I've heard them called Wood-hippies lately in Kentucky, the people, not the cotten wood.
Larry 2
---- Mary <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> A deconsecrated church for a small flock sounds good. Yep, without
> proper milling and curing, cottonwood is crazy.
>
> On the south slopes of the Wallowas, white settlers came from
> Appalachia. The oldtimers called cottonwood firewood-- good for
> cookstoves-- bam or biscuit wood. You had to split it while it was
> still green. I suppose a big chunk might burn or awhile but
> biscuitwood was aptly named.
>
> In the Wallowas, the locals called the 70s back-to-the-landers "meadow
> mushrooms." Some of them lived in yurts or tepees. I lived in an old I
> house on a farm homesteaded by orchardists. It was heaven there, mostly.
>
>
> On Dec 4, 2010, at 7:25 PM, Cuyler Page <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > A little water-powered sawmill near the tiny town of Edgewood where
> > I once lived out here in BC had a contract during WW1 to supply
> > cottonwood lumber for the making of war aircraft. The story told
> > is that when the supply of structural balsa wood was cut off from
> > South America, the cottonwood here was deemed a good substitute. It
> > was shipped out by lakeboat and then train to the east coast and
> > then to Britain.
> >
> > Saw some fresh cut cottonwood used to make fences and cabins by some
> > back-to-the-landers here in the 1960's, and the shapes the boards
> > took was as wandery as the occupants' pipe dreams. It sure was
> > pretty to see the wandering sculpture of the fences! Boards would
> > pop their nails if needed to go their own way, but the occupants
> > didn't mind. They enjoyed running their little mill, and just kept
> > cutting new wood and patching it in wherever an opening occurred.
> > It looked bizarrely wonderful, sort of like a horizontal Watt's
> > Towers.
> >
> > At that time (before Alice's Restaurant), I bought a little
> > deconsecrated log church to live in. Built in 1935, it had a
> > vaulted ceiling made of cottonwood plywood. With the surface never
> > "finished", it still had a whiteish creamy colour. It was 3 ply,
> > and I never did find out where it came from. Seemed awfully early
> > for sheet plywood. The barrel vault shape was framed with arched
> > rafters made up of four layers of 1/2" thick boards nail laminated
> > together. I guess you would have to say they were made of 1/2 x
> > 4s. Four layers made up the real inch dimensions used for 2 x 4s
> > here in that era.
> >
> > I never tried cottonwood for lumber after seeing the lively
> > homestead, but it sure made great overnight wood in the stove.
> > Just like coal. A single big chunk would last all night without
> > needing a neighbour to keep it burning. The ash was another
> > story, and that was why none of the other locals chose to burn the
> > wood, but I loved it because I never had to tend the fire in the
> > middle of the night in deep winter.
> >
> > cp in bc
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary" <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2010 6:52 PM
> > Subject: [BP] Vermont store, porch decking
> >
> >
> >> Ruth
> >> A few folks recommended species of wood & milling specs for your
> >> store's porch deck. When I was faced with a similar task, I
> >> despaired that I couldn't get milled cottonwood (not poplar).
>
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