How to turn a freshly-felled 200 year old pine tree into eight radial beams for your medieval church spire

IIRC, if the sapwood side is under tension, it won’t warp. Is that right?

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Those dudes have know nice chops on their axes.

Ha ha maybe not, but they are astonishingly accurate with both the axes and those gigundo mallets. Watch your fingers!

Do you think they wore steel-toed boots in the old days?

Yes. It’s much harder, denser, and as you say has more tension to hold firm and not warp. I seem to remember they mentioned that specifically at one point.

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Given the UN report yesterday, maybe 30 yo pine or hardwood LVL would be a better choice.

and another for people into axes:

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Well they have a least a Billion Euros to spend on this.

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