As settlers trickled into the Great Plains during the mid and late 1800s, their first act of homesteading was often to build a rough shack out of cottonwood lumber — or to move into one abandoned by ...

How I built my sawmill: A deep dive into the process of constructing a sawmill. This video covers the steps involved in transforming logs into usable lumber. Chapters: 0:00 - Introduction 2:22 - ...

Q How much shrinkage in drying should we see in yellow-poplar and Eastern cottonwood lumber? A This sounds like an easy question to answer -- all I have to do is look up the numbers in a book. But ...