Wind Shake Wood

Out west wind shake is in reference to the star like checks that occur in large trees such as redwood.

Wind shake wood. Like its name the cause is high winds in forest causing trees to bend and damage cellular structure of the wood. Diatomaceous earth is the powdered remains of diatoms which were ancient sea dwelling algae. Wind shake definition a flaw in wood supposed to be caused by the action of strong winds upon the trunk of the tree. My understanding of shake is that wind shake and ring shake are two completely different things.

I should have added that the bacteria that enter through the roots will be more often found in rocky soil and wet soil. Wind shake synonyms. Wind shake wnd n. An experienced woodturner in my area wouldnt take any wood from trees downed by hurricane irma saying it wasnt safe to work with.

Then when there is a wind storm the tree fails. Ring shake as the name implies is along a ring. Forestry a crack between the annual rings in wood. His conclusion was wind shake and customer was not keeping a proper climatic condition in the home.

Caused by strong winds bending the tree trunk. I did research on wind shake found a few web sites which said that wind shake you show above was caused by bacteria not the wind moving the trees. A month after install customer started noticing the wood splitting from but end to but end. In many instances some of the wood will separate and appear as delaminating.

Shake also called wind shake and ring shake is a separation or crack within the wood that runs parallel to the rings rather than across the rings like a typical end crack or honeycomb. While it feels like a fine soft powder to humans it is composed of millions of tiny jagged edges that spell doom for a wide variety of garden trouble makers. We replaced six boards the first round 5 boards a month later and more this last time. The defect is called shake or wind shake.

The bacterial action weakens the wood. However research has found that a bacterium is the true cause of shake. We hired our own inspector to look at the job. The bacterial damage is typically much wider spread than just the shake area.

Shakes were once thought to be caused by external stress factors such as wind and temperature extremes often called wind shakes.