Trees

Price has nothing do do with it. Balsa is a hardwood - though it's very soft. Fir is softwood but is more expensive than pine which is more expensive than spruce (all softwoods). Two definitions for hardwood/softwood:

1) softwoods never lose their leaves/needles; hardwoods do when it gets cold.

2) softwood seeds fall to the ground; hardwood seeds are contained within something that drops from the tree (apple, chestnut, acorn, etc.)

Princess pine is also called club moss and ground pine. It is a moss that grows in hardwood forests. It is widely used to make Christmas wreaths and Christmas decorations and in floral arrangements. Go to GOOGLE and do a search and you will find all the information you could want including it's botanical name. Hope this helps! :)

Unlike some 'crop woods' such as pine, balsabalsabalsa wood cannot be grown in large groves or stands. Natural balsabalsabalsa wood trees propagate much like dandelions -- seeds are attached to soft tufts and carried off by the wind. If the seed lands in an area without direct sunlight, such as the dark canopy of the deep forest, it simply won't grow. AAA few lucky seeds may land in aaa sunlit patch or field and germinate, often to the chagrin of the farmer who owns the property. BalsaBalsaBalsa wood trees grow rapidly during their first five years, providing some shade to other plants with their oversized leaves. The ideal balsabalsabalsa wood tree for harvesting is between six and ten years old. After ten years, the inner core of the tree begins to rot and the outer layers become useless. AAA balsabalsabalsa wood tree is naturally fortified by water stored in large cells. There may only be one or two balsabalsabalsa wood trees in an entire acre of land, so harvesting is usually performed by one or two native workers with axes and carving knives for bark removal. The hewn trees are carried to the river and bundled for easier water transport to the processing plant. Barges carry the trees all the way to ports in the United States. Because raw balsabalsabalsa wood has such aaa high moisture content, it must be dried in aaa kiln for at least two weeks before it can be used commercially. The drying process creates an ultralight wood which is usually cut into sheets or round dowels. BalsaBalsaBalsa wood does have aaa grain, so consumers should be aware of what type of cut they need for aaa specific project. Some balsabalsabalsa wood is cut across the grain, which makes it suitable for carving but not for weight-bearing struts. Many of us may remember the toy balsabalsabalsa wood airplanes sold in stores, so it is easy to imagine how fragile balsabalsabalsa wood can be.

its actually very simple. first create a base with glue by making it anyway you want but remember it needs to be sturdy. i personally i create an open box and then make a run way down the center. secondly create the main tower by lining up the balsa wood side by side and gluing it together, i use a hot glue gun. make a hole in the center of each tower about 5cm from the top. this is where the axial to the throwing are will rest. third create the throwing arm by gluing some of the wood together in an l shape. remember if its not sturdy then your trebuchet is crap. take a pencil and glue it somewhere along the the arm perpendicularity. this is the axial. the pouch and rope for the ball is slightly difficult if you have big fingers but ill cover that later. now put everything together with the base on the ground (or table) and glue the towers perpendicularity to the base, insert the arm in to the holes you cut earlier. next add support to the main tower to keep it from shaking but making sure that the arm has a full range of motion just to be safe. after that then we need to attach that pouch i discussed earlier. take some cloth and poke a hole in each corner. feed some string through one side and some in the other so it looks like you have two triangles out of string opposite each other with the cloth in between. tie a loop in one end and leave the other alone. take the string without the loop and glue it to one end of the trebuchet. have the other end loop around the end of the wood. finally you need to attach weight to the opposite side of the arm. i just jam a paper clip in and get the weight to hang but there are better method that I'm working on developing. your done i believe, if i left something out ill re post with what i forgot. hope it helps!

it is right on top

Odd as it may seem, though balsa is the lightest of all known woods and is very soft, it is a hardwood. Woods are not categorized into hardwoods and softwoods not by the measured hardness or rigidity of the wood, but by the type of tree they come from.

There are many trees in the world that can be considered extremely common, such as the quaking aspen, the yellow birch, and the white ash. However, the tree that is becoming the most common of all is the Red Alder, because of its ability to grow in damaged soil.

criss cross patterns,or vertical

hard

Softwood burns quicker and pops it consists of certain trees. There are also trees which give hardwood which burns slower and doesn't pop its more dense.

The Pin oak (Quercus palustris) is widely used for landscaping as an ornamental or shade tree, as it is comparitively easy to transplant and grows more quickly than most oaks. Often found in the cultivated gardens of the UK, the Pin oak has earned the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. Marketed as red oak for general construction and firewood, it is a hard and heavy material. Various Native American tribes utilized the bark, to be used as a drink, for the treatment of intestinal pain. Historically, this hardwood has been used as wooden pins in building construction. Pin oak acorns are an important food source for wood ducks and mallards.

It's very hard.

Sapelle is a very hard wood ;in the past i have used

this wood for stairs.

The timber is dark reddish in colour ;your tools and cutters

must be very sharp ;

This timber is also very heavy.

Bluebell.

One Place wood pellets are made is Pa Pellets in Ulysses,Pa

Yes it will literally eat out the mortar joints causing structural damage eventually, remove and repoint joints.

Yes cedar is a very easy wood to work with as it is

quite soft thus easy to shape.

Very good for external work due to its properties;

used internally it makes a nice feature because of the

colour and grain structure.

All-ways use sharp tools as with all timber

Yes. Walnut however is much more valuable as a hardwood for projects and furniture building. Many lumber mills will pay high prices for whole trees. If the tree was rotten and it must be used as firewood then it needs to be cut,split and stacked for a few months before burning.

oak is a very hard wood

Any time of the year is a good time to pick Oranges in the state of Arizona. During the late Summer, the best Oranges are produced, but they grow year round.

It's probably better just to err on the side of caution. Alt. answer: As long as we're talking about pinon nuts (CO and NM), you can pick them yourself, or buy them from someone who's gone out and done just that! The shelled pine nuts found in big stores are from China, generally.

It's really difficult. White poplars are a very invasive species and they will sucker even when they haven't been disturbed. If you are able to kill the tree (i.e. it's on your property) you will have to soak the stump with herbicide after cutting it down or the remaining roots will send up 100s, even 1000s of suckers.

If the tree is on a neighbour's property, you can resign yourself to endless weeding, particularly in spring. Soaking any root ends you pull up in vegetable oil may help. Spraying suckers with a hot solution of vinegar, dishwashing soap and salt may help. Mulching over the area deeply might control it for a while. Unfortunately, though, white poplar is a really difficult species to manage in urban areas.

Good luck!

Yes, it is, but not quite sure why.