5 8 FOREST UTILIZATION 



2. Specific gravity times 8,000 times cordwood 



reducing factor equals the weight of a 

 cord of wood. Reason 128 cubic feet 

 . of water weigh 8,000 Ibs. ; a cord of wood 

 contains from 20 % to 85 % of wood, the 

 balance being air. 



3. Specific gravity air dry times 5,200 times 23 



equals the weight of 1,000 feet b. m. in 

 the log. Reason a green log has about 

 10 % bark, about 27 % of water, to be 

 removed by drying, and loses 33 % for 

 slabs and kerf in band sawing. Hence the 

 weight in 1,000 feet b. m. air dried and 

 band sawed lumber is only 0.9 times 

 0.73 times 0.67 of the weight of a log 

 scaling 1,000 feet b. m. Doyle. The 

 weight of a green log is 2.3 times the 

 weight of air dried lumber obtainable 

 from it by the band saw. For broad- 

 leafed species and for circular saws the 

 figure is higher than for conifers and 

 band saws. 



(f) Heavy planks do not dry as thoroughly as thin 



boards. 



(g) Weight determines freight and customs charges. 



Also adaptability to packages, floatability in- 

 flumes and rafts and possibility of loose driving. 

 Lumber freight rates from Asheville, N. C, are : 

 2pc per loo Ibs. to New York. 

 2$ l / 2 c per 100 Ibs. to Philadelphia. 

 I2 l / 2 c per loo Ibs. to Atlanta. 

 i8c per 100 Ibs. to Washington. 

 I4C per 100 Ibs. to Norfolk. 



Lumber freight rate from Portland, Ore., to Chi- 

 cago is about soc per 100 Ibs. 

 Steamer rate to Europe from Norfolk is I4C per 



LOO Ibs. of lumber. 

 The freight rate on logs for 50 miles is at least 



$5 per carload ; for 100 miles at least $6. 

 II. Hardness. 



By hardness is understood the resistance of the fibre to axe 



and saw worked vertically to the fibre. 

 Factors of hardness are: 



(a) Density; wide rings in oak and narrow rings in pine 



increase the hardness. 



(b) Incrustation; heartwood is harder than sapwood. 



(c) Moisture contents; dry wood is. on the whole, 



harder than green wood. With some broad- 

 leafed species of loose tissue (willows and cot- 



