cypress tree removal

[glens]

Water has a specific gravity of 1.00 so the wood having one of 0.48 means it's 48% as dense as water. I don't know if that's "green" or what. Anyway, since water weighs (nominally) 62 pounds per cubic foot, 48% of that would be 30 pounds per cubic foot.

 

[joe]

It's 48 lbs per cubic foot.

Joe

 

[glens]

If that's the case then the specific gravity is 0.77? Maybe it has something to do with the moisture content or something.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific_gravity

 

[Gord]

Lawson Cypress? the form looks similar to them, likely something closely related.

it's extremely light wood when it's dry if that is what it is.

 

[frans]

Here is I.D. information on this tree. Posted as a PDF.

 

[treesandsurf]

frans, that was a great pic to see. I grew up in bodega bay surfing and working at the surf shop out there. I've climbed some of the cypress trees around there. living in hawaii right now and was just nice to see a pic from my little home town.

did you see the big euk that fell over by the ranger station at salmon creek. was there for like three months. passed it everyday on the way to the surf.

good vid testing the friction devices, fun to watch.

jp

 

[Lumberjack]

If Joe is giving the green weight, and Glenns is giving the specific weight dry, the difference in the 2 numbers is roughly 8.25 quarts of water per cubic foot. Seems like quite a bit to me, but I have never measured such a thing.

Glens is spot on, whatever that specific gravity is referring to, it weighs near-bouts 30 lbs a cubic foot, and if Joe is right, then Glenns is once again right, the specific gravity would be roughly .774.

Safe to say that Glens is a numbers kinda guy.
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[glens]

Next time you see a 5 gallon bucket, ask yourself how many cubic feet you could stuff in it.

Then realize that a cubic foot contains 7.5 gallons, so it would only be 2/3 of one in that bucket!

Maybe 28% moisture content (8.25 quarts / 7.5 gallons possible) isn't too much at all.