I found out why modern lumber is so shit and full of knots and honestly knowing this and how society is, it will literally never get better again
>>84168792Share your findings anon
did the trees call a wildfire strike?
>>84168851https://youtu.be/WooqROwjUts?si=1xm7x39QIrMWK_c7Its all right here in this video, to sum it up if you dont want to watch>old lumber was all ancient trees, centuries old, with lots of growth on lower sections of the tree where branches had long ago fallen off and been grown over by the tree ring growth(the tree branches being what causes knots in the wood)>modern lumber trees are all around 50 years aged or so, where the growth rate begins to plateau and risk assessment (tree dying or forest fire or whatever) takes over, but also the amount of knots in the wood is still at its peakTheoretically we could tap into "protected" forests, but that would still just be a temporary supply of good lumber that would be quite rapidly depleted and then a return to the shit lumber because anything more than 50 year logging cycles isnt marketable to a shareholder primacy society
