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Posted by kerouac2 on Aug 7, 2011, 4:30pm

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.

Posted by kerouac2 on Sept 26, 2011, 5:05pm

Posted by kimby on Sept 26, 2011, 5:33pm

Will this wood also be looking for a new home? Or destined for the landfill, or a bonfire?

Posted by kerouac2 on Sept 26, 2011, 5:39pm

It is the beams of a 100-150 year old building that has been demolished.

Posted by kimby on Sept 26, 2011, 5:40pm

Is no one rushing to claim the beams to give new construction the veneer of authenticity?

Posted by kerouac2 on Sept 26, 2011, 5:46pm

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.

Posted by kimby on Sept 26, 2011, 5:54pm

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.

Posted by kimby on Sept 26, 2011, 7:37pm

Something old:

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and something new:

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

Posted by kerouac2 on Sept 26, 2011, 7:47pm

Looks brand new to me, you tree murderer!

Posted by kimby on Sept 26, 2011, 8:10pm

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?

Posted by fumobici on Sept 26, 2011, 9:04pm

Sept 26, 2011, 5:54pm, kimby wrote:

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.

Posted by kimby on Oct 10, 2011, 10:18pm

Posted by kimby on Oct 11, 2011, 4:13am

Found in an old blacksmith's forge.

Posted by kerouac2 on Nov 7, 2011, 3:09pm

Posted by bixaorellana on Nov 8, 2011, 3:42pm

That is a truly great photograph. Obviously the subject matter is interesting, but apart from that -- great photograph!

Posted by tod2 on Nov 21, 2011, 10:38am

I wonder if the tenants on the other side of that wall feel re-assured? Great Photo!

Posted by tod2 on Nov 26, 2011, 3:02pm

Bench at the Skukuza Golf Club.
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Posted by kimby on Dec 29, 2011, 9:25pm

Jan 10, 2011, 6:03pm, kimby wrote:

I can't imagine where this image #148 on p.5
has got to, I haven't done any deleting on imagebank...

Posted by kimby on Dec 29, 2011, 9:33pm

Posted by kimby on Jan 11, 2012, 8:58pm

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.)

Posted by kerouac2 on Jan 11, 2012, 9:07pm

#198 is delightfully odd, no detraction from the more classic #199 intended.

Posted by kimby on Jan 11, 2012, 9:18pm

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.

Posted by nycgirl7664 on Jan 21, 2012, 8:50pm

Another gorgeous natural sculpture, Kimby. The log cabin is lovely, as well.

Posted by nycgirl7664 on Jan 21, 2012, 10:04pm

Posted by kerouac2 on Jan 21, 2012, 10:57pm

Oooh! Nice!

Posted by bixaorellana on Jan 22, 2012, 12:14am

Good grief -- world class, NYCGirl!

Posted by kimby on Jan 24, 2012, 4:28am

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!

Posted by kerouac2 on Jan 24, 2012, 5:59am

You mean those bluish things in the background are not big stumps, too?

Posted by nycgirl7664 on Jan 25, 2012, 4:04am

Thanks, everyone!

I don't have access to the beautiful types of wood you come across, Kimby, but I try.

Posted by kimby on Jan 25, 2012, 4:26pm

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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