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  • From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <venaurafarm@bellsouth.net>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Rounpole Construction
  • Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 15:04:34 -0400

Scott Vlaun wrote:
Hi Griffin

I built my house from primarily round poles. We've employed a few different joinery styles adapted from tradtional timber frame practices and have done smaller buildings with no real joinery.

You can see a couple of examples here.

http://www.moosepondarts.com/permaculture_buildings.html

Nice stone work on the 1st floor wall.
I assume you sre familiar with Helen and Scott Nearing's books.
He describes his home building adventures on his New England homestead utilizing a varieties of techniques, possibly some post and beam work
and his slipform masonry method of building free standing stone walls.

LL:..




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