Is wood from Ficus trees hard wood or soft?
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There are so many types of ficus trees. I know that the Ficus racemosa (from china) can not.\nIis the only species that loggers do not cut as the wood has neither value as construction nor fire wood, and besides, it destroys the chain saws.\nMost ficus wood is too pliable and of little value in home constuction. It is used for hoops, garlands, ornaments etc. but not much else.
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Collenchyma is strengthened by pectin so the cell wall is thickened unevenly.Parenchyma mostly found on the young shoots or leaves.They don't have cell wall.Sclerenchyma is strengthened by lignin.So,the strongest is Sclerenchyma because they cell wall thickened evenly not like collenchyma
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It is the trunk of a Rock Elm (old school, very rare) or White Ash (same thing in modern day baseball bats).  Trees with a straighter grain will fetch a higher premium.  Waves in the grain will be used for low end sticks, junior sticks, or baseball bats.
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Spalted Maple\n\n\nMaple wood with a dark veins caused by a pattern of rot or bacteria in the wood that once stabilized often looks like a pen and ink drawing through the wood.
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Unfortunately cottonwood is not a very good firewood, (burns fast, like paper) unless you live on the prairie and can't be too picky.  So to answer your question-directly; Almost no tree company will cut a single tree for free, even if it was red oak. Even if it were perfect limb-free mahogany  99.99% of the sawmills in america will not touch wood from anywhere near a house.
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some are soft while others are semi-solid.  The recipe usually does not specify the consistency.
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We are dealing with an illusion caused by grain size and moisture content here.  In fact sand is quite hard because it is made up of individual rock and mineral grains.  Limestone and quartz are pretty hard materials.  If a sand is damp, or has very small rounded grains, it can feel soft to the hand however.\n\nClays on the other hand are soft because they are created by the chemical weathering of other minerals (such as pyroxene or feldspar) and the individual clay units are microscopic in size.  Clays usually contain a high proportion of water in their structure as well (it can be as high as 70%).\n\nWhen a geologist in the field can't make out the whether a rock is a siltstone (clastic) or clay (chemical) because the grain sizes are too small to see, a simple test is to break off a small fragment put it between ones teeth.  If its chewy and soft, its a clay.  If its hard and gritty, its a silt. \n(Warning - experts only folks.  Some rocks contain poisonous minerals so don't go around randomly tasting rocks.)
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one's hard and one's soft
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You can't find one that easily, I'ld advise you to talk to a realy good carpenter whose been a carpenter for more than 10 years and ask him to go through your wood list with you and tell you which types of wood absorb faster or more than the others.
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It's simply a kind of wood, from the cork oak.\n\n"Portugal accounts for more than 50% of the world's total cork production. It is the climate and soil types of this region that keep the trees growing. Although cork trees are also grown in some Asian countries, only cork harvested from the Mediterranean region is considered commercial quality."\nSource: http://www.thewineman.com/cork101.htm
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hard wood and semen =)
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Sounds a lot like Ailanthus altissima, the "Tree of Heaven". It is from China and is considered an invasive species, and is common in urban areas of the east. If it is a male tree, it should have a disagreeable odor.
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It's difficult to find a plywood any thicker than 3/4", hardwood or softwood. In dimensional lumber measurements, 1" is usually referred to as 5/4...but that's not plywood.  You might try WoodPlanet at www.woodplanet.com ... They have 1" thick sheets of 4'x8' hard maple plywood, A/A grade, good on both sides, which sounds like something you might be looking for.
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We would make skim boards out of plywood (about 25 years ago). Get a piece of plywood, cut out the shape you would like. Round the edges of the board, cover with resin (one side at a time). If you'd like you can use fiberglass w/ the resin, but its not really necessary. Sand down the rough edges and you're ready to go. Skim boards today have core made of resins and are lighter than plywood. The height of the board is about the height of a body board (4 ft). The width varies on the shape.
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There is a word Heartwood in xylology.If you mean so,it is not possible becuse it is totally resistant due to deposition of lignin and resins etc.
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I hope they all pick a good fire wood type, I'm getting low on fire wood :-)
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Balsa wood is lighter and finely grained so it is less likely to break than more coarsely grained woods like fir.