Wood is the most reliable and easy to handle material. In addition great demand for forest and timber in construction can be explained and their availability – the Russian Federation has always been ochenbogata forest. Kept up to date house of logs, history that is hundreds of years, are the best confirmation of the unique characteristics of wood. Wooden houses – the most environmentally friendly place to live. So it is understandable that the age-old tradition of wooden Russian architecture largely remained until modern times. About the construction of wooden houses, and the widespread use of a variety of wooden structures in recent write a lot, but about the process of harvesting a tree tell very little.
But this complex and crucial stage of the technological chain determines the final result: the strength and durability of a log home in many ways depend on the quality of the tree. So, what to be aware of the essential parameters of the tree? First, a couple of words about the most commonly used hardwood and softwood. According to established practice in the construction of the tree often use of spruce and pine. Straight smooth trunk, absence of hollows, a very small number of branches, all this makes it easy to shoot down logs in the walls, high gummosity of wood provides a good resistance rotting. Also, more and more applications are cedar and larch. Under the cedar, though, mean cedar pine. Sometimes used such material as aspen. Not often build houses and baths of linden, oak, beech and alder.
Here and there mastered fir. However, the life of a wooden house depends not only on the correct wood species. Strong influence on life and has the very quality of wood used, which depends on many factors. Key among them – time and place of harvesting and drying methods. An important criterion of quality is its density. Usually it is defined by the area, where people were logging, and more precisely, climate the area. Usually the wood harvested in the northern territories, is the most dense. Most high-quality timber – from the north of the Urals. Often we read that the most best to use construction of timber is harvested from November to late February. Nevertheless, this is not entirely untrue. In fact, spruce and pine is better to harvest in early February – early March. So long since become a tradition, and There are several explanations. Wood in this time of year is the dry, hence during its further processing produces less cracks than in the trunks of trees felled in a different season. In addition to the frost on the logs blackening and the fungus does not appear, and the bark is removed easily in the future. Therefore oshkurennye logs ultimately injured a little. Of course, winter trees is easier to remove. And the aspen begin to harvest at the end of March, when resumes sap flow. Harvested trees yet stand freezing temperatures free from knots and cut into logs (usually a 6-meter-long). They have until the end of winter should be removed from the forest and arranged for storage in stacks. It is imperative that the logs from the bottom had been torn from the ground to not less than two feet (so they do not fall moisture and dew from the ground). Speel in logs obscure the slaked lime in this way protect them from excessive drying and possible cracking.