by Jana L | Feb 25, 2022 | Glossary of Terms, Glossary of Terms -A, Uncategorized
Mean age of the trees comprising a forest, crop, or stand. In forests, the mean age of dominant (and sometimes codominant) trees is taken. The plantation age is generally taken from the year the plantation was begun without adding the age of the nursery stock. Of a...
by Jana L | Feb 25, 2022 | Glossary of Terms, Glossary of Terms -A, Uncategorized
Lumber or other wood products that have been either dried by exposure to natural atmospheric conditions outdoors or in an unheated shed or dried to equilibrium with the surrounding atmosphere. Moisture content of air-dried wood fiber depends on relative humidity,...
by Jana L | Feb 25, 2022 | Glossary of Terms, Glossary of Terms -A, Uncategorized
A reference to the cutting direction; as in planing a board surface, such that splitting ahead of the cutter follows the grain direction downward into the wood below the projected cutting surface. Also, generally perpendicular to the grain direction, across the...
by Jana L | Feb 25, 2022 | Glossary of Terms, Glossary of Terms -A, Uncategorized
An older stage of decay readily recognized as wood that has become punky, soft, spongy, stringy, rinkshaked, pitted, or crumbly.
by Jana L | Feb 25, 2022 | Glossary of Terms, Glossary of Terms -A, Uncategorized
A substance in which two surfaces are held together by inter-facial forces, which may consist of valence forces or interlocking action or both.
