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Your Timber's Ready

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I've been reading an article about the timbers used in making wine barrels.
In it was a story about a Danish Forester telling the authorities, in the late 20th century, that the oak contracted for the navy was now ready.
It had been planted two centuries earlier under a Danish emergency planting programme, following the wholesale removal of all timbers from the sacked Danish shipyards by the Royal Navy in 1807.

Rod
 
I read somewhere that not long after news reached England of the battle of Hampton Roads in 1862 that a couple of wooden warships being built at the time were burnt on their slips. If only the Danes (among others) had known what was to come. I'm sure Oak Furnitureland will be glad of it though! :lol:
 
Rod":yhic0atb said:
I've been reading an article about the timbers used in making wine barrels.
In it was a story about a Danish Forester telling the authorities, in the late 20th century, that the oak contracted for the navy was now ready.
It had been planted two centuries earlier under a Danish emergency planting programme, following the wholesale removal of all timbers from the sacked Danish shipyards by the Royal Navy in 1807.

Rod
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