Did some interesting calculations today.
I turned a green native cherry piece that ended up 4.75″ diameter x 15″ long. Afterwards, It weighed 9 lbs.
In order for it to air dry to 15% MC it will need to weigh about 4.8 lbs. That means that it needs to lose over 4 pints of water! When it reaches that weight I will know it’s air dried about as much as it’s going to. Just waxed the ends and stuck it out in the shed.
One table told me that native cherry at 15% has a density of about 31.3 lbs / cu ft.
That’s a lotta watta!
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I'm a little suspicious of those tables that give pounds per cubic foot to a tenth of a pound, but don't tell how much variation there was in the data the tables were assembled from. If 90 of 100 cherry samples are within 5% of 31.3 pcf, that's a pretty useful number. But if only 20 are within 5%, and only 70 are within 30%, you wouldn't want to use 31.3 pcf in any critical calculations. And just staring at the 31.3 won't tell you which case is more likely.
Most wood species grow in a wide variety of conditions. I would expect a fairly wide variety in measured physical characteristics, but I never see that variety reported in what are supposed to be references.
PS - I tried your link. It doesn't think I have cookies enabled. I couldn't find anywhere to tell it, "Yes I do. I don't have any trouble with the Taunton forums."
Edited 3/8/2004 4:24:44 PM ET by Uncle Dunc
Try it this way. I moved the search page to my site.
http://pages.sbcglobal.net/mike_in_katy/PlaneWood/material_name.htm
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Yes, that did work. Thank you kindly.
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