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Like most farmsteads all over the world, homes, workshops and
barns are made from natural local materials, but not all of
them with the distinctive and quirky style of this 1978
cordwood pottery shop in Bayfield County, Wisconsin, USA built
by Steve Dunker. If you are building with cords of wood
you should remove the bark and you must allow the logs to dry,
the length of time depends on the species of wood you are
using but softwoods are more suited to cordwood building.
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The video (above, right) shows a simple but very effective time
saving technique to cut cords of wood.
Richard Flatau, a renowned cordwood builder and author says, "The
debarked wood is dried just like any other piece of firewood.
Under protective cover, wood is typically dry in 6 to 12 months
depending upon the species and weather conditions. If you take two
pieces of wood and hit them against each other they should make a
'clinking' sound. If they make a 'thud', there probably still too
green."
Richard is a regular contributor to our
natural building group where he often shares his experience,
as do many other professional natural builders, with our 24,000+
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