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  • From: venaurafarm <venaurafarm@bellsouth.net>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Double pane plastic windows?
  • Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 15:31:57 -0500

On 1/22/2013 1:00 PM, Cliff Davis wrote:
What about good old cedar, black locust or sassafras. Not only do we not
know the effects of PT wood it feeds the desmon of industrial logging and
forestry management practices better known as clear cut which creates
deserts. Just sayin! Look around. Are there any mills near you?

All those would be just fine and would probably last almost as long as NT pressure treated.

Eastern Red Cedar, Cypress, recycled redwood, western cedar, locust
are extremely valuable economic and construction tree species.
Red cedar is considered by the uninformed as almost a weed and huge quantities of saw timber grade cader are wasted every year.
If you can cut adequate caliper trees and have them sawed into lumber
by a mobile bandsaw sawmill you will be in luck. Look hard enough and you can find both in your area. That's just about the only way you'll get rot resistant lumber that is dimensionally accurate enough to use in serious construction, greenhouse, cold frame, sunspace or skylight.





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