@@fenrirgg Pauwlonia grows in Asia while Balsa grows in South America. Pauwlonia is only the scond lightest wood in the world, but still twice as heavy as Balsa. The video is AI generated garbage.
Also I’m sick of all these TH-cam channels only using the metric system when they damn well know that most of their viewership comes from America use the imperial system. You know, inches feet miles etc😎
@@rand49er Balsa is still around and there are lots of free plans on the web. Many of them are timeless classics. You can get them printed out at 100% scale at copy centers for not much cost.
Although balsa wood is very light and easy to work with, it is also very weak and can break easily under heavy impact. For model projects that require stability or durability, other woods or even composite materials will work better. Balsa wood is only optimal in situations where light weight is required, not in all situations.
The balsa wood is of premium quality if the grain is straight, this is achieved by the trees growing straight, and this is achieved by planting them close together so that they compete for light and employ all their energy into growing straight. the AI narrators claim that they are too close together is incorrect, they are not trying to grow a tree like the natural one shown being cut down, they are most likely looking for a 12"-14" trunk which delivers maximum profit x time.
But the more competition for light and water, the slower the growth, which results in closer annual rings, making the wood heavier. With most lumber species that’s a plus but it kind of defeats the purpose of balsa.
As a kid we used to build model airplanes out of this stuff and it was always amazing to me how light weight it is. Nice to see its farmed, nothing like natural materials...
From the net: "Paulownia Wood... the Less Expensive, Stronger Alternative to Balsa Wood! Balsa has been incorrectly considered to have the highest strength to weight ratios of any wood in the world. Paulownia has been thoroughly tested and found to have a higher strength to weight ratio than Balsa..." My daughter's electric guitar body is Paulownia wood.
model bridge tests, model buildings, model aircraft,baits for fishing,core material in wood composites, surfboards, decks of boats, wind turbine blades,wooden props for theatre-movies-TV, and more...
@@SoulDelSol A hardwood tree sheds its leaves in autumn. A softwood tree does not. Thus, a southern yellow pine is a softwood despite the wood being so hard that it makes great flooring. And a Balsawood tree is a hardwood despite its wood being so soft that you can scratch it with your fingernail.
Balsa wood is not very durable, and it is very soft. As a result, no one uses it for construction or furniture making. However, it is used in the model industry.
@@flexiblebirdchannel turbines are imo, dreadful things for Bats Birds and anhyone living in close proximity the nosie I hear is maddening, they're hardly green, I've looked on google earth and you can lots of the blade in the area they bury the blades once "retired" and that's often. " According to Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Wood Research, turbine blades consist chiefly of glass-fiber-reinforced plastic and balsa wood, which are bonded together with epoxy or polyester resin. Because of the extreme stresses that the blades have to endure, that bond is very strong, making the two materials quite difficult to separate once the blades have been retired." "Smashing" system used to harvest balsa wood from wind turbine blades March 09, 2020 New Atlas . "The wind-power boom set off a scramble for balsa wood in Ecuador." Said the Economist: owner Rothschild. " Wind is a low-carbon energy source integral to global climate policies and decarbonization efforts. Construction of wind generating turbines requires many material inputs: balsa wood-a frequently used input in the core of wind turbine blades-is an important example. Balsa-which is chiefly produced in and exported from Ecuador-has, however, recently suffered from supply shortages, illegal logging, and deforestation. In response, wind turbine original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) are adapting by increasingly substituting balsa wood with synthetic polymer foam (a type of what is colloquially called plastic). This EBOT discusses this example of material input substitution in low-carbon technologies.1" United States International Trade Commission Executive Briefings on Trade, December 2022
I suspect this video was cobbled together by AI using a bunch of unrelated stock footage like a lot of the garbage videos that have infested TH-cam lately. Half my viewing time now is filtering out garbage videos from real content.
