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--Apple-Mail-7--1055168470 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Dave or Paul or anyone, my trusty dictionary was no help in differentiating between a spar and a mast or boom or ? Can you please help? I am not at all shy about displaying my sheltered life! Cheers from Jim in Wolfville, and have a great Autumn! Begin forwarded message: > From: David & Alison Webster <dwebster@glinx.com> > Date: September 27, 2012 8:57:56 AM ADT > To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > Subject: Re: [NatureNS] old oak > Reply-To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > > Hi Paul, > Your reference to spars must then be a lost tourist who got on > the wrong train of thought; an oaken train. > > Last evening I came across an interesting item about wood in an > old Smithsonian: Question-- What do you do for termites ? Answer-- > Give them small wooden sandwiches. > Yt, DW > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Paul MacDonald > To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2012 10:02 PM > Subject: Re: [NatureNS] old oak > > Hi Dave > Did someone say oak was used for spars? > Never saw that. > Have a nice day > Paul > > From: David & Alison Webster <dwebster@glinx.com> > To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2012 9:30:27 PM > Subject: Re: [NatureNS] old oak > > Hi Paul & All, Sept 26, 2012 > Someone who knows about the days of iron men & wooden ships may > know better but I think the spars (not masts) were usually made of > Spruce. Oak was for ribs, brackets & planking but not for > superstructure. > And on the subject of slow growing trees some good examples can > be found on the barrens between the Clyburn River in Cape Breton > and Two-Island Lake. I camped there a few times, in a previous > life, and one dead hip-high spruce tree about 100 years old and 10 > mm diameter would boil a pot of water for oxo or tea; almost solid > wood. > Getting back to Oak, it may sound counter-intuitive, but wood > from a rapidly growing Oak (probably all trees) is stronger than > wood from a slow growing tree. I suspect this is because wood from > a tree with wider rings is more supple, i.e. can bend without > breaking whereas wood with mostly thick-walled cells is more brittle. > Yt, Dave Webster, Kentville > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Paul MacDonald > To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2012 3:37 PM > Subject: Re: [NatureNS] old oak > > You started a very interesting discussion Heather > Nothing anyone said rules out a 400 year old oak. Documented > trees 300 plus leave quite a bit of variation possible in the > dying age. The half life will be much less of course but ones > at the end of the scale might easily get over the 400. > Oak in the 1800 - 1875 period of wooden ships were sought > wherever they could be found. The beautiful fall foliage made it > hard for them to hide! And the lads were good at handling big logs. > They didn't get spars at the building supply store. > They removed most of the large oak at that period especially > where it was easy to do - PEI for example, no stones, hills not too > steep > and lots of horses and a good demand. > I would be susprised if you could find one there over 200 years old. > And to see some of the things I see in the deep woods make me > believe there wasn't much of NS left to chance for a big tree. > Spruce or oak! > Have a nice fall > Paul > > > From: Heather Drope <heather.drope@ns.sympatico.ca> > To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2012 2:15:41 PM > Subject: [NatureNS] old oak > > As we speak, it could be being up rooted. I had not realized how > big around this tree was before the land was sold or I would have > documented the size for the Big Tree listing on NatureNS web site. > Too late now.. I am not going to trespass on to this land. > Heather.. > Heather Drope > Nova Scotia Wild Flora Society > www.nswildflora.ca > 902-440-5032 > > We do not see nature with our eyes, > but with our understandings and our hearts. > W. Hazlett > > > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2012.0.2221 / Virus Database: 2441/5289 - Release Date: > 09/24/12 > > > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2012.0.2221 / Virus Database: 2441/5292 - Release Date: > 09/25/12 > --Apple-Mail-7--1055168470 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=US-ASCII <html><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "> Dave or Paul or anyone, my trusty dictionary was no help in = differentiating between a spar and a mast or boom or ? Can you = please help? I am not at all shy about displaying my sheltered = life! Cheers from Jim in Wolfville, and have a great = Autumn!<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type=3D"cite"><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: = </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px = Helvetica">David & Alison Webster <<a = href=3D"mailto:dwebster@glinx.com">dwebster@glinx.com</a>></font></div>= <div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: = </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px = Helvetica">September 27, 2012 8:57:56 AM ADT</font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a = href=3D"mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca">naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</a></font>= </div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: = 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Re: [NatureNS] old = oak</b></font></div><div style=3D"m