On Tuesday, August 11, 2020 at 3:47:16 AM UTC-7, Christopher Tidy wrote:
Hi folks,

I know this isn't quite metalwork, but is it a shop-related question and nothing to do with politics, so here goes...

If you take a piece of light softwood, such as pine or fir, and keep it submerged under water for a really long time - months or years - does it eventually absorb enough water so that it no longer floats?

In Lake Washington, there's some old-growth logs that basically DID sink; a few that
are near shore have a few percent of wood above the water, The area was logged, and the
lake used for transport, around 1900.

I'm told that Salt Lake had some rail trestle timbers recovered in recent decades, that hadn't
rotted.