LENGA WOOD FIRST QUALITY Short

Lenga wood is considered dry kiln between 8 and 12% humidity. Maintains camera depending on the thickness, between 12 to 30 days, these periods are so long because of the density of the wood (600 kg per cubic metre). Being in the range of semi-hard wood, which makes it ideal for construction and furniture

Description and uses of wood of LENGA:
The height is approximately 3-4 cm thick, and its color varies from light gray to dark pink. The heartwood is coloured with brown hue ranging from light pink to clear yellowish brown. Wood has a fine texture and homogeneous, with a smooth semi-gloss surface, similar to cherry (Prunus serotina), or some species of birch (Betula ssp.)
The wood is of medium density, with a specific weight of between 800-850 kg/m3 when its density and green background is 0.57 gr/cm3. The combination of the characteristic of resistance (105 N / mm tension, 46 N / mm compression, 89 N / mm bending, 50 kj/m2 hardness) with his anatomical structure homogeneous, makes the wood is the lenga easily workable, that can be planed, pierced and carved in all directions allowing excellent polished (which readily accepts coatings, paints), surface and edges perfect couples. It also results in good nailed, screwed and glued. The dimensional stability is satisfactory, and artificial drying should be done slowly so that there are no twists or tensions.
Regarding the mechanical properties of dry wood into the air (12% moisture content), hardness tests indicate that the resistance is greater parallel to grain (508 kg / cm2) than normal or perpendicular (338 kg / cm2), so it is recommended that the first rate cut when it wants to use for the floor.
As for the parallel compression, which indicates its suitability for use as a column, is superior to that of radiata pine and poplar, but far less than the eucalyptus. The same goes for the resistance to bending, which gives us the pattern of his goodness as beam ceilings. It clarified that the lenga, as in many other species, these skills are highly influenced by a defect that presents wood, primarily knots, which can reduce the resistance to bending in half. For this reason, it is very important to impose a classification for use. Failure to do so by means wasting wood oversizing, reading or doing other more current, not to be organic.
It is used for many purposes: debobinado, faqueado sawing, chip, curved to steam, turning, carving, etc.. But the main use is for sawn timber structural. As has been well placed to do so, but the ideal would be to use wood cheaper and better skills for building such as eucalyptus and use the lenga for purposes more suited to his aesthetic, as machimbres and ceilings in sight.
The Lenga is also used for carpentry in general: openings of all kinds, tables, chairs, furniture. It is also used to poles and wire rods, but they do not have good performance, as their durability in contact with the ground is not long. From the standpoint of using this wood for obtaining paper, national tests show that is unsuitable for roles resilient, despite its long fiber 0.8 mm; Nor is seen as feasible their jobs as mechanical pulp . It could be used for paper wave (corrugated cardboard) or mixed with long fiber (derived from pine wood). Chile is currently exporting chip for the development of paper. It can also be used as firewood, despite not having a calorific (calorific value whatsoever: 4600 calories on: 2400 calories). You can make charcoal, since tests conducted show a 32% performance in oven half orange with a fixed percentage of carbon 60 to 80%.

Lenga (Nothofagus pumilio)
Lenga wood is characterized by a light wood Easy to work, brush and glue. In light brown with yello