Haplo
ArboristSite Operative
What species would you put on your top 10 list of best hinging wood, and what species have the poorest quality hinge wood?
aw come on, alder is fun, it holds well enough to allow some stupidity with swinging, but you have that super chair prone to make it interesting lol...Douglas-fir has very long and strong fibers and is very forgiving. I feel very privileged to have learned to cut on it. Worst I've cut has already been noted above, sycamore, with its short, weak, brittle fibers. I am also not a fan of cottonwood, or red alder.
would anyone put shagbark hickory near the top of their list?
It’s the best of hardwood trees in the U.S in my opinion. It’s just not close to western evergreen softwood species like Douglas Fir, Ponderosa Pine & even Alder and western red Cedar. I think part of it has to do with the trees themselves, leans and back weight from huge, expansive crowns pull hardwood fibers multiple directions and cause the grain structure to grow... Interestingly, to say the least. The hinges break earlier due to shorter fibers and extra stress with multiple loadings. A lot of eastern and midwestern fallers use the conventional “farmer” face that doesn’t help things in comparison to the guys west of the Rockies that predominately use a Humboldt and gapped faces and that has huge effects as to how the hinge acts as the tree falls.
@TheDarkLordChinChin (Hickory Species) I would bet some of your wood tool handles are made of it.
You think a humboldt is better for hardwoods than a conventional? You dont think the fibers being forced to break earlier leads to more barber chairs?
Just curious.
if done properly, the fibers will sever, rather then break, the motion changes from a bending tipping motion to falling vertically as the face closes up on a humboldt, its one way to keep fiber pull to a minimum.You think a humboldt is better for hardwoods than a conventional? You dont think the fibers being forced to break earlier leads to more barber chairs?
Just curious.
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