• Shumway, Richard S.
  University of Maine Graduate School
  

An investigation was conducted to evaluate selected mechanical properties of middle-age plantation grown red pine trees and to evaluate the effect that position in the tree and related wood physical  characteristics have on the mechanical properties. Sixteen forty-eight year old red pine trees there selected from which a series of static bending and compression parallel to the grain samples were prepared from the butt, middle and upper portion of each tree.