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Very interesting video about the American chestnut
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<blockquote data-quote="utvolsfan77" data-source="post: 5282316" data-attributes="member: 14847"><p>BSK, you are 100% totally right about that. A few months after I retired from the Army and moved back to Tennessee, I got hit with a surprise divorce that I never saw coming. Out of necessity, I moved into my maternal grandparent's old farmhouse (my mother & her three younger sisters' childhood home) that had been vacant for over 10 years.</p><p></p><p>Some of you may remember my post earlier in this thread about my ancestors being loggers. Well, my grandfather and my grandmother's oldest brother, who had just returned from Europe shortly after WWII ended, built that house from the ground up, framing, laying the brick, everything, including all wiring and plumbing. around late 1948 or early 1949. Those two men used one of those old crosscut saws to cut tulip poplar trees on a "knob" about half a mile from the building site. They then used a team of mules to move the logs to a field adjacent to the build site, where they used a horse-powered saw mill to mill the logs into usable lumber.</p><p></p><p>While I lived there, I did some minor renovations and updates to make the house a bit more energy efficient. I broke more than a few drill bits and jigsaw blades in the process. Let me tell you, poplar lumber that has dried for close to 75 years <strong>IS</strong> as hard as any oak I've ever seen. Unfortunately, the tornadoes that hit Greene County in 2011 pretty much destroyed it, blowing out the entire north side of the house and making it economically unrepairable. Fortunately, I salvaged about 500 board feet of that popular lumber and currently have it stickered in my basement. One day I hope to have time to build something from it in remembrance of my grandparents.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="utvolsfan77, post: 5282316, member: 14847"] BSK, you are 100% totally right about that. A few months after I retired from the Army and moved back to Tennessee, I got hit with a surprise divorce that I never saw coming. Out of necessity, I moved into my maternal grandparent's old farmhouse (my mother & her three younger sisters' childhood home) that had been vacant for over 10 years. Some of you may remember my post earlier in this thread about my ancestors being loggers. Well, my grandfather and my grandmother's oldest brother, who had just returned from Europe shortly after WWII ended, built that house from the ground up, framing, laying the brick, everything, including all wiring and plumbing. around late 1948 or early 1949. Those two men used one of those old crosscut saws to cut tulip poplar trees on a "knob" about half a mile from the building site. They then used a team of mules to move the logs to a field adjacent to the build site, where they used a horse-powered saw mill to mill the logs into usable lumber. While I lived there, I did some minor renovations and updates to make the house a bit more energy efficient. I broke more than a few drill bits and jigsaw blades in the process. Let me tell you, poplar lumber that has dried for close to 75 years [B]IS[/B] as hard as any oak I've ever seen. Unfortunately, the tornadoes that hit Greene County in 2011 pretty much destroyed it, blowing out the entire north side of the house and making it economically unrepairable. Fortunately, I salvaged about 500 board feet of that popular lumber and currently have it stickered in my basement. One day I hope to have time to build something from it in remembrance of my grandparents. [/QUOTE]
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