Balsa wood may have been a popular choice in the past, but with the advancement of modern materials technology, there are now many better alternatives such as carbon fiber, composites, and even high-end plastics. These materials are not only lightweight, but also stronger and can withstand greater pressures, making models and rockets perform much better than what balsa wood can provide.
Well now I can grow my own balsa tree. But actually these remind me of quaking aspen. Fast growth, full of moisture at harvest, but lightweightwhen dry.
I had no idea that the balsa wood industry was so big and so mechanized. That's a LOT of capital. I would have like to have seen more information and specifics on the end uses that gobble up so much balsa. In the 1950's a guy name Thor Heyerdahl sailed a balsa wood raft WEST from South America to try to prove some ancient people's movements. It would really have been nice to know where all this takes place, ya know? Modern "journalism."
well...ecuador supplies 70% (or more) of commercial balsa used around the world. actually In recent years about 60% of the balsa has been plantation-grown .
The Amazon needs clearing. It's completely overgrown. The civilizations before knew this and it was regularly thinned. The dense jungle you see now is a new thing from the Inca and Aztec being wiped out and not caring for the garden.
So why did the photo advertisement for this video show a reggin shouldering a log 4 foot wide and 8-9 feet long? and there are only working people in the video and no reggins......
I was surprised to hear that Balsa prefers tropical conditions. I always believed the full name was ARCTIC Balsa, because it grew... in arctic conditions. Which explained the low availability, and eye watering prices. But those growth rates feel similar to, or maybe exceed, bamboo. So why grow bamboo, when you could grow balsa?
or is it balsa tree (Ochroma) from Americas or is it kiri, time 8.17, (Paulownia) from asia. Both are relatives and have similar properties, one is tropical the other one is cold hardy.
Says right in the video trees are not mature for 6-10 years. Why give bad info in the heading??? What's the point? I'm still impressed that they are mature in that length of time. Also misleading is the huge tree being cut at the beginning. I would bet that isn't a 5 year old tree!
Have a useless wind energy technolies certificate from a local college, never knew that the blades had balsa wood. College hada couple turnbines they made. And had a true wind turbine tech traing program
Balsa trees (Ochroma pyramidale) don't thrive in waterlogged conditions. They prefer well-drained soils and are typically found in tropical rainforests where the soil is moist but not excessively waterlogged. Prolonged waterlogging can lead to root rot and other issues that can harm or kill the tree. So, while they do need a consistent level of moisture, they don't do well in areas where the soil remains saturated for long periods.
It wasn't clear in the video. Do balsa trees thrive in water logged soil? I was also wondering if you could use balsa wood for wind turbine blades? This was just a continuous repeating diatribe. So mind numbingly uninteresting.
It's because most of the footage wasn't about Balsa trees; it was about Paulownia trees, which are fast-growing trees that can be grown in temperate climates like Europe. Balsa trees are a tropical species that originates in Central and South America.
Interesting but why would they need to kill every living thing on the lot before planting? Seems way less environmentally friendly than just logging the trees you need without making a complete wasteland of the area where you grow the trees. Little critters need places to live as well. This is where the militant vegans prove they are virtue signalling weenies rather than students of life. Monocrop farming, whether for food or lumber, kills more animals than a beef farm by a factor of 10 but as long as they aren't the big animals we can show on video, everyone is fine with it.
I completely agree, same with most of the mono species re-forestation, on a long term they do not work because they lack of biodiversity and a single species makes the soil poorer and poorer because it absorbing always the same kind of nutrients.
Why do you narrate in English and then in foreign language for volume, speed and distances? It makes my viewing a WASTE of time. I'm NOT going to sit here and convert French to English or convert speed and distance to feet and miles per hour because it is the same trouble. Your target audience is not Canada because there is nobody there. No references in English ruins your video. Language applies exactly same to speed and distance as words. I have to look up what "papion" means in French for instance "butterfly" translated. I cannot see 20m? I can see 65'-7" and forget metrics better because one has to split hairs in all measuring systems. If i say 65' exactly then that would be 19,8 meters (less accurate by the way) You narrate in English and "So Should Distance Then" is my point. You can blame man in Genesis 11-9 of the Tower of babel.
