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« Reply #180 on Aug 7, 2011, 4:30pm »		[Quote]
You'll be pleased to know that the price was reduced from something like 800€ to 350€. I don't know if he is still waiting for a new home.
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« Reply #182 on Sept 26, 2011, 5:33pm »		[Quote]
Will this wood also be looking for a new home? Or destined for the landfill, or a bonfire?
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« Reply #183 on Sept 26, 2011, 5:39pm »		[Quote]
It is the beams of a 100-150 year old building that has been demolished.
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« Reply #184 on Sept 26, 2011, 5:40pm »		[Quote]
Is no one rushing to claim the beams to give new construction the veneer of authenticity?
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« Reply #185 on Sept 26, 2011, 5:46pm »		[Quote]
Frankly, it is not a rare commodity in Europe. Maybe it is time for us to start an import-export company for old wood, the same way certain people use old bricks.
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« Reply #186 on Sept 26, 2011, 5:54pm »		[Quote]
Lots of demand for old industrial building wood around here. The big beams in old warehouses and scuffed and gouged floorboards are avidly sought after for use in high-end new construction. Those trees were harvested back when there were still big old trees to cut, they aren't making them like that anymore.
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« Reply #187 on Sept 26, 2011, 7:37pm »		[Quote]
Something old:

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and something new:

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though actually the trees this firewood comes from died long ago.

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« Reply #188 on Sept 26, 2011, 7:47pm »		[Quote]
Looks brand new to me, you tree murderer!
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« Reply #189 on Sept 26, 2011, 8:10pm »		[Quote]
Well, if we can believe the firewood cutter we buy it from, the wood is from standing dead larch that were killed during the fires of 1910! Which makes the wood over 100 years old. The very low humidity in the mountains would keep it from rotting, but I don't know what would keep the trees standing for so long. Wouldn't their roots rot?
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« Reply #190 on Sept 26, 2011, 9:04pm »		[Quote]

Sept 26, 2011, 5:54pm, kimby wrote:
Lots of demand for old industrial building wood around here. The big beams in old warehouses and scuffed and gouged floorboards are avidly sought after for use in high-end new construction. Those trees were harvested back when there were still big old trees to cut, they aren't making them like that anymore.


Same here in WA. The floor beams in old buildings (here that'd mean only 100-150 years) cut from first growth trees can be up to three feet wide(!). They are usually in almost perfect condition too when the buildings are demolished. Those are unobtainium nowadays and highly sought after.
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« Reply #192 on Oct 11, 2011, 4:13am »		[Quote]
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Found in an old blacksmith's forge.
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« Reply #194 on Nov 8, 2011, 3:42pm »		[Quote]
That is a truly great photograph. Obviously the subject matter is interesting, but apart from that -- great photograph!
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« Reply #195 on Nov 21, 2011, 10:38am »		[Quote]
I wonder if the tenants on the other side of that wall feel re-assured? Great Photo!
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« Reply #196 on Nov 26, 2011, 3:02pm »		[Quote]
Bench at the Skukuza Golf Club.
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Jan 10, 2011, 6:03pm, kimby wrote:
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I can't imagine where this image #148 on p.5
has got to, I haven't done any deleting on imagebank...
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This fallen-down log cabin was built to house wood-cutters for the big smelter stack in the town 12 miles away...


(I initially set out to make this a photograph for the moon and stars thread, till I realized that I framed it up without the moon in it! Oops.)
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« Reply #200 on Jan 11, 2012, 9:07pm »		[Quote]
#198 is delightfully odd, no detraction from the more classic #199 intended.
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Jan 11, 2012, 9:07pm, kerouac2 wrote:
#198 is delightfully odd

That stump washed ashore somewhere on Australia's North Queensland coast...Or was it New Zealand? The trips begin to blur together.
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« Reply #202 on Jan 21, 2012, 8:50pm »		[Quote]
Another gorgeous natural sculpture, Kimby. The log cabin is lovely, as well.
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« Reply #204 on Jan 21, 2012, 10:57pm »		[Quote]
Oooh! Nice!
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« Reply #205 on Jan 22, 2012, 12:14am »		[Quote]
Good grief -- world class, NYCGirl!
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« Reply #206 on Jan 24, 2012, 4:28am »		[Quote]
NYCGirls picture loaded from top down and the first half definitely looked like it didn't belong in this thread, but the bottom half won me over. Great photo!
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« Reply #207 on Jan 24, 2012, 5:59am »		[Quote]
You mean those bluish things in the background are not big stumps, too? ???
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« Reply #208 on Jan 25, 2012, 4:04am »		[Quote]
Thanks, everyone!

I don't have access to the beautiful types of wood you come across, Kimby, but I try. :)
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« Reply #209 on Jan 25, 2012, 4:26pm »		[Quote]
The variety of photos and varying interpretations of the themes are what make these photo threads on Any Port so intriguing. Your photo above NYCG is one of the best!
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