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No idea but i think it's safe to say it wasn't due to grain orientation or run out.
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Yeah, that is another can of worms altogether.Looks to me like a truck backed over it while it was lying across a rock or pothole, to look like one of them thar cartoon renditions of an exploding cigar.
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That's a strange break. Sometimes 'shake' wood (when a felled tree hits the ground) gets through QC without being discovered. Certainly the label is in the right place but that split isn't.
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I think 300 nailed it. Many trees are damaged when they hit the ground. There's a whole science built around preventing this. But it still happens.
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It's a tee ball bat. And if you look at this pic, the break was expected.
From that view you can see exactly why it broke where it did. Sure the label is in the right spot. And of course we have all had label up or down drilled into us so as to hit the end grain.
But....
Non mlb use bats are ALL inferior. Even the ones you pay $100+ dollars for. The top 1% of the wood, the "perfect" bat wood goes into mlb bats. Unless you buy bats from a small maker. Like someone local.
The boy is in tee ball. Watch an mlb game. Count how many times the label is not in the "preffered" orientation. It will require you and a friend remove your shoes.
So it is of no surprise to anyone that someone hit a couple in the "wrong place" during tee ball practice. My youngest players maple bat has a dirty white strip completely around the sweet spot.Bats do not break because of improperly orientated labels or grain orientation if you will. Ash bats flake or suffer delamination if hit against the face grain. So you hit against the end grain. Orientation of maple affects the way a failure will happen. Birch bats they have decided it does not matter at all.
If person researches wood tests. Then bat tests. Then thinks that through they will come to the same conclusion.
If I had to guess I'd say he took that last one off the end of the bat and it stung a bit.
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If you handed it to some of the idiots I work with, yes.So this:
Happened in normal use. ?
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I hope this is not taken as a nit picking, and I may be wrong, but it seems to me that the ball would strike the edge grain when the label is up and on the face grain.
Bob
I think your post was a very good analysis.
Bob