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There were very few trees suitable for cutting up into building timber.

Building timber had by then, been imported from the Baltic for two hundred years.

The tree trunks were used for building timber and firewood.

Oak building timber for houses and ships could not have been produced from island trees.

The building timbers have been dated by dendrochronology to 1486 and are particularly fine.

Long house construction did not require the large building timbers that were necessary to build English style houses and town buildings.

Steel was building timber lodges all over the yard.

The main uses are building timber and woodchipping.

'And plenty of this building timber,' Jazz added.

They were cut down for firewood, fence posts and short building timbers in the decades following settlement in 1659.

Historic illustrations do show some Asian carpenters hewing building timbers with an adz.

During the 1950s reconstruction of the White House, old building timber was salvaged and re-made into wall paneling.

During the period 1614 to 1623, documents record the sale of building timber and firewood from the Zerrahnschen Bergen.

S. lacrymans is the most serious cause of building timber decay in the UK and northern Europe.

Poplar cottage is a small building timber framed, thatched building dating from the seventeenth century.

Today Mr. Bohmert, who owns the business outright, specializes in building timber and steel floating docks.

When building timber steps, these treads can be filled in with compacted soil, finishing off with bark chippings.

It is not improbable that many specimens that issue in houses have been imported in building timber from abroad.' "

Logging flourished, with boards and building timber manufactured by the Libby and the Peabody lumber companies.

The timber industry has continued to supply building timber, garden timber and firewood with several sawmills operating in the area.

Armor scraps, leather straps and military stamps on building timbers suggest that the site was constructed using military labor (Brigham).

Sal, chir, deodar and sain yield building timber and railway sleepers.

During the seventeenth century it was reported that early Virginia settlers had to transport their building timber from west Cavan and Fermanagh.

The wood of the Apple Box is soft in comparison to other Eucalypts, and is considered poor for firewood or building timber.

It is used for furniture, posts, building lumber, and the production of charcoal.

The giant cypress trees were the first to be used for railroad ties and building lumber.

He went into carbon paper, then building lumber.

The Federal forests of the Northwest provide about 10 percent of the building lumber produced in this country.

Meder moved to Santa Cruz County and made a living building lumber mills and giving small loans on properties.

Wood is used for certain buildings and resources, and is harvested by clearing trees and building lumber mills and starting lumber contracts.

He experimented with 86 species of trees on Maui, such as eucalyptus, hoping to improve the watershed, and provide building lumber and fuel for the sugar refineries.

Yet they are still widely used in campgrounds because they are cheap and plentiful and not widely used in building lumber.

A wide variety of other blades is available for cutting almost every building material, including masonry, tile, light metal, plastic and even used building lumber that may contain buried nails.

Carts full of firewood rumbled slowly past at intervals in one direction, wagons loaded with building lumber in the other, the iron-shod wheels deafening on the cobbles.

But he was on Leif's ship, and if it hadn't been for us he'd have drowned, and we'd dumped a fortune in building lumber just to rescue them, so what could he do?

He invested a substantial amount of money to construct a sawmill to service the logging operations that harvested softwood timber for building lumber and Wood pulp for the manufacture of paper products.

The city was particularly active in shipping building lumber to California during the Gold Rush, via Cape Horn, before sawmills could be established in northern California, Oregon, and Washington.

Even the pleased-to-see-us wore off a bit when they found out that we'd ditched a holdful of building lumber in favour of fifteen destitute Norwegians who were going to need board and lodging until someone showed up who'd be prepared to take them home.

The California Gold Rush of 1849 and afterwards was a major boost to the lumber and coastal shipbuilding economies, as building lumber needed to be "shipped around the Horn" from Maine until the establishment of a West Coast sawmilling industry.