common tree uses
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Common Tree Uses. Red Maple. Light colored wood furniture, paneling, moldings, doors, turnings, and musical instruments. about 25 percent less hard than sugar maple. Black Cherry. Most economically valued wood in PA Reddish brown wood and grains Used for veneer - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Common Tree Uses
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Red Maple
• Light colored wood• furniture, paneling, moldings, doors, turnings,
and musical instruments. • about 25 percent less hard than sugar maple
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Black Cherry• Most economically valued wood in PA• Reddish brown wood and grains• Used for veneer• furniture, cabinets, paneling, moldings,
flooring, musical instruments, carvings, and turnings
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Northern Red Oak
• Second most valuable• high-quality furniture, cabinets, paneling,
moldings, construction, coffins, and floors
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White Oak
• Used for barrels• Same as red oak, but better for outside uses
including ships and barrels because it’s impervious to water
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Yellow Poplar
• furniture, veneer, cabinets, doors, paneling, plywood, turnings, and carvings
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Sugar Maple• strong, shock-resistant wood• solid furniture, moldings, veneer, paneling,
tabletops, cabinets, woodenware, rifle stocks, handrails, doors, bowling alleys, and floors
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Chestnut Oak
• Often marketed as white oak• Bark is rich in tannins, used for leather• Similar to white oak uses
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White Ash• very strong and shock resistant• baseball bats, hockey sticks, boat oars, and
tool handles • Fine furniture, paneling, flooring, doors,
moldings, turnings, and cabinets
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American Beech
• Difficult to work, tasteless• furniture, flooring, paneling, brush handles,
ties, and food container
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Hickory• 5 types• Wood is difficult to work due to hardness• flooring, tool handles, ladders, dowels, and
sporting goods.
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Latin names
• Maples- Acer• Oaks- Quercus• Pines- Pinus• Birches- Betula• Hickories- Carya• Beech- Fagus• Ash- Fraxinus• Cherry- Prunus
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G:R Ratio
• Net Growth to removal• A G/R ratio greater than 1 indicates growth in
inventory outpaces removals – resource management within that period could be
continued without depleting inventory, and thus is considered sustainable
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Cords
• 128 cubic feet• 4 feet high, 8 feet long, and 4 feet deep• Or the equivalent