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Old 26-04-2003, 12:30 PM
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Is it real I heve to cut down the trees when the moon is going down?
In case of affermative answer, what is the why?


Yes, there is a connection.

When the moon is full, there is more sap in the wood. This may be
better or worse for building, depending on opinion...

Two quotes, for example:

"Workers who followed traditional methods cut the mesquite tree posts,
center beams, and the rest of the wood used for making the jacales
during a full moon. They believed any part of the tree cut during the
new crescent-shaped moon retained the sap and so attracted insects,
which left a powdery mess that rotted the wood. Houses made of such
wood would not last long."
http://www.texancultures.utsa.edu/ra...chapter011.htm

"Napoleon I. directed that the felling of naval timber should take
place only from November 1 to March 15, and during the decrease of the
moon, on account of the rapid decay of timber, through the
fermentation of its sap, if cut at other seasons."
http://72.1911encyclopedia.org/D/DR/DRY_ROT.htm

Hope this helps.

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Marcus

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Old 26-04-2003, 12:30 PM
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Marcus Williamson writes

"Workers who followed traditional methods cut the mesquite tree posts,
center beams, and the rest of the wood used for making the jacales
during a full moon. They believed any part of the tree cut during the
new crescent-shaped moon retained the sap and so attracted insects,
which left a powdery mess that rotted the wood. Houses made of such
wood would not last long."
http://www.texancultures.utsa.edu/ra...chapter011.htm

"Napoleon I. directed that the felling of naval timber should take
place only from November 1 to March 15, and during the decrease of the
moon, on account of the rapid decay of timber, through the
fermentation of its sap, if cut at other seasons."
http://72.1911encyclopedia.org/D/DR/DRY_ROT.htm

Hope this helps.


It suggests that it's not current practice.

Probably due to it being myth, although the cutting timber when the sap
is down (winter) is reasonable.

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Gordon Couger wrote in message
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there is a saying I cannot quite remember about the value of a peck

of
March dust. Basically if you can get dust in march it means you have

the
possibility of a decent seedbed, shortage of water is not even

thought
of as a problem.

It's a lot cheaper to lose a crop to dry weather over here than it is

to wet
weather. On my wife's place in west Texas the dry land cotton was

dusted in.
For those of you that get rain regularly that is planted in dry ground

and
wait for a rain to bring it up. When it got a shower to get it up at

wind
evaporated the moisture before it could meet the moisture a few inches

below
the surface and the cotton sprouted and died. I have had the happen a

time
or two as well. It won't happen again on that place it will have the

drip
irrigation installed it by the end of next week, if it doesn't rain.


funnily enough we have the phrase "puddled in" where things are sort of
wet and the seed bed isn't really good enough but you know fine well
that it isn't going to get any better.

It should take the yield from 300 pounds per acre to better than 2,000
pounds per acre.


Even here we had one chap who did a bit of irrigation, just to ensure
grass got the absolute optimum during April/May, and he showed an
economic return. Then the Environment agency started asking if he had an
abstraction licence and that would have made it uneconomic.
Your increase is impressive.


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'Abd-ar-Rahman b. Muhammad b. Khaldun al-Hadrami'


Gordon






 
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