Most images show Paulownia trees, not balsa wood. Video is utter garbage.
Correct!
I began to believe the paulownia or kiri wood was the same as balsa wood while watching the video, but now I feel scammed xd
@@fenrirgg Pauwlonia grows in Asia while Balsa grows in South America. Pauwlonia is only the scond lightest wood in the world, but still twice as heavy as Balsa.
The video is AI generated garbage.
Also I’m sick of all these TH-cam channels only using the metric system when they damn well know that most of their viewership comes from America use the imperial system. You know, inches feet miles etc😎
@@iotaje1 the video is not taken in Asia
the AI confused balsa with all sort of trees, and the editing never ocurred, making the lowest quality video a shame to the author
whatever props "the narrative"
Whe AI starts making content.......
Have always marveled at the balsa wood I used as a kid to make models and fins for rockets. Nothing could have worked better. Thanks for this video.
@@rand49er Balsa is still around and there are lots of free plans on the web. Many of them are timeless classics. You can get them printed out at 100% scale at copy centers for not much cost.
You should have watched the video and you would have realised it wasn't about balsa.
Although balsa wood is very light and easy to work with, it is also very weak and can break easily under heavy impact. For model projects that require stability or durability, other woods or even composite materials will work better. Balsa wood is only optimal in situations where light weight is required, not in all situations.
agree with you
The balsa wood is of premium quality if the grain is straight, this is achieved by the trees growing straight, and this is achieved by planting them close together so that they compete for light and employ all their energy into growing straight.
the AI narrators claim that they are too close together is incorrect, they are not trying to grow a tree like the natural one shown being cut down, they are most likely looking for a 12"-14" trunk which delivers maximum profit x time.
But the more competition for light and water, the slower the growth, which results in closer annual rings, making the wood heavier. With most lumber species that’s a plus but it kind of defeats the purpose of balsa.
It's amazing how balsa trees grow so quickly and are used in such diverse applications, from model planes to aerospace materials!
The more I think about it, the more impressive growing a tree within 5 years time is!
As a kid we used to build model airplanes out of this stuff and it was always amazing to me how light weight it is. Nice to see its farmed, nothing like natural materials...
Do balsa tree's like waterlogged conditions? You didn't mention if they did or not 😂
Early on they said no
yes, all 17 chatgpt concatenated texts never mentioned it
Actually it was mentioned several times in the early part of the video. Controlled moisture but not waterlogged.
Lol!
woosh , all the replies
From the net: "Paulownia Wood... the Less Expensive, Stronger Alternative to Balsa Wood! Balsa has been incorrectly considered to have the highest strength to weight ratios of any wood in the world. Paulownia has been thoroughly tested and found to have a higher strength to weight ratio than Balsa..." My daughter's electric guitar body is Paulownia wood.
Thanks for commenting!
Amazing to see how quickly balsa trees grow and are used in industry! What are the most common products made from balsa wood?
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I remember as a kid in the 50's the hobby shop having a big selection of balsa pieces, I was amazed how light weight it was.
I'm more impressed with aluminum
Balsa info until 8:30. After 8:30, the video is regular lumber processing.
I believe that Balsa is considered a hard wood. This may be wrong, but I remember being told that at school.
Yes that’s right it’s class as a hardwood same as mahogany
Hardwood and soft wood doesn't refer to the strength of the wood but more so they type of tree it is.
@@roxasparksso what does it mean exactly if not hard or soft
@@SoulDelSol A hardwood tree sheds its leaves in autumn. A softwood tree does not. Thus, a southern yellow pine is a softwood despite the wood being so hard that it makes great flooring. And a Balsawood tree is a hardwood despite its wood being so soft that you can scratch it with your fingernail.
It's actually incredibly soft and weak.
Incredible how they grow so tall so fast. Thanks.
