Durability of treated posts, indigenous conifers
- Project Creator
- Forest Research Institute
- Current Holder
- Forest Research Institute
- Accession Number
- TTT000010
- Old Accession Number
- TTT000010
- Location
- Held in Scion archives
- MS Number
- FRI 10
- Other Reference Number
- Sample Plot Auckland 245. Project No. and control plan A27/1
- Future Storage
- Forest Research Institute archives
- Period
- 1960 - 1984 (measured to 1984)
- Volume
- 30pp
- Content
- FRI Room 123, Files 73/4, 63/4/3 (approx 5 pp). Data on special files held by Preservation Section of Forest Products Branch, file FRI 73/4, 67/3/2. Treatment of split and round posts of kauri, rimu and tanekaha. Durability tests in graveyard fenceline, supervised by J Denyer FRI, (installed 6.7.61) first tested 1964.FRI Room 844, Cabinet K3 Draw 3, Files A245, FRI 73/7, 28/7/1. Room 844 files contain correspondence, location plans and workplan for project FM, and data sheets for 6 progress reports to 1984.FRI file on A245 headed 'Preservatised indigenous posts".
- Source
- Sample Plot A245. Russell State Forest, Compt 1. Sketch of location, HQ site by huts in Punaruku Block.
- Future Work
- Trial apparently abandoned after 24 years testing, but see entry by D Page, Wood Technology Div, 4.7.86 in file FRI 63/4/3 indicating further monitoring might be done. Not known is final report was produced.
- Sort
- unsorted, no index
- Publish
- Internal reports. Reference source.
- Researchers
- J Denyer, D McKenzie, D Page, R Lloyd, F Eichel (KMU)
- Security
- Medium
- Restriction
- Subject to FRI approval
- Species
- kauri (Agathis australis), rimu (Dacrydium cupressinum), tanekaha (Phyllocladus trichomanoides)
- Keywords
- Durability, Indigenous Timbers
- Subject Areas