Cedar Question

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ArsenalDon

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Dec 16, 2012
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Meadow Valley, CA
Can anyone tell me what is going on with this Cedar I cut up? Beetles?
 

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I have something similar with a load of cedar that I cut up. It was infested with big black ants (carpenter ants?). So much for cedar being bug proof. The damage was only to a small portion of the wood so I just kept cutting. Ants burn good too. ;)
 
I know moths don't like cedar:) Do you have some bug out in California we don't have on the east coast? I've never seen cedar with holes like that.
 
I googled "Brown Heart rot in Cedar trees" and this is what popped up:
"Brown cubical Butt & Pocket Rot of Cedar"
From forestrydev.org
"The breakdown of the wood becomes brown and brittle and breaks down into cubes to form a cylinder of rot or a series of isolated pockets."
" Common on the butt logs of Western Red cedar."
 
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