Subject: RE: [baidarka] Importing yellow cedar
From: kschmidt (kschmidt@akutan.aesd.schoolaccess.net)
Date: Tue Oct 05 2004 - 01:31:26 EDT
John,
The only PATHOGEN I know of is the 28% tariff imposed by the Bush
administration for importing Canadian Softwoods into the US. Punish
the US citizens to get the materials they need.... especially when
the US does not offer an equal quality alternative... go figure.
Kurt
>Careful about bringing the wood products across (importing) the border. My
>work and research deal with invasive species issues and while it is out of
>my particular area of expertise I know that there are a lot of rules in
>place to prevent the movement of forest pathogens. As one example, here in
>California we have quarantines in place that prohibit the movement of wood
>products from any host species out of counties where oak trees are infected
>with sudden oak death disease.
>
>John Gerlach
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-baidarka@paddlewise.net
>[mailto:owner-baidarka@paddlewise.net]On Behalf Of John Petersen
>Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 7:26 PM
>To: baidarka@paddlewise.net
>Subject: RE: [baidarka] Good cheap wood
>
>
>Hi Patric,
>
>If your yellow cedar is still available,what are you asking for it?
>
>John Petersen
>Thousand Oaks,CA
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-baidarka@paddlewise.net
>[mailto:owner-baidarka@paddlewise.net]On Behalf Of Peter Chopelas
>Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 7:04 PM
>To: baidarka@paddlewise.net
>Subject: Re: [baidarka] Good cheap wood
>
>
>Patric wrote:
>
>> I live 10 minutes from a three
>> cedar mills in lower British Columbia. Does anyone want 23 ft lengths
>> of green, clear yellow cedar, rough or nominal?
>
>What part of BC? I live about 1.5 hours south of the border and get up that
>way every once in a while. I would be happy to take whatever yellow cedar
>you have off your hands, kind of rare and pricy around here in western WA.
>I found it works really great for rib stock, even better than bending oak.
>Light and rot resistant too! I love it. I am just finishing a play boat
>out of all red ceder, with yellow cedar ribs: 12' 6" x 21". I wonder how
>the yellow cedar works for coaming?
>
>> BTW, I have read somewhere that the bifid badarka bows [nice
>> alliteration there] results in a pretty hollow shape to the bow which
>> assists in climbing over waves. Has anyone tried sewing a line of
>> stitches to somehow duplicate this flared bow? Has anyone seen any
>> bifid canoes?
>>
>
>Bill Low of Willow Kayaks does this, he has a web site with pictures. He
>says it work as well, and is stronger and easier to stich. I am not sure
>how useful it would be in a canoe, without a deck when you punch through
>waves you would fill and swamp the boat before it can rise up out of the
>wave. I would think the idea with a canoe, as a big cargo hauler, is that
>there is enough volume in the bow to keep it up out of the water. If you
>build a hybred, a narrower canoe with a fore deck it would probably work
>well.
>
>
>> And theres only been one flame war in that time.
>
>now, now, it did not quite degenerate that level...yet.
>
>Peter
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