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WHEN TO CUT DOWN TREES
Is it real I heve to cut down the trees when the moon is going down? In case of affermative answer, what is the why? Yes, there is a connection. When the moon is full, there is more sap in the wood. This may be better or worse for building, depending on opinion... Two quotes, for example: "Workers who followed traditional methods cut the mesquite tree posts, center beams, and the rest of the wood used for making the jacales during a full moon. They believed any part of the tree cut during the new crescent-shaped moon retained the sap and so attracted insects, which left a powdery mess that rotted the wood. Houses made of such wood would not last long." http://www.texancultures.utsa.edu/ra...chapter011.htm "Napoleon I. directed that the felling of naval timber should take place only from November 1 to March 15, and during the decrease of the moon, on account of the rapid decay of timber, through the fermentation of its sap, if cut at other seasons." http://72.1911encyclopedia.org/D/DR/DRY_ROT.htm Hope this helps. regards Marcus |
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Marcus Williamson writes
"Workers who followed traditional methods cut the mesquite tree posts, center beams, and the rest of the wood used for making the jacales during a full moon. They believed any part of the tree cut during the new crescent-shaped moon retained the sap and so attracted insects, which left a powdery mess that rotted the wood. Houses made of such wood would not last long." http://www.texancultures.utsa.edu/ra...chapter011.htm "Napoleon I. directed that the felling of naval timber should take place only from November 1 to March 15, and during the decrease of the moon, on account of the rapid decay of timber, through the fermentation of its sap, if cut at other seasons." http://72.1911encyclopedia.org/D/DR/DRY_ROT.htm Hope this helps. It suggests that it's not current practice. Probably due to it being myth, although the cutting timber when the sap is down (winter) is reasonable. -- Oz This post is worth absolutely nothing and is probably fallacious. Note: soon (maybe already) only posts via despammed.com will be accepted. |
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WHEN TO CUT DOWN TREES
Gordon Couger wrote in message news:3e5f17a9_3@newsfeed... there is a saying I cannot quite remember about the value of a peck of March dust. Basically if you can get dust in march it means you have the possibility of a decent seedbed, shortage of water is not even thought of as a problem. It's a lot cheaper to lose a crop to dry weather over here than it is to wet weather. On my wife's place in west Texas the dry land cotton was dusted in. For those of you that get rain regularly that is planted in dry ground and wait for a rain to bring it up. When it got a shower to get it up at wind evaporated the moisture before it could meet the moisture a few inches below the surface and the cotton sprouted and died. I have had the happen a time or two as well. It won't happen again on that place it will have the drip irrigation installed it by the end of next week, if it doesn't rain. funnily enough we have the phrase "puddled in" where things are sort of wet and the seed bed isn't really good enough but you know fine well that it isn't going to get any better. It should take the yield from 300 pounds per acre to better than 2,000 pounds per acre. Even here we had one chap who did a bit of irrigation, just to ensure grass got the absolute optimum during April/May, and he showed an economic return. Then the Environment agency started asking if he had an abstraction licence and that would have made it uneconomic. Your increase is impressive. -- Jim Webster "The pasture of stupidity is unwholesome to mankind" 'Abd-ar-Rahman b. Muhammad b. Khaldun al-Hadrami' Gordon |
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