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Harvesting wood in winter on a waning moon

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willie:

--- Quote from: Eric Garza on January 07, 2023, 09:06:05 am ---

Moon wood, harvested during the waning moon, has more bound water in its interior. This means that it contracts more tightly during the drying process, it only shrinks to a marginal degree. This makes the wood denser, more resistant to compression and also more resistant to invasive fungi, insects and voracious flames. The advantage moon wood has in terms of density ranged from 5-7% over several thousand samples. From a technical point of view, this is a significant improvement compared to “non-moon wood”.[/i]

Thoughts?

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was the tree fatter in volume during the waning moon?
if you cut a stave now, say 1/4 of the trunk, and another from the same tree, just like it (another quarter of the trunk), two weeks later, don't they have the same amount of "wood" in them after they dry?

now if you milled a board out of a wet cant from tree that was fatter on account of the waning moon, then compared it to an identical size board that was milled from a drier cant taken from the tree two weeks later,......the one milled from the drier cant has more wood.


--- Quote from: Jim Davis on January 07, 2023, 12:34:08 pm ---I will admit and can provide scientific evidence that the best bow wood is cut withing two weeks of a new moon.

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lol.  any time of month is "within two weeks of a full moon"

Jim Davis:
 (-P )-w( (lol) ;D

George Tsoukalas:
Removing bark from winter cut white woods will make you scream at  the moon.
Jawge

simk:
This is very ancient science. Even today many timber construction companys here around harvest after the ancient moon calendar. There's harvesting dates for every desired wood proerties: thers days where the wood does not rot, or not check or not burn, and so on... Maybe its only a marketing thing, maybe its a truth behind...I will not judge about that 🤗

https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.thoma.at/cms/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/thoma-mondkalender-2022-2023.pdf&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwiF9I-l7rr8AhUYhv0HHToyAS4QFnoECAsQAg&usg=AOvVaw1CS8adVM1iGhOvvGPU13Kc

Eric Garza:

--- Quote from: simk on January 09, 2023, 11:36:44 am ---This is very ancient science...

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I can't read that language, but definitely interesting that at least some companies take this seriously. I wonder if there are resources available in English?

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