Balsa wood is not very durable, and it is very soft. As a result, no one uses it for construction or furniture making. However, it is used in the model industry.
And in wind turbine blades.Nearly every balsa tree ends there.
Heavily used in aircraft composite structures
Ya...used now by so many industries that us RC Plane hobbiests now have a hard time sourcing balsa.
Makes cool lil air planes though lmao
@@flexiblebirdchannel turbines are imo, dreadful things for Bats Birds and anhyone living in close proximity the nosie I hear is maddening, they're hardly green, I've looked on google earth and you can lots of the blade in the area they bury the blades once "retired" and that's often.
" According to Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Wood Research, turbine blades consist chiefly of glass-fiber-reinforced plastic and balsa wood, which are bonded together with epoxy or polyester resin. Because of the extreme stresses that the blades have to endure, that bond is very strong, making the two materials quite difficult to separate once the blades have been retired."
"Smashing" system used to harvest balsa wood from wind turbine blades March 09, 2020 New Atlas
. "The wind-power boom set off a scramble for balsa wood in Ecuador." Said the Economist: owner Rothschild.
" Wind is a low-carbon energy source integral to global climate policies and decarbonization efforts. Construction of wind generating turbines requires many material inputs: balsa wood-a frequently used input in the core of wind turbine blades-is an important example. Balsa-which is chiefly produced in and exported from Ecuador-has, however, recently suffered from supply shortages, illegal logging, and deforestation. In response, wind turbine original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) are adapting by increasingly substituting balsa wood with synthetic polymer foam (a type of what is colloquially called plastic). This EBOT discusses this example of material input substitution in low-carbon technologies.1"
United States International Trade Commission Executive Briefings on Trade, December 2022
Interesting topic, ruined by bad AI narration and tagging two separate topics together.
According to this video balsa tree grows so fast in tropics that it becomes tulip tree, ambrosia and maple on the way.
I suspect this video was cobbled together by AI using a bunch of unrelated stock footage like a lot of the garbage videos that have infested TH-cam lately. Half my viewing time now is filtering out garbage videos from real content.
😮 I feel you
I agree totally. Seems to be all about money for the content creators and F--k the truth!!!
You need to cover the removal of the tree stumps after the tree is cut down and reading the ground for the next planting of trees.
I just wanted to see that guy carrying a 2 ton heavy log on his shoulder, aaah you got me there 🎉
The varide weight of some sheets are use full for making R/C model aircraft and keep all offcuts. Thank's for posting
Balsa wood may have been a popular choice in the past, but with the advancement of modern materials technology, there are now many better alternatives such as carbon fiber, composites, and even high-end plastics. These materials are not only lightweight, but also stronger and can withstand greater pressures, making models and rockets perform much better than what balsa wood can provide.
Well now I can grow my own balsa tree. But actually these remind me of quaking aspen. Fast growth, full of moisture at harvest, but lightweightwhen dry.
Even these will take more then 6 years to be ready for harvest.
learnt a lot! thanks!
Being a deciduous angiosperm, balsa is classified as a hardwood despite the wood itself being very soft; it is the softest commercial hardwood.
Yea we know the brainwash but it's not hard therefore it's not a hardwood.
So jealous. I own some forest in northern Scandinavia, and it takes 80 years for the trees to mature for harvesting.
The trees and the wood is better than this.
@@msheart2 Not if you make stick and tissue model airplanes.
The CGI cover photo of this video
is so naive and simple finishing.
Great Video.
You didn't mention in the video what happens to the Tree stems that are left after the tree has been cut down. How are the processed.
One question: will balsa trees tolerate waterlogged conditions?
No
Yes but one thing that wasnt clear , balsa wood does well in water logged condicions?
It rots the bane of boat builders the fiberglass cores must be water tight Paulownia or synthetic foams are better choices when moisture are present
Can balsa plants are suitable for heavy wind areas?
Interesting!
