298 TIMBER AND TIMBER TREES. 
[CHAP. 
considered one of the best woods for working that the 
carpenter can take in hand. 
There are many experiments on the strength of the 
Kauri Pine, and the first to be noticed are on specimens 
taken from the butt-end of a log that 
was fully 60 feet in length and 22 
A plank 2 inches thick 
having been taken out of the middle, 
it was cut to produce six pieces of 
2 X 2 X 84 inches, four upon one side 
of the centre or pith and two upon the 
FIG. 33. 
other (Fig. 33) 
inches square. 
The centre piece was excluded from 
the test as being of too weak a nature to bear com- 
parison with the rest of the wood. 
TABLE CLX.—Kauri (NEW ZEALAND). 
Transverse Experiments, 
Deflections. Total Weight F 
r Weight 
h 2 ig 
Number | withthe | After the| At | requrea | SE [to +] required 
specimen. | 2PPparatus weight | the crisis | to break && | specific 2 square 
weighing ‘was of, each oo | gravity inch 
390 lbs. | removed. | breaking. | piece. 600. mee 
Inches. Inch. Inches. Ibs. Ibs. 
1d | 125 | ‘oo | 3:75 | 818 | 525] 934| 131-25 
2c | 125 | "15 | 425 | 875 | 529] go2| 132-25 
36 115 ‘10 4°20 820 529 | 930 | 132'25 
4 a 1°05 ‘00 3°75 750 520} 865 | 130°00 
5a! 1'l5 i Ce) 3°40 760 515 | 885 | 128-75 
66 1°50 15 4°15 870 562 | 929 | 140°50 
Total .| 7°35 "50 | 23°50 | 4893 | 3180 | 5535 | 795°00 
Average) 1°225 083 3°916 815°5| 530] 917 | 132°50 
Remarks.—These specimens broke with a moderate length of fracture. 
E = 790810, 
S=2141. 
The table shows that transversely the strongest 
point was much nearer to the more recently-formed con- 
