On Mon, 17 Apr 2006 21:43:10 -0700, Ruth Barton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Lady, I'm a fur piece from Kentuck, up heah we burn cordwood we don't
>repair it. The Hick
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Hi Ruth and Ralph and Chrif and all y'all,
(I'm allowed to say y'all now that I'm living in KY.)
Anyway, Rudy is on track, I am living in a former mud hippie den. ;)
Actually, the organization I'm working for was, in a former life, intensely
interested in promoting alternative, natural, local, or salvaged building
materials. My house is a 1200 sf cordwood, built with white oak salvaged
after a tornado on-site in the late 70's. I think there is the possibility
that the house was actually featured in one of the foxfire articles. It was
all hand sawed, and the 2-man saw is hanging on the wall. Big sucker.
It probably isn't appropriate in this warm humid climate - most of the old
old cordwoods I've heard about were built in cold dry climes by Finns or
Swedes. My daughter observed that they ought to be building them in
Mississippi anyway, what with all the ruined timber on the ground down there.
You can see more about cordwood by visiting:
http://www.cordwoodmasonry.com/Cordwood.html
There is a picture of my house on our website:
http://www.a-spi.org
Rudy, most of the cordwood houses I've read about are timberframed, and then
the cordwood is infill stacked. THIS house is an oval, and the walls are
loadbearing. (!!) There is a spot low on one of the curves that has bad rot
in about 15 of the sticks, and they need to be pulled out and replaced.
Preferably before the next tornado comes down the valley! (Can you imagine
anything worse than being surrounded by swirling 16" chunks of firewood? I'd
end up looking like the bass of bass-o-matic fame...)
I can't afford Rob Roy. Do you know anybody closer, who could work with me
on this? I was thinking about turning it into a workshop; I get one or two
inquiries a month about that here, and folks drive by and stop and ask
questions about the house all the time. Lotsa ppl here have more forest than
cash, so they are interested in building their own.
Ralph, Ise doing fairly well, and thanks for asking. ;) Y'all come visit,
y'heah?
XOXO
~deb
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