wood management, maybe you can help me with one thing that irritates me. I can not remember the name of the German around 200 years ago, who developed the embryo to the modern sustainable forest management. I read some 120 year old books about it on my mothers family estate around 30 years ago. It was very interesting and the start of the Swedish sustainable forest management around 150 years ago. I have seen his name at a later occasion but cannot remember it. I guess that you studied the subject and maybe know his name. Hakan At 08:26 AM 11/25/2002 +1100, you wrote: >I merely make the point to clarify timber species, however huon pine is a >Gymnosperm ie a softwood but is an incredibly slow growing tree. My point >was that the fact that they make a tree faster growing does not change its >botanical class. BTW I am in Australia and we are going to pine pallets >here after many years using native Angiosperm timber. Radiata pine a >native of Canada is our preferred plantation timber, maturing in 30 yrs. > >Neil >Canberra >Australia > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Hakan Falk > To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 8:16 AM > Subject: Re: [biofuel] Back Online > > > > Niel, > > I thought by translation from Swedish that it is usually direct related to > the size of the yearly addition of thickness and the age of the tree. This > does not necessary translates to the hardness of the wood, but in many > cases it does. What it does translate to is the time it takes for the tree > to grow. Teak, Oak, Jacaranda, Balsa, etc is hardwood and Pine is > softwood. > I doubt that the American pallets are made of Balsa, but if they are it is > equally wrong and also totally useless. Maybe it is a translation error > here and then I apologize. > > The point was the time it takes to produce the wood, not the hardness. If > American pallets are made of a fast growing hardwood, I must have made a > mistake. > > Hakan > > > At 07:17 AM 11/25/2002 +1100, you wrote: > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Hakan Falk > > To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com > > Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 3:37 AM > > Subject: Re: [biofuel] Back Online > > <snippo> > > > > > > Even the fast growing teak, developed mainly in > > central and south America, takes at least 2-4 the time to mature as > pine > > trees and it is questionable if it is still hardwood. The fast growing > > teak > > is softer, but still have the natural defense against humidity and > insects. > > > > Hakan, hardness has nothing to do with whether a tree is a hardwood or > > a softwood, this is really a misnomer. Balsa wood is a hardwood. > > It is all related to whether the tree is pored or nonpored. With > > hardwoods being pored. In fact the correct terminology is Angiosperm, > > seeds in fruit, broadleaves, pored timber (hardwoods) and Gymnosperms, > > naked seeds in cones, usually narrow leaves, non pored timber (softwoods) > > Neil > > Canberra > > > > > > <snippo> > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Sponsor > > ADVERTISEMENT > > > > > > > > > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > > > > Biofuels list archives: > > http://archive.nnytech.net/ > > > > Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. > > To unsubscribe, send an email to: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! 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