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Index of Subjects --Apple-Mail-1--1045378125 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii James, Try Wikipedia for the terms you need. For example = <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boom_%28sailing%29> Not guaranteed to be correct but it's a start. Bob Stevens On 2012-09-27, at 2:25 PM, James W. Wolford wrote: > 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! >=20 > Begin forwarded message: >=20 >> 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 >>=20 >> Hi Paul, >> Your reference to spars must then be a lost tourist who got on = the wrong train of thought; an oaken train. >> =20 >> 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 >>=20 >> Hi Dave >> Did someone say oak was used for spars? >> Never saw that. >> Have a nice day >> Paul >>=20 >> From: David & Alison Webster <dwebster@glinx.com> >> To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca=20 >> Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2012 9:30:27 PM >> Subject: Re: [NatureNS] old oak >>=20 >> 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 >>=20 >> You started a very interesting discussion Heather >> Nothing anyone said rules out a 400 year old oak. Documented=20 >> 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=20 >> where it was easy to do - PEI for example, no stones, hills not too = steep=20 >> and lots of horses and a good demand.=20 >> I would be susprised if you could find one there over 200 years old.=20= >> 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 >>=20 >>=20 >> From: Heather Drope <heather.drope@ns.sympatico.ca> >> To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca=20 >> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2012 2:15:41 PM >> Subject: [NatureNS] old oak >>=20 >> 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 >>=20 >> We do not see nature with our eyes, >> but with our understandings and our hearts. >> W. Hazlett >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >> 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 >>=20 >>=20 >> 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 >>=20 >=20 --Apple-Mail-1--1045378125 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii <html><head></head><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; = -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; = ">James,<div>Try Wikipedia for the terms you need. For example = <<a = href=3D"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boom_%28sailing%29">http://en.wikiped= ia.org/wiki/Boom_%28sailing%29</a>></div><div>Not guaranteed to be = correct but it's a start.</div><div>Bob = Stevens</div><div><br><div><div>On 2012-09-27, at 2:25 PM, James W. = Wolford wrote:</div><br class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote = type=3D"cite"><div 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"