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European wood species for sawmills

Wood species · Beginner

A beginner's tour of the main European sawmill species: softwoods, diffuse-porous and ring-porous hardwoods, valuable hardwoods. Learn how to read density, shrinkage and durability tables with their regions and bases, and the basics of species identification.

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  1. 1. Softwoods I: Norway spruce, Scots pine and silver fir 14 min
  2. 2. Softwoods II: European larch and Douglas fir 13 min
  3. 3. Diffuse-porous hardwoods I: beech, birch and sycamore maple 13 min
  4. 4. Diffuse-porous hardwoods II: poplar, alder, linden and hornbeam 12 min
  5. 5. Ring-porous hardwoods I: oak, ash and elm 13 min
  6. 6. Ring-porous and valuable hardwoods II: robinia, sweet chestnut, walnut and cherry 14 min
  7. 7. Comparing species: reading density, shrinkage and durability tables 15 min
  8. 8. Species identification basics and the limits of this course 12 min

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