*Caressing Redwoods*

[logsurfer]

Spending the last week amongst the Mighty Redwoods scoping land and kicking rocks...made me ponder the possibilities of using redwood trees as building options?? Perhaps not for RPSL's?? I wish there was Cedar in these Mts...Just wondering out loud...Makes me wish I could have had a camp out with Muir and just talk to the trees for a spell... instead I'll just settle for reading 'The Yosemite' ....I think Muir would dig the LHBA....Thoughts about Redwoods?

[Shark]

Thoughts? Just use 1.
http://www.digthatcrazyfarout.com/oneloghouse/

:)

[logsurfer]

Thoughts? Just use 1.
http://www.digthatcrazyfarout.com/oneloghouse/

:)

HA! Classic! I just passed by that one in Mendocino a few weeks back....Duly Noted! :D

[BillnChristi]

OMGosh! That is awesome! Bet I could do THAT one all by myself. :)

[LogSurfer2]

So I read in an e-mail from a local "logger" that I contacted, redwood isn't a great option for log homes, something to do with their inner sap layers leading to possible rot....here's an excerpt.... "Redwood has a sapwood layer over the heartwood core of the log that could get sour and rot or allow bug infestation (unless treated)." So all in all probably a less desirable breed of tree....

[WNYcabinplannin]

Wouldn't it be as good as cedar if it was treated with the home made borate/glycol?
When I lived in NorCal, I drooled over all the redwood logs on the trucks up the Mendo coast. Dreams of bribing a trucker for one truckload of 20' logs to make a redwood minicabin...
I'm sure it'd be expensive now, and you probably couldn't even cut your own there if you bought land with redwoods on it...?

[Scoutman]

A friend of mine has an older brother that does helicopter logging in NorCal. Says he can get 5k for a tree. WOW!

[loghousenut]

The beauty of the LHBA system is the ability to use "junk" logs and turn them into a home. Redwood is fine for a house but, if you have a bunch of marketable redwood, you could either keep it or sell it and build with what most of the locals consider "junk" timber. In our case we used 58 unmarketable Ponderosa Pines that were crooked, tapered, nasty, and just plain ugly. We turned them into a structure that will eventually be a home for an American family for the next 75 years or more. May I add that it will be a neat looking house when it is done.

Don't worry about the sapwood on the redwood. Once you sell them to the mill you will be ready to find the logs to build with. If you decide to build with th e redwood, you'll do fine. it only has to last 75 years or so and you will be ahead of the game.


http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t55/loghousenut/Wow/Rooffinally035.jpg

[WNYcabinplannin]

I believe it ! This video, the guys says it's a 22,000# helicopter that lifts 26,000 pound logs. That sounds like a lot of premium lumber.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_tzgHOBPPA&feature=related

here's one picking redwoods near Eureka, Ca.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-Uyhmzg0Yk

Sometimes, heading up to the Lost Coast for diving, every 4th vehicle on the road was loaded with redwood. that was 1990-99. I wonder if it still looks like that? I haven't been to Shelter Cove in 12 years...
This is making me hanker for a dive trip...

[logsurfer]

I believe it ! This video, the guys says it's a 22,000# helicopter that lifts 26,000 pound logs. That sounds like a lot of premium lumber.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_tzgHOBPPA&feature=related

here's one picking redwoods near Eureka, Ca.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-Uyhmzg0Yk

Sometimes, heading up to the Lost Coast for diving, every 4th vehicle on the road was loaded with redwood. that was 1990-99. I wonder if it still looks like that? I haven't been to Shelter Cove in 12 years...
This is making me hanker for a dive trip...

Bro that's Crazy Cool! Whoa!

[logsurfer]

The beauty of the LHBA system is the ability to use "junk" logs and turn them into a home. Redwood is fine for a house but, if you have a bunch of marketable redwood, you could either keep it or sell it and build with what most of the locals consider "junk" timber. In our case we used 58 unmarketable Ponderosa Pines that were crooked, tapered, nasty, and just plain ugly. We turned them into a structure that will eventually be a home for an American family for the next 75 years or more. May I add that it will be a neat looking house when it is done.

Don't worry about the sapwood on the redwood. Once you sell them to the mill you will be ready to find the logs to build with. If you decide to build with th e redwood, you'll do fine. it only has to last 75 years or so and you will be ahead of the game.


http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t55/loghousenut/Wow/Rooffinally035.jpg

My oh my...That is a Knotty naughty nice log. They don't look nasty in the least?? Hours buffing-sanding? Just plain Wow. I want that :)

[lilbluehonda]

I've watched Columbia and Erickson air crane,Erickson has a hydraulic grapple and they can pick up logs faster the Grapple operator sits backwards and below the cock pit and he can look right at the log while grabbing it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK4Nm74nHMU

[loghousenut]

My oh my...That is a Knotty naughty nice log. They don't look nasty in the least?? Hours buffing-sanding? Just plain Wow. I want that :)

Our logs were too knotty and too tapered and too ugly for use as a log house using most methods of building. If we had milled them flat and stacked them they woulda looked like the biggest pile of crap this side of Washington DC. If we had tried to make saddle notched log home with these logs it woulda turned out to be a bigger disaster than living in a trailer house built in the 1970's. The LHBA system simply allows us to use most any log we can find to cut down and peel.

This is how ugly, twisty, nasty logs look after they have been stacked in the LHBA fashion and left to mildew in the weather for one winter and then pressure washed. The system works! And Redwood would be fine.

http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t55/loghousenut/Wow/Rooffinally042-1.jpg

[edkemper]

> Columbia and Erickson air crane

These guys got the job of clearing a recovering area of fire damage in the Sierras a few years back. Got to watch them for hours over weeks. Their landing pad was up the road we use to get to one of our hunting areas. These types of heavy lifting helicopters are very cool to watch firsthand. Very big and very powerful.

[Stenman]

All the heart grade redwood cut in the last 30 years has been shipped over to Japan. What you find now are tree sprouts that are growing back from the stumps cut 60-100 years ago and that is why you see them in a ring. This wood is no more pest resistant than pine. Old growth redwood and old growth cypress don't exist and alternative materials will work better and last longer than what is being falsely labeled and sold today by lumber yards.