Cedar or oak is strong, and which is not easy to crack when made into barrels

1. Cedar wood.

Cypress wood, also known as cedar wood, is slow to grow, hard in texture, has many knots, heavy in quality, and has strong corrosion resistance. Cedar wood has a natural fragrance that can be used in medicine, and cypress can calm the nerves and nourish the heart. According to the "Compendium of Materia Medica", "Twenty-five Prescriptions", "Qianjin Yifang" and other records:

Cedar wood has a sweet taste, enters the heart, liver, spleen, kidney, and bladder meridians, and has the effects of health care, beauty, and skin beautification.

Due to its heavy weight, it is difficult for many elderly people to move and move. Therefore, if the older people want to use the cedar foot bath, they should consider whether they can move it.

2. Oak.

The oak timber period is more than 50 years to hundreds of years, the growth wheel is obvious, slightly wavy, heavy and hard, China is distributed in the north to Jilin, Liaoning in the south to Hainan and Yunnan, but the number is small, which is also an important reason for the high oak furniture. It is widely used in decoration materials and furniture, because of its excellent material performance. Oak is heavy and hard, the texture is straight, the structure is coarse, the color is elegant, the texture is beautiful, the mechanical strength is quite high, and the wear is resistant.

3. Each type of wood has its corresponding characteristics, and the key is to choose the one that suits you is the best. Both oak and cedar are very good corrosion resistant, but both are heavier. Due to the long growth cycle of oak and the beautiful grain of oak, oak barrels are more expensive than cedar wood.

Due to the fact that cedar wood is born with more knots, the finished products produced have many nodes, which are not very beautiful at a glance.

Cedar source barrel oak looks sturdy in appearance, but the life of the wood cedar is the longest! If you make a wooden barrel, the cedar wood is not easy to crack, this you go to see the barrels sold by yourself are mostly cedar wood, oak stuttering is less, it looks clean, many manufacturers have promoted oak as a high-end series of products! Sichuan cedar source barrels are specially made of cedar wood, you can search for it yourself!!

Cedar is not the same as cypress, cedar belongs to the pine family, cedar genus, while cypress is a plant of the cypress family, cypress genus. Cedar is mainly distributed in Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan and other places in China, while cypress is mostly distributed in various areas south of the Yangtze River basin in China, and the altitude of the growing place is mostly between 300-1000 meters.

Introduction to cedar wood.

Cedar is a shrub, belonging to a variety of cypress alpine cypress, the branches are often creeping and growing, hexagonal, the upper part of the branch is curved downward, the flowering period is in April and June every year, and it grows mostly in alpine shrubs.

Introduction to Kashiwagi. Cypress is a kind of plant of the cypress family, cypress genus, the plant belongs to a tall tree, the tree can be about 35 meters high, the bark color is light brown gray, the cones are round and spherical, the diameter is about 10 mm, there are 4 pairs of scales.

The difference between cedar and cypress.

1. Different families and genera do chain stimulation

Cedar belongs to the family of Pinaceae and Cedar plants, while cypress is a plant of the family Cypressaceae and Cedar family.

2. The distribution range is not the same

Cedar is mainly distributed in Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan and other places in China, while cypress is mostly distributed in various areas south of the Yangtze River basin in China, and the altitude of the growing place is mostly between 300-1000 meters.

3. Different uses

Cedar wood is a relatively precious tree species, wood has a natural antiseptic effect, hard texture and high density, can be used to make wood, shipbuilding, etc., cypress wood has excellent texture, relatively straight texture, can be used for shipbuilding and construction, but it belongs to the national protection of plants, can not be cut down indiscriminately.