Thank you
Amazing video well done once again
I had no idea that the balsa wood industry was so big and so mechanized. That's a LOT of capital. I would have like to have seen more information and specifics on the end uses that gobble up so much balsa.
In the 1950's a guy name Thor Heyerdahl sailed a balsa wood raft WEST from South America to try to prove some ancient people's movements.
It would really have been nice to know where all this takes place, ya know? Modern "journalism."
Yes it's called UN and WTO doing favours.
@@msheart2 WTF are you talking about?
Nice leaves.
This is not balsa tree. It is Pauwlonia tree!!!!😮😮😮😮😮🤬
Random trees picked up by an artificial stupidity😢
Artificial voice too
Nothing like land stripping and destroying the Amazon forest for the wood and using the wood in wind turbine blades 🙄
Good point. Good job the balsa is planted and harvested especially for production.
well...ecuador supplies 70% (or more) of commercial balsa used around the world.
actually In recent years about 60% of the balsa has been plantation-grown .
Can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs.
Renewable resource.
The Amazon needs clearing. It's completely overgrown. The civilizations before knew this and it was regularly thinned. The dense jungle you see now is a new thing from the Inca and Aztec being wiped out and not caring for the garden.
I hope we can grow it as fast as we consume it otherwise we'll run out in due course.
So why did the photo advertisement for this video show a reggin shouldering a log 4 foot wide and 8-9 feet long? and there are only working people in the video and no reggins......
Say what you mean. Coward…
Gizmo in Lord Gizmo, I feel, reduces the academic value of this channel !😊
Ffs, couldnt even bother showing the right trees or even locations in 90% of the video. Literally worse than Discovery channel stock footage slop.
I'd like to build a house out of balsa wood.
"Plant each seed 1/2-inch deep" right after it was shown seeds just tossed into a potting mix. So either method is used?
Amazing, any kind of plant eventually turns into a balsa tree. Why are these channels allowed.
The end is near.😊
I was surprised to hear that Balsa prefers tropical conditions.
I always believed the full name was ARCTIC Balsa, because it grew... in arctic conditions. Which explained the low availability, and eye watering prices.
But those growth rates feel similar to, or maybe exceed, bamboo. So why grow bamboo, when you could grow balsa?
Who reads the comments while listening ?
Guilty
@@jonathansmith2824 busted , now you got to subscribe.
why do you need that anoying background noise
lt adds tension to the video.
Where is this???
Balsa lumberjack has gotta be the easiest lumberjack in the world. Up there with styrofoam brick layer.
How about leaving rainforests to grow themselves rather than cutting them down to grow a tree you need
Waaaaaaaaa
Amazing video
Thank you
i love durable construction balsa materials in all my houses
" durable" in someone's dreams.
or is it balsa tree (Ochroma) from Americas or is it kiri, time 8.17, (Paulownia) from asia. Both are relatives and have similar properties, one is tropical the other one is cold hardy.
How can I buy the Balsa seed I'm in Zimbabwe
Strange to think that Balsa is a Hardwood 😉👍
All that tech does nothing to keep prices down, prices are crazy.
Why is there a mix of measurements? Feet, Inches,Meters centimeters, Fahrenheit etc.
Interesting, in only five years? A real money crop then.
Acidic soil level good to grow blueberries underneath while you wait to harvest the trees, you get blueberries!👊🤣✌
I love videos like this. They help me understand the process of creating something. Very complete and detailed. Thank.
The first and preferred pronunciation of KLIN is "kil", the "n" being silent. Look this up in your Webster's or O.E.D.
But why is balsa wood so expensive. Nearly everything is automated.
Just to remind everyone for the 6th time, balsa trees do NOT like waterlogged soil. Again, do not over water them.
Where are the trees in the video grown?
Says right in the video trees are not mature for 6-10 years.
Why give bad info in the heading??? What's the point? I'm still impressed that they are mature in that length of time. Also misleading is the huge tree being cut at the beginning. I would bet that isn't a 5 year old tree!
What country?
