Re: WW1 to WW2 era lumber shortages- for the misinformed

["Stanley Barthfarkle" <sbarth@xxxxxxxxx>]

http://www.kuffelcreek.com/1920's_construction.htm

Here ya go. Look's easy to wire....


BTW- My wife's from Nagogdoches. They call the forests there the "Piney
Woods". It's essentially the other end of the Ozark mountain range. One of
the many forest areas in North America that were heavily depleted. Following
WW1, housing demand was up, labor costs were up, lumber production was down
due to scarcity of supply and transportation costs, but demand shot up,
causing prices to double or triple. Folks built smaller and/or built with
less costly materials and used methods which reduced labor costs. reinforced
concrete, bricks, stone, stell, and slab construction during this time were
very common. I've worked in dozens of homes built during this era, and they
are more difficult to wire than Post WW2 homes. Much more difficult, in many
cases.

If you believe that older homes are "almost as easy" as wiring a newer home,
you're not only mistaken, but you're obviously overstating your actual
experience with homes from that era.

I'm done with the thread. Everyone already knows you're a know-it-all
hot-air-spewing self-serving idiot, so any further revelation of your
obvious lack of knowledge of,  a)- early 20th century North American
dwelling construction,  b)- designing and installing low voltage systems in
aforementioned dwellings,  c)- simple American history vis-a-vis lumber
shortages during/shortly after WW1 (and during the depression, and during
WW2), or  d)- how to avoid showing everyone how truly ignorant you are of
the very things you espouse to be so 'knowlegeable' of, is unnecessary.

Go have a donut, and contemplate the center of that donut very carefully.
This represents the value of your self-serving contributions to this group.