On 1/10/2016 10:59 PM, Martin Eastburn wrote:
Look it up yourself. Redwood is considered both structural for beams
and a hard wood. If the wood is old - e.g. sawed months or years ago
it is hard to nail through. Not much sap inside so it lasts and lasts.
Being a cone bearing tree doesn't make it a softwood.
yes it does. Just like balsa is considered a hardwood. Technically
speaking, deciduous = hardwood, conifer=softwood.
That has nothing to do with it's actual hardness since balsa is one of
the softest woods.
Just like the
mighty oak decays faster than the fast growing popular.
And have you ever built a deck with redwood and one of pine or oak ?
pine fails fastest, then the oak then after more time the redwood takes
a refinishing and resealing.
I had a back deck that had 6x6 posts that were 22 feet long (tall). The
deck attached to the ground floor of the house and the outside on top of
these tall posts. After 17 years the posts were good as new and
had sharp square corners. Softwood would melt away.
We were getting 60" in low rain years, 30 when it didn't rain and over
100 when it poured. It was a rain forest with moss and fern all over.
http://www.calredwood.org/
Some call it soft because they don't use it. Some call it hard because
the experts call it that way. And the lumber stores call it that way.
It is a different species than conus or pines. Different rings and
structure.
Martin
On 1/10/2016 4:11 PM, krw wrote:
On Sat, 9 Jan 2016 21:59:57 -0600, Martin Eastburn
wrote:
Remember there are three species of Redwood. You are taking about the
Sequoia sempervirens is the coastal 350 feet + tall. The inland are
shorter but have massive trunks - drive through and live in... they are
the or giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) 280 feet + with 26 feet
diameter trunks and the new one : Metasequoia glyptostroboides, the dawn
redwood the shrimp a mere 200 feet.
All have subspecies and are complex in nature. Most people don't
acknowledge that Redwood is Structural wood and a hardwood.
Huh? Redwood is a conifer, thus a softwood. ...or is there some
variety of Redwood that's crossed the line?
--
Jeff