Re: [IAWA Forum] Wood cores

From: Peter Kitin <kitin@ffpri.affrc.go.jp>
Subject: Re: [IAWA Forum] Wood cores
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 09:58:19 +0900

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Ski waxes are more familiar to me than surf wax but perhaps it's not so good
to apply some of it to increment borers. There might be some better
lubricant, people with experience in dendrochronology could say..



Peter Kitin

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----- Original Message -----
From: <felling@hawaii.edu>
To: <iawa@COF.ORST.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 9:22 PM
Subject: [IAWA Forum] Wood cores


> Aloha everyone,
>
> I am investigating the variation in the wood anatomy of
> populations of native Acacias here in Hawaii.  Some of the wood I
> am collecting is very hard and I am having difficulty collecting wood
> cores.  I am using a Haglof increment borer (10" long steel bit, 3-
> thread, 0.2" width, made of case-hardened steel).  I lubricate the bit
> and extractor with surf wax (my Hawaiian adaptation) before boring
> the tree.  Some of the wood is so hard that I have problems getting
> the wood cores.  For example: one tree did not want to let loose of
> the borer.  I tried all sorts of tactics to extract it (ice, WD-40
> lubricant, muscle power) but could not remove it from the tree so I
> broke the borer close to the trunk and kissed that sample goodbye.
> I can only surmise that heat produced during the coring (which was
> not easy!) caused the borer to expand and it got stuck in the tree.
> My other common problem is that once I have extracted
> my borer (I now take it out of the tree once it becomes difficult to
> continue to turn the borer), I cannot get the core out of the borer!
> My extractor bends, I have to pound the extractor into the borer,
> and then I have difficulty pulling it out.  Also, some of the wood
> core pops out of the end of the borer and gets stuck there.
> Does any one have any suggestions?  This wood is a far
> cry from pine!
> Thank you!    Candace Lutzow-Felling
> ****************************
> Candace Lutzow-Felling
> Botany Department and Ecology, Evolution, & Conservation
> Biology Program
> 3190 Maile Way, Room 101
> University of Hawaii, Honolulu 96822
> (808)956-3925
> felling@hawaii.edu
>
>
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> ****************************
> Candace Felling
> Botany Department
> University of Hawaii
>
>
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