Different Types Of Timber Flashcards
What is a softwood?
Softwood is a type of wood that is cut from trees belonging to coniferous trees. Softwood trees, such as pine, cedar, spruce, larch and fir, retain their leaves throughout the year and grow faster than hardwood. They can grow up to 20-25 years.
What is a Hardwood (deciduous)?
They are found from deciduous trees in cold climate and take around 80-100 years to fully grow.
What is a man-made (manufactured) wood?
It is a cheap and durable, widely available
How can you sort and know the difference between hard and soft woods?
You can tell the diference from the diferent leaves, seeds and the structre of the tree.
An example of a softwood?
Pine
An example of a hardwood?
Oak
An example of a man-made (manufactured) wood?
MDF
Plywood
What is a coniferous softwood tree?
It is a tree that is usually soft and they often grow in a cooler climate like Canada. An example of a wood being used in it is pine or spruce.
What is a deciduous (hardwood) tree?
It is a tree that loses its leaves in winter, they can be very expensive and tend to have a lighter grain. It can take 100 years to fully grow. An example of a wood being used is oak or ash.
Different types of manufactured boards?
Chipboard
Areoplywood
Why are manufactured board used?
Boards are inexpensive so are used instead of real wood.
Manufactured boards are often made using waste woods
Why are manufactured board used?
Manufactured boards are used because timber sheets are produced by gluing wood byers or wood fibers together.
Manufactured boards are often covered with a thin layer of real wood which is called vaneer this improves their appearence (aestheically pleasing) or properties
