Does wood become weaker in cold weather?
No worries with your skateboard – because it is made out of a composite wood product or plywood, and generally NOT a single piece of solid wood. Even if it were made from a piece of solid wood, because of it’s small size and dimensions, I seriously doubt that air temps at zero F and below would cause the wood to weaken due to frozen sap in the wood, or frozen glue in the composite or plywood type boards. However, the strength of large wood constructs like big wood Glu-Lam Beams, LLV’s, and other Engineered Wood Products, like wood joists and trusses, box beams, headers and ridge beams, and also solid wood framing timbers is due in part to their ability to flex and thus they need to be able to flex without breaking. Solid wood and composite wood which freezes solid and will not flex; will break, and thus is considered to weaken in extreme cold weather on a graduated scale, depending on dead & live loads applied to the equation. Hope this clarifies the over all question of wood & cold we
