Japan method of producing timber without killing the tree

Timbuck

Well-known member
Joined
Mar 10, 2009
Messages
6,606
Reaction score
1,833
Location
Stockton on Tees..North East UK.
That's awesome. Reminds me of Roger Dean's album cover artwork.
 
I thought that it was a joke as well. What's confusing though is scale. Those regrowths are very thin, and the Japanese traditionally use them as poles to hold up roofs.
You could get a neck blank out of those regrowths but no one is getting any tops, backs or sides out of them.
 
Last edited:
Wow, that is really something. Those Japanese are clever! I've heard about coppicing, I've seen trees do it, but I never thought about producing wood products for harvest like this. Hmmmm.
 
I was thinking I read somewhere Australians used this technique to grow eucalyptus fence posts.
I know from personal experience that eucalyptus will sprout from the trunk and grow to reasonable fence post diameters in just a few years.
I'm just trying to remember where I read they did this.
 
Top Bottom