Ah, the naïveté of the general public thinking there are green solutions that have no price or cost. And in what world did you grow up?
So, if I go non-green, it's all free then?
I don't know what to believe anymore my eyes are tired
I love videos like this.
Yes but what about all this waterlogging?
Great Video, I like it. I made video on Salt Harvesting, 👍
Why is there a question mark in your title?
Fascinating and extremely well done 😊
Most of this video in not Balsa wood. Great job some stock video footage.
Have a useless wind energy technolies certificate from a local college, never knew that the blades had balsa wood. College hada couple turnbines they made. And had a true wind turbine tech traing program
So leicht wie hier dargestellt ist Balsa nun auch wieder nicht . 😊
Guess what balsa trees don't like the damp soil
Apparently. 🤣
Yeah they don't tolerate waterlogged soil.
I wonder if this whole thing was written by Chat GPT…
Balsa trees (Ochroma pyramidale) don't thrive in waterlogged conditions. They prefer well-drained soils and are typically found in tropical rainforests where the soil is moist but not excessively waterlogged. Prolonged waterlogging can lead to root rot and other issues that can harm or kill the tree. So, while they do need a consistent level of moisture, they don't do well in areas where the soil remains saturated for long periods.
Fantastic video, save the naturel jungles.
It wasn't clear in the video. Do balsa trees thrive in water logged soil? I was also wondering if you could use balsa wood for wind turbine blades?
This was just a continuous repeating diatribe. So mind numbingly uninteresting.
Alexei Sayle wrote a song about it.
🤔🤔🤔Cut all trees and "grow" plastic ones ! ! !
That is beautiful information on the video. Thank you!!!
If it grows so fast why is it so expensive
I imagined that balsa trees would shatter when they hit the ground.
Balsa is about 60% moisture as a live tree, so the trunk is flexible when falling.
I made a balsa wood baseball bat, but it broke the first time I hit a ball!?!!
The people working this balsa tree farm look to be of European stock. But the trees are farmed in Equador and china.
It's because most of the footage wasn't about Balsa trees; it was about Paulownia trees, which are fast-growing trees that can be grown in temperate climates like Europe. Balsa trees are a tropical species that originates in Central and South America.
AI can't differentiate a "square log" from its real identity a CANT
The commercials every 2 minutes is so distracting in frustrating. I'm done.
Interesting but why would they need to kill every living thing on the lot before planting? Seems way less environmentally friendly than just logging the trees you need without making a complete wasteland of the area where you grow the trees. Little critters need places to live as well. This is where the militant vegans prove they are virtue signalling weenies rather than students of life. Monocrop farming, whether for food or lumber, kills more animals than a beef farm by a factor of 10 but as long as they aren't the big animals we can show on video, everyone is fine with it.
I completely agree, same with most of the mono species re-forestation, on a long term they do not work because they lack of biodiversity and a single species makes the soil poorer and poorer because it absorbing always the same kind of nutrients.
Sooo make sure its really wet all the time.
wtf is with that thumbnail
To make me watch it. I know balsa is light but I wanted to see that guy carry the giant log!
You can make a model out of that 😂
Simple stupid ai videos always get the Do Not Recommend This Channel 😂
Why do you narrate in English and then in foreign language for volume, speed and distances? It makes my viewing a WASTE of time. I'm NOT going to sit here and convert French to English or convert speed and distance to feet and miles per hour because it is the same trouble. Your target audience is not Canada because there is nobody there. No references in English ruins your video. Language applies exactly same to speed and distance as words. I have to look up what "papion" means in French for instance "butterfly" translated. I cannot see 20m? I can see 65'-7" and forget metrics better because one has to split hairs in all measuring systems. If i say 65' exactly then that would be 19,8 meters (less accurate by the way) You narrate in English and "So Should Distance Then" is my point. You can blame man in Genesis 11-9 of the Tower of babel.
Very Good!
F0rk your Fahrenheit. Celsius thank you.
And kick ass black powder.
no wine corks