Yesterday afternoon a thunderstorm moved in, I was looking out the window when we got a few million volts through a 100ft. cottonwood about 75 ft. from the house. Bang, lumber flying all over. The energy boils the sap into steam in a microsecond. Pieces like 2 x4's, 2 x 12's all around, it was an amazing thing to see. After the storm the wood was white, this morning some of it is red. Why has some of it turned red?
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| Wood turned red the day after the strike |
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| Wood was white after lightning strike |
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| Same wood was red the next morning |
Maybe the heat energy in the lightning strike fried the sap?
ReplyDeleteRon
could be from the sap getting cooked
ReplyDeleteSarge, Red Mosquito,
ReplyDeleteSame guess. We may be saps.
Fringe:
ReplyDeleteLumber today is quite expensive. What are you going to do with all that free lumber?
Whit,
ReplyDeleteI wish it was a fine hard wood, cottonwood doesn't have many uses beyond kitchen wooden spoons and a fast burning low temp (relative to hard woods) firewood. I suppose nothing is the answer, let it lay in under the ivy, the ivy will use it up in a few years.