Janka hardness for briar

Nick · Post by **Nick** » Thu May 06, 2004 11:22 am

I ran accross a hardness scale for wood the other day called the Janka scale. Are any of you familiar with it? Apparantly it is a measurement of the force required to drive a .444" steel ball 1/2 an inch into the wood. There were some woods I saw that measured in the 3000 range. Does anyone know what is the Janka rating for briar?

Post by **KurtHuhn** » Thu May 06, 2004 1:06 pm

/me has evil thoughts about a piece of briar, a .44 black powder handgun, and chronograph.

Talk about dead root briar!

Nick · Post by **Nick** » Thu May 06, 2004 3:59 pm

LOL

Sacrelidge!!! Thats good briar you two!

Post by **Tyler** » Thu May 06, 2004 8:19 pm

I have no idea, but I'd certainly be interested to know!

Tyler

Nick · Post by **Nick** » Wed Jun 02, 2004 3:20 pm

Just saw some one post this on ASP.

Briar Erica arborea 960-1138 (sometimes seen it at 2000)

Cool information, but I'm surprised the number isn't higher. The other measurment for wood's hardness it specific gravity. Doesn't acually measure hardness, rather density. Perhaps briar isn't all that hard, but very dense. That would make sense really; not so hard as to make it aweful to work with, but dense enough to withstand the heat.

I should be getting info from the Forestry service about briar soon. I'll post it as soon as I receive it.