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Equipment => Bats => Topic started by: Joe on November 18, 2011, 10:13:42 PM

Title: Horizontal Grains
Post by: Joe on November 18, 2011, 10:13:42 PM: Why not?
Title: Re: Horizontal Grains
Post by: psincock on November 18, 2011, 10:19:02 PM: Really ? Come on think about what you have just said . How long is that tree going to have to grow to get big enough for you to get a cleft out of it . think what the grains are
Title: Re: Horizontal Grains
Post by: Tom on November 18, 2011, 10:19:38 PM: Simple. Because a tree isn't big enough
Title: Re: Horizontal Grains
Post by: SillyShilly on November 18, 2011, 10:29:32 PM: Most trees are not big enough - though some which grow quickly and that have been left for a long time can get enormous - easily big enough for a bats width, however, why the hell you would want to do it is beyond me though!
Title: Re: Horizontal Grains
Post by: Manormanic on November 18, 2011, 10:57:43 PM: correct me if I'm wrong, but would not a horizontally grained bat be structurally weak?
Title: Re: Horizontal Grains
Post by: tim2000s on November 18, 2011, 11:22:29 PM: Quote from: Manormanic on November 18, 2011, 10:57:43 PM
correct me if I'm wrong, but would not a horizontally grained bat be structurally weak?
That is precisely what I was going to post.
Title: Re: Horizontal Grains
Post by: johnnyw on November 19, 2011, 12:07:16 PM: A bat with horizontal grains will just snap in half
Title: Re: Horizontal Grains
Post by: swamidude on November 19, 2011, 01:21:32 PM: Unless you're just pulling and cutting ;)
Title: Re: Horizontal Grains
Post by: Joe on November 19, 2011, 01:32:23 PM: Quote from: swamidude on November 19, 2011, 01:21:32 PM
Unless you're just pulling and cutting ;)

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