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Or the wood is from a tree that was dead before it was cut..<br><br>
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J<br>
At 09:47 AM 7/1/2009, you wrote:<br>
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Most times terribly dry wood is similar to (dry rot) and
caused by drying the wood to quickly or it is extremely old and been
stored in conditions that caused some stucture changes in the wood. Punky
wood is the natural condition of wet rot after the wood is dry like Jim
said a stabilizer has to be added to keep the cells of the wood bound
together.<br>
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Chris Howard<br>
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