[Greenbuilding] [BULK] Re: Using trees felled onsite in building process

[Speireag Alden]

Sgrìobh Lawrence Lile:

>Most species are usable in houses.  Oaks present some concern 
>because they eventually get some kind of beetle in the wood that 
>will weaken them.  It may take many many years for this to happen. 
>Inspectors start frothing at the mouth in some areas when they hear 
>about oak.

     Is this all oaks, or just some?  Anyone known the name of the 
beetle?  Is it universal?

     All of my beams are of oak, whether in the round or built-up. 
And all of my posts, in the addition, are going to be oak...

>Many people successfully use oak in houses, don't shy away from it, 
>but plan it so the beam *could* be replaced without open-heart house 
>surgery sometime in the future.

     This is sound advice in any case.  You never know what's going to 
happen, and building for easy repair is a good call.

     Not that I did that the first time, but I'll be closer to it this 
time around...

-Speireag.

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Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the 
injury that provokes it.
--Lucius Annaeus Seneca, philosopher (BCE 3-65 CE)