[TheForge] recycling an abandoned farmstead / using recycled materials to build a new shed

[Andrew Vida]

terry l. ridder wrote:
> hello;
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> close to me is an abandoned farmstead. small two-story frame house with
> a small morton building off to back, roughly 13 mature trees. i would
> like to use recycled products in building the new shed so the old
> lumber in the house would be nice to use. i have searched on the
> internet and have not found anything on what should someone offer the
> owner of an abandon building or property for a structure that would be
> dismantled and recycled into a new structure. would anyone have
> suggestions as to what to offer for the abandoned house and trees?
> 
> my middle daughter is campaigning for a straw shed. frame construction
> with straw bales used for installation. the straw bales are covered with
> either stucco or a thin coat of cement. i could arrange for a nearby
> farmer to grow the wheat for me and harvest the wheat and the straw.

	If you are going to use straw bales, there are proper construction 
methods that should be used.  It is a brutally strong method if done 
right, and a disaster waiting to happen if not.