Made a good internet find today. The reference book "Wood
Handbook--Wood as an Engineering Material", by the US Forrest Service,
is available on-line in its entirely, for free, as a bunch of PDF files.
One file per chapter, looks like about 20 meg all told.
http://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/documnts/FPLGTR/fplgtr113/fplgtr113.htm
(oddly enough, even though "documnts" looks like a typo, the URL above
does work)
If you like hard copy, you can get what looks like a nicely bound
printed version from Lee Valley (among other places).
BTW, this represents a continuing (and excellent) trend in goverment
publications. Our tax dollars have already paid for the information
contined in the book, so that information is available for free. For
those of you who don't pay US income tax, it's a free gift from us to
you and on behalf of my fellow taxpayers, please enjoy it with our
compliments. If you want the value added of printing and binding,
that's available too, but you have to pay for it. Seems like a perfect
arrangement to me.
In article <[email protected]>, Roy Smith
<[email protected]> wrote:
> For
> those of you who don't pay US income tax, it's a free gift from us to
> you and on behalf of my fellow taxpayers, please enjoy it with our
> compliments.
All right!!! Continental defence AND the Wood Handbook... For FREE!
Some days it's just great being Canadian.
<g,d&r>
djb
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There are no socks in my email address.
"Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati"
I guess that I am getting so old that I am starting to HATE reading
long articles on the computer. Lee Valley has the book for sale for
$20- another "best buy".
On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 20:10:03 GMT, "Kevin" <[email protected]> wrote:
>Nice find. Thanks for sharing.
>
>Kevin
>
>"Roy Smith" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:[email protected]...
>> Made a good internet find today. The reference book "Wood
>> Handbook--Wood as an Engineering Material", by the US Forrest Service,
>> is available on-line in its entirely, for free, as a bunch of PDF files.
>> One file per chapter, looks like about 20 meg all told.
>>
>> http://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/documnts/FPLGTR/fplgtr113/fplgtr113.htm
>>
>> (oddly enough, even though "documnts" looks like a typo, the URL above
>> does work)
>>
>> If you like hard copy, you can get what looