What is the best wood for a hiking staff?
What is the best wood for a hiking staff?
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What is the best wood for a hiking staff?
Strongest, toughest, prettiest, most comfortable, etc. If you were going to build a hiking staff, what would you use? Weight is somewhat of an issue. Ability to hold up while beating down brush and blackberries is also an issue. It would be nice if it would take fittings for bear bells, etc.
Thanks,
Tom
Strongest, toughest, prettiest, most comfortable, etc. If you were going to build a hiking staff, what would you use? Weight is somewhat of an issue. Ability to hold up while beating down brush and blackberries is also an issue. It would be nice if it would take fittings for bear bells, etc.
Thanks,
Tom
Thomas J. Walz
Carbide Processors, Inc.
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Other than that - who cares?? Find something that fits your needs and go with it. I would stay away from the pines - they seem to warp and wane too much. Some kind of hardwood makes sense to me
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Garth Dreger PE - AZ Phoenix area
As EOR's we should take the responsibility to design our structures to support the components we allow in our design per that industry standards.
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The daddy tree said... your mother was a fine piece of ash.
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Dik
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Mike McCann
MMC Engineering
http://mmcengineering.tripod.com
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Dik
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It seems that you'd need the lightest weight hardwood that you can find. Most of the wood books I have don't include a lot of the hardwood varieties to check on that but an online search for hardwoods might turn up something.
Alternatively you could paint nice brown wood grain on the aluminum.
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See the attachment regarding bear bells, Tom.
It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
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Mike McCann
MMC Engineering
http://mmcengineering.tripod.com
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Dik
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Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
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Dik
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Mike McCann
MMC Engineering
http://mmcengineering.tripod.com
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Carry of a stick of spruce and the snakes will vamoose.
Carry of a stick of birch and the snakes will lurk.
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