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by jaggederest 709 days ago
The other important property that wood shares with modern manmade composites is that it is anisotropic - i.e., it is stronger in some directions of force than others. You can use bodyweight to snap a short grain board that would, if it were long grain, hold up under a ton or more.
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note when you make OSB2 and OSB3, you to some degree can make up for this(?)