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Knowledge and Strength of Mother Nature

4/12/2018

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I want to thank all who supported my writing efforts and also those who act kindly towards Mother Nature. Thank you to the universe for the knowledge and strength which I am allowed to pass on in this way.
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Woodworking Methods Harmonious with Nature

4/12/2018

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Networking

​After our small saw mill began to adopt wood-working methods in harmony with nature's seasonal cycles, more and more people supported us in many different ways. Amazement, joy and gratitude is resulting into a steadily growing network. If you would like to contribute your personal experience or interesting story about 'Living with Timber', please send us your contributions.
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Wooden Buildings as Varied as Nature Herself

4/9/2018

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You can observe a different tone of colour on every elevation of the building, as varied as nature herself. Why are we so unimaginative and insist that all walls of our buildings have to be the same colour? 

​2. Visual changes caused by the sun
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Wooden Deck Built with Spruce and Pine

3/16/2018

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Here are some examples:

A wooden deck outdoors built with fast grown Spruce and Pine (harvested in spring or summer) and with water pooling on it, can easily break down after just three years.
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Heating Up Wood for Core Treatments

3/16/2018

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If you heat up the infested parts (right into the core of the wood) for more than three hours and above 55'C, all insect life dies! Smaller pieces like furniture can be put into the sauna or a kiln for treatment. 
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Local Carpenters and Wood Workers

3/15/2018

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It only attacks conifers and not hardwood and needs small cracks and tears to deposit its eggs. Dressed beams make it very hard for it to breed. It is very territorial and in towns where it is unknown, it is unlikely to just appear. Speak to local carpenters and wood workers to find out if there are any known infestations in your area.
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Heat Treatment for Wood Infestations

3/15/2018

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In case treatment is necessary, heat treatment is very successful (look at the House Longhorn Beetle).

​House Longhorn Beetle
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High Quality Green Building Material

10/6/2017

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The second tree of these two Celtic maples was more fortunate. A spruce has grown just under it and absorbed the forces of the cliff edge. The maple was able to grow straight and free of tension. This stability and harmony continues to reproduce itself throughout the tree, up into its crown and results in the quality wood we like to use.

The art of forestry is about working with this extraordinary process instead of hindering it. Nature really doesn't need human intervention.
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High Quality Wood for Green Buildings

10/6/2017

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The first maple tree has accomplished its job. It is deeply rooted, has stabilized the earth and keeps it from slipping. However, this struggle has left marks on the stem and wood. Even though it has grown in a tree community which is perfect for maple trees, I would not use its wood for difficult tasks like long and wide floor boards or glass frame.
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Best Quality Prefab Solid Wood Homes

10/6/2017

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Through pushing and stemming, the fine roots spread and dfer the heavy load of the growing tree into the slippery hill side or cliff. When they explore deeper soil levels, they carefully include any bump and little pebble. The constant nutrient exchange between roots and soil stabilizes and renews the forest floor even in initially depleted areas and facilitates growth.
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Incredible Pure Clean Air Quality with Wood

10/6/2017

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The way the tree is rooted in the ground is a deciding factor for the straightness and growth of the fiber and its quality.

Let's look at the two maples. Both seedlings landed in a difficult location at the edge of the cliff. The increasing weight of the growing trees will cause the cliff edge to give way, therefore the roots and the trunks need to balance these forces.
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Energy Efficient Lifestyle with Prefab Solid Wood

10/6/2017

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This load increases many times when the tree carries snow or its crown is bent by the forces of a storm.

The small tree grew into a structural wonder. No building engineer in the world is able to transfer the weight of these buildings as ingenious as trees do via their root systems.

Its brother was luckier; a spruce tree (to the right) allowed it to grow straight.
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Green Lifestyles for the Environment

10/6/2017

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The trials of growing at the edge of a cliff are inscribed in the twisted grow of a Maple tree.

