LOCAL PROJECT
After long conversations and several cups of coffee , the owner of the land agreed on a price to sell the timber , as he wanted to clear the alien vegetation from his property . I made an inventory of the trees , spent a couple of days in the forest , numbered , recorded the sizes , and estimated useable lengths .
The trees where originally planted about 100 years ago for honey production . Since then , they have self-seeded and invaded the surrounding indigenous forest , and today pose a risk to biodiversity .
Log home building is not rocket science – it is simply stacking timber .
A tree is at its lowest value when standing in the forest .
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