North Carolina The Southeast can grow a lumber tree in 35 years with 2 pulp harvests in between. Mostly Loblolly yellow pine. Oak grows just as fast as pine. Washington...about 55 to 80 years. Minnisota....90 to 150 years
Cut down a maple, poplar or gum and it's a shade tree again in 5-10 years....ya can't kill em. Don't mow the grass for 2 years and you need a big bush hog. Don't clean out the gutters every year and you get saplings growing in there in no time. A fig tree will grow almost a foot per month. Ode At 07:50 AM 11/14/2005 -0800, you wrote: > >Ode.... you mention tree farming/logging country; does that mean >Washington State? > >connie > > >On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 07:06:02 -0500 Ode Coyote <[email protected]> >writes: >> Living smack in the middle of tree farming/logging country, I >> estimated >> that I could have bought enough logs, cut and delivered, to build >> this >> small house for $3,000. >> I just couldn't figure out how to handle the tonnage by myself. >> >> ode >> >> At 10:46 PM 11/13/2005 -0600, you wrote: >> > >> >You may want to fumigate the Chinese shipping crates before using >> to get >> >rid of possible pests... >> > >> >Also, check out "papercrete" and "padobe", "rammed earth" and >> "cob". >> >Lots of interesting ways to build a house, depending on where you >> want >> >to live, and some are very cheap but labor intensive. >> > >> >Check out: >> > >> >http://www.northcoast.com/~tms/cheap.html >> > >> >http://www.livinginpaper.com/index.htm >> > >> >http://axwoodfarm.com/house/index.php?inc=5 >> > >> >How about this? (from the first link above) >> > >> >Travel-Trailer Homesteading Under $5,000 by Brian Kelling. UPDATED >> and >> >reprinted 8/1999. Tired of paying rent? Need privacy away from >> nosy >> >neighbors? This book will show how a modest financial investment >> can >> >enable you to place a travel-trailer or other RV on a suitable >> piece of >> >land and make the necessary improvements for a comfortable home in >> which >> >to live! This book covers the cost break-down, tools needed, how >> to >> >select the land and travel-trailer or rv, and how to install a >> septic >> >system, as well as water, power (including solar panels), heat and >> >refrigeration systems. 1995, 5x8, 80 pages, illustrated, indexed, >> soft >> >cover. #8006... $10.00... ORDER HERE >> > >> >Dan >> > >> > >> > >> >Subject: CSOde? Anyone? Ecologically sustainable housing?? >> >From: [email protected] >> >Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 10:32:21 EST >> >To: [email protected] >> > >> >Ode did I hear that you built your own house? Are you in the US? >> > >> >My husband and I are thinking of moving at the first of the year >> and >> >rather than buying an existing house we are throwing around the idea >> of >> >building one out of used/retired Chinese shipping crates. >> > >> >We need a pool because of his paralysis and I want to use ozone >> water >> >rather than chlorine. >> > >> >The people on this list are Oh! so wise! any ideas and words of >> wisdom >> >for solar panels vs. wind generators, water purifiers, well water >> and >> >cisterns etc? >> > >> >We also toyed with the idea of buying a retired ATT underground >> facility >> >or NIKE site but they are hard to find and are often prone to >> flooding >> >and government use restrictions. We may end up inheriting one. In >> this >> >case we will build a shipping crate house on top. Any input on >> house >> >buildin is appreciated. >> > >> >Harper >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> >-- >> >No virus found in this outgoing message. >> >Checked by AVG Free Edition. >> >Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.13.0/167 - Release Date: >> 11/11/2005 >> > >> > >> >-- >> >The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal >> Silver. >> > >> >Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: >> http://silverlist.org >> > >> >To post, address your message to: [email protected] >> >Silver List archive: >> http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html >> > >> >Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] >> >OT Archive: >> http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html >> > >> >List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]> >> > >> > >> > >> >-- >> >No virus found in this incoming message. >> >Checked by AVG Free Edition. >> >Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.13.0/167 - Release Date: >> 11/11/2005 >> > >> > >> > >> > >> >-- >> >No virus found in this incoming message. >> >Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. >> >Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.13.0 - Release Date: >> 11/11/2005 >> > >> > >> >> >> -- >> No virus found in this outgoing message. >> Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. >> Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.13.0 - Release Date: >> 11/11/2005 >> >> >> >> > > > >-- >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG Free Edition. >Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.13.0/167 - Release Date: 11/11/2005 > > > > >-- >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. >Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.13.0 - Release Date: 11/11/2005 > > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.13.1 - Release Date: 11/15/2005