​These illustrations are the real drawings of two Celtic maple trees which both grow on the same cliff edge above a creek. To grow at this abyss, the roots which first held the sprout when it only weighed a few grams eventually has to defer the weight of a five to ten-ton adult tree into the ground.
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Sustainable Lifestyle with Green Buildings

10/6/2017

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(In Austria and Germany, only half of the yearly re-growth in forests is being used for manufacturing. The rest stays in the forests to provide shelter and nutrition for young trees. Just in Austria alone, it takes approximately two minutes to grow enough timber for a single family home! That would amount to 260,000 homes per year. If all of these houses were built, it would take 30 years to house every Austrian, from small child to old age in a solid, wooden house.)
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Green Lifestyle with Solid Wood Buildings

10/6/2017

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In a human family, every member has different tendencies and skills. In the forest too, we need to find the best musicians for the orchestra, the most skilled people for trades, and academics for intellectual work and so on.

The following example of two Celtic maples growing right next to each other shows that they are not necessarily the same quality and grow equally.
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Healthy and Safe Lifestyle with Holz100

10/6/2017

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Two Brothers Standing at the Abyss

When working with natural materials o trying to understand human nature, we always need to observe and tune into each being anew and avoid generalizing.

The previous elaborations about spruce monocultures and mixed forests communities shouldn't lead us to the conclusion that all natural forests consist only of 'violin wood'. 
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Healthy, Green & Safe Walls Made of Moonwood

10/3/2017

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- The traditional wisdom of our grandparents needs to be recorded and passed on to the next generation. As has been practice for hundreds of years, the old forester Fritz Loeffler artfully covered his stack with tree bark to keep his fire wood dry. 

- The scent of Swiss Pine repels insects from grain stored in this wooden trunk.

- Parquet flooring made of cherry tree and alpine maple; all floors from Thoma Holz100 are made of pure moonwood.
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Sound and Radiation Proof Wood Walls

10/3/2017

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- The sun's radiation causes the different effects depending on the orientation. The left side faces south and the right side east.

- The Holz100 system merges traditional and modern building methods.

- It looks like a 'normal' Timber / Wood building. However, it is a Holz100 building with solid 360mm thick exterior walls.

- Dr. Thoma's grandfather skillfully used simple wooden hand tools for decades.
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Long Lasting Durable Solid Wood Walls

10/3/2017

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(Old roof shingles made of Larch - the wood turning grey effectively protects it from weathering.)

(Here the yearly growth rings are clearly visible.)

Wood harvested at the right time, naturally dried and professionally crafted will last for centuries without being treated.
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Prefab Solid Wood Wall for Green Homes

10/3/2017

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The further away from its natural environment a spruce has been planted, such as warmer, low-lying areas, the more susceptible it is to diseases and pests.

Forestry management in Austria has learned this over the past few years. Today, a conscious and aware forester would not plant monocultures of trees which might not even be native to the area. Quite the opposite, today monocultures are being converted back into mixed forests.
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Modern Technology and Green Building

10/3/2017

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It took the forestry industry decades of planting monocultures before they began to realize that these unnatural plantings had many disadvantages. In a monoculture, the forest floor is no longer penetrated and infiltrated with a diversity of roots and the mulch produces mostly acidic soil. Those trees then become more susceptible to insects infestation, fungus, storms and heavy snow load.​
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Sustainable Wood Engineering Technology

10/3/2017

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You won't find any pure coniferous forests below the 3,000 - 4,000 ft. (1100-1200 meters) altitude and certainly not pure spruce forests. Coniferous forests with spruce, pine and larch trees grow best at higher altitudes such as in the Alps and in the northern European regions.
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New Technology for Solid Wood Building

10/3/2017

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The healthiest and best-adapted natural forests which have emerged over thousands of years were cut down in just one or two generations. What has re-grown since then are not wonderful mixed woods but sickly monocultures of trees foreign to the area and soil conditions.
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Future Technology for Wood Building Materials

10/3/2017

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A very one-sided economic approach contributed to the conversion from naturally mixed forests to monocultures, of mainly spruce trees. Until the 1970s, University classes taught that spruce trees were the 'bread and butter' of the forestry industry.
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Advanced Technology meets Tradition

10/3/2017

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We still can find natural tree families in untouched and remote forests.

​Even though we are now being taught about the importance of natural woods as part of forestry studies, it was forestry people who, in the past two centuries, have changed large parts of te middle European woods.
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    • Our Company
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      • Holz100 is #1
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