Hey everybody, thanks for the great info.
Has anyone ever used one of those boring tools that foresters carry around with them for selecting trees before felling? If you could find the amount of sapwood at the base do you think it would be proportional to the amount at the tip?
I posted this awhile ago from Virtuvius. What do you all think of this statement from a long time ago?
"In felling a tree we should cut into the trunk of it to the very heart, and then leave it standing so that the sap may drain out drop by drop throughout the whole of it. In this way the use-less liquid which is within will run out through the sapwood instead of having it die in a mass of decay, thus spoiling the quality of the timber. Then and not till then, the tree being drained dry and the sap no longer dripping, let it be felled and it will be in the highest state of usefulness".
Last edited by mo; 07/31/09 04:09 PM.
