Your Questions About Wood

  • January
  • 15

6:00 am Pole barn

Donald asks…

What wood is suitable to build a bird house?

It needs to be a cheap wood but a effective and strong one.

I dont know much about woods and how to make it waterproof and which woods are most suitable for outdoors.

Mike answers:

CEDAR wood its weatherproof.thats why most are made of cedar.it very nice color anyways.

Jenny asks…

How much wood could a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck was actually a liberal vegan environmentalist?

Who also enjoyed croquet, foreign films, expensive wine, debating politics with people who don’t really care and nipples?

HOW MUCH WOOD?

Mike answers:

Croquet, expensive wine and foreign films are for rich people, and liberals do not like rich people, so therefore, the wood chuck would spend all of his time pondering how not to hate himself and starve to death.

William asks…

What is the best type of wood to easily sand?

I have a project where I need to weigh the amount of wood sanded. I need to get the most wood sanded off with the least amount of effort. My teacher said that balsa might work but that he wasn’t sure because there might be something better. He said that some soft woods just turn to “mush” when you try to sand them.
Does anyone know the best type of wood that’s not too expensive, does not require too much effort to sand, and loses the most wood shavings?
Also, what grain of sandpaper should be used with it?

Mike answers:

Balsa wood would work…it weighs next to nothing.
Pine would be my next choice,it’s not as soft as balsa but still a little soft.

And you can use 60 grit or 80 grit and you can use a woodplane to take shavings off.

Donna asks…

How do you keep wood from turning your aquarium water murky brown?

I would like to put a piece of wood in one of my fish tanks, with an Oscar in it. I am planning on getting the wood from my backyard, because I have heard of people doing it before and the outcome is beautiful. But, I also know how the wood will turn the water a gross murky brown and I am a clean water fanatic. I know that you can keep the wood from doing that, but I don’t know how. So… do any of you?

Mike answers:

Seal it with food grade polyurathene. You can get this at a paint store, just be very sure it’s food grade like for use on counter tops and chopping blocks. As an additional note, I wouldn’t use wood from the yard unless it was well sealed, it will simply rot over time and won’t take long to do it.

MM

Robert asks…

What kind of wood is good for cooking meat?

I have oak and maple and some cherry wood are any of these good for cooking meat. Im having a bonfire type BBQ and I want to know what is the best wood to cook with. I want something that will give the food a good taste if not what type of wood should I use.

Mike answers:

Maple, cherry or hickory are best

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