That's a lot of wood!

[hobbes]

If you live in Sweden or Denmark, does this stockpile make it much cheaper to buy wood? It's sad to see so many trees downed but as a wood worker this is like the biggest jackpot of stock ever to become available.

http://gizmodo.com/5909847/you-have-never-seen-so-much-wood-in-your-entire-life

 

[RC]

At least this hasn't been visible here in the neighbouring country (Finland) - actually quite the contrary - wood prices seem to be creeping up constantly.

 

[Kev]

That much wood plays with the mind! They're big tree's (maybe 7.5 cubic metres of timber each ... for easy math) ... maybe ten million trees and at least a few thousand square kilometres of growth.

Are Swedish saw blade futures listed on the futures exchange ?  [eek]

 

[CharlesWilson]

All that carbon. How are they going to prevent it from combining with oxygen as the wood decays?

There go any carbon credits that they thought they had, up into the atmosphere.

 

[Kev]

All that carbon. How are they going to prevent it from combining with oxygen as the wood decays?

There go any carbon credits that they thought they had, up into the atmosphere.

Nah - that classifies as an NCD (Natural Carbon Disaster) doesn't count  [wink]

 

[Kristian]

I don't know how big the impact was on prices here in Denmark. We import a lot of both pine and fir from Sweden but then again, they produce a lot. What fell during the storm equals the amount that Sweden produces each year. Maybe the prices fell when it happened but today I think we're back to regular prices.

I remember the storm, it was brutal. My nephew was baptized that month and the church was located in the middle of a forest. Two days before we had to chainsaw our way through several trees to clear the road to the church.  [smile]

It's here btw. An old closed down landing strip:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=56.781664,13.607404

Pretty impresssive.

- Kristian

 

[GPowers]

That is a LOT of wood. Would be great for some low cost housing.