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It becomes somewhat of an emotional issue with timber harvesting .It areas such as the Carolinas they grow pines about like we grow corn,it's a cash crop .Simple as that .If they don't grow it ,it's kind of hard to trot on down to Lowes and buy a 2 by 4 . Hard woods are different but of course...

To me the regrowth of natural forestation is interesting . In Ohio for example it was once said a squirrel could traverse the tree tops from lake Erie to the Ohio river and never touch the ground . 200 years later the area I live in is maybe 20 percent wooded .However just let a piece of...

About these east coast big trees .Way back when they used to fall those big oaks from the great black swamp and somehow get them in the Ottawa river,then to the Maumee and to Lake Erie .Then into Canada to be sawn into lumber . Why they did it that way I have no clue . I wouldn't doubt that...

There's a little trick to setting up the air on forced draft coal burners .The smoke should just show a very slight brownish color if the air is correct .White too much air, black not enough . In a way if you think about it's kinds like setting a carb .

If history is correct for a period of time by royal degree the burning of wood was curtailed in London for fear they run out of lumber to make ships .As a result coal was used nearly choking out the inhabitents for a couple hundred years . I remember as a kid nearly everyone burned coal .The...

Pa was once the lumber capitol of the US before the western expansion .They used the big white pines for ships masts,100 plus footers .A typical mast was 3 feet at the bottom and 2 feet at the top . I recall reading about a huge oak maybe 125 foot clear span floated down some Pa river and...