Notre Dame cathedral...

[stihlmadasever]

Couldnt resist

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

50 minutes ago, Khriss said:

One thing in the French' favour is their Oak woodland management is pretty good. With modern milling and digital design, I think there is a good restoration result achievable.  K

And what a 'headline' example of the potential value / worth of forestry...

[Vespasian]

3 hours ago, Tommy_B said:

Vesp, you really are a twat aren't you.

 

So if you went out shopping and came home and found that your wife and kids and the rest of your family had been murdered, you go "thank Goodness I still have my house and my shed". Shut up you weapon grade stroker.

 False equivalence, I said some buildings are worth dying for .. ie some building are more important than people..  take Notre Dame for instance..  all over the news, now if your house burned down no one would give a monkeys...

 

I dare say if a rampaging mob was set on burning your house down you'd rope in a few friends to defend it..  if a mob was set on burning down the houses of Parliament there'ed be an army ready in waiting....   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Khriss]

1 hour ago, stihlmadasever said:

Couldnt resist

Topical AND tasteless poor Keith ! Not even cold in the ground ! K

[Gary Prentice]

6 hours ago, Khriss said:

One thing in the French' favour is their Oak woodland management is pretty good. With modern milling and digital design, I think there is a good restoration result achievable.  K

 

5 hours ago, kevinjohnsonmbe said:

And what a 'headline' example of the potential value / worth of forestry...

No way that they can exactly reproduce the roof timbers, the timber simply isn't there. 

http://fortune.com/2019/04/16/notre-dame-after-fire-rebuild/

[Rough Hewn]

French forests are very different to British.
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[Craig Johnson]

18 minutes ago, Rough Hewn said:

French forests are very different to British.

in the loire, they have a 300 year felling cycle on the oak, which has pine and beech planted as cover crop

[Rough Hewn]

in the loire, they have a 300 year felling cycle on the oak, which has pine and beech planted as cover crop

I was cutting on the border of Loire Atlantique and ille et villain.
Oak and Scots pine over storey with sweet chestnut and hazel under.
I've never seen such quantities of high grade trunks.
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[struie]

On 16/04/2019 at 12:47, tree-fancier123 said:

 

very very naughty

oh dear,politics n religion,well well.

[difflock]

I would set an Architectural competition for a design using glulam beams for a spacious airy design, like wot the Medevial craftsmen would have done like a shot, if they had had our materials and technology.

Or simply glulam the Oak into the sizes needed to recreate the medevial beams and woodwork.