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Author : Oliver Rackham
Release : 2014
Genre : Ash (Plants)
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 143/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Ash Tree by : Oliver Rackham
Download or read book The Ash Tree written by Oliver Rackham. This book was released on 2014. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only book on The Ash Tree, an important book on this threatened species.
Author : Robert Penn
Release : 2015-10-29
Genre : Nature
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 523/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Man Who Made Things Out of Trees by : Robert Penn
Download or read book The Man Who Made Things Out of Trees written by Robert Penn. This book was released on 2015-10-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Penn cut down an ash tree to see how many things could be made from it. After all, ash is the tree we have made the greatest and most varied use of over the course of human history. Journeying from Wales across Europe and Ireland to the USA, Robert finds that the ancient skills and knowledge of the properties of ash, developed over millennia making wheels and arrows, furniture and baseball bats, are far from dead. The book chronicles how the urge to understand and appreciate trees still runs through us all like grain through wood.
Author : Mike Abbott
Release : 2013
Genre : House & Home
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 560/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Living Wood by : Mike Abbott
Download or read book Living Wood written by Mike Abbott. This book was released on 2013. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2002, Living Wood is both a practical manual and an inspirational guide, updating much of the information included in Mike's best-selling book Green Woodwork. Living Wood covers: • Becoming a green woodworke--Mike's story, from playing in the woodlands to owning a share in a woodland in Herefordshire • Buying, managing, and harvesting a woodland; • Developing woodland facilities, including tracks, steps, huts, a barn, a kitchen, and a compost toilet • Setting up a woodland workshop--plans for a shelter and updated designs for a shaving horse, a pole lathe, and other green wood-working tools and devices • Making ladder-back chairs, including cleaving, steam-bending, and techniques for ultra-tight joints without glue • Seating chairs with bark and with cord • A comprehensive list of suppliers, woodland organizations, and books Now in its fourth edition, Living Wood includes a selection of photographs of Mike’s latest workshop at Brookhouse Wood.
Author : Rafat Siddique
Release : 2007-11-13
Genre : Technology & Engineering
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 948/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Waste Materials and By-Products in Concrete by : Rafat Siddique
Download or read book Waste Materials and By-Products in Concrete written by Rafat Siddique. This book was released on 2007-11-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The amount and variety of waste that humanity dumps in landfill sites is nothing short of a scandal, believes Rafat Siddique, of Deemed University in Patiala, India. Instead, we ought to be building new homes out of it! Siddique shows in this important book that many non-hazardous waste materials and by-products which are landfilled, can in fact be used in making concrete and similar construction materials.
Author : Robert Penn
Release : 2016-07-25
Genre : Nature
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 740/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Man Who Made Things Out of Trees: The Ash in Human Culture and History by : Robert Penn
Download or read book The Man Who Made Things Out of Trees: The Ash in Human Culture and History written by Robert Penn. This book was released on 2016-07-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of how one man cut down a single tree to see how many things could be made from it. Out of all the trees in the world, the ash is most closely bound up with who we are: the tree we have made the greatest and most varied use of over the course of human history. One frigid winter morning, Robert Penn lovingly selected an ash tree and cut it down. He wanted to see how many beautiful, handmade objects could be made from it. Thus begins an adventure of craftsmanship and discovery. Penn visits the shops of modern-day woodworkers—whose expertise has been handed down through generations—and finds that ancient woodworking techniques are far from dead. He introduces artisans who create a flawless axe handle, a rugged and true wagon wheel, a deadly bow and arrow, an Olympic-grade toboggan, and many other handmade objects using their knowledge of ash’s unique properties. Penn connects our daily lives back to the natural woodlands that once dominated our landscapes. Throughout his travels—from his home in Wales, across Europe, and America—Penn makes a case for the continued and better use of the ash tree as a sustainable resource and reveals some of the dire threats to our ash trees. The emerald ash borer, a voracious and destructive beetle, has killed tens of millions of ash trees across North America since 2002. Unless we are prepared to act now and better value our trees, Penn argues, the ash tree and its many magnificent contributions to mankind will become a thing of the past. This exuberant tale of nature, human ingenuity, and the pleasure of making things by hand chronicles how the urge to understand and appreciate trees still runs through us all like grain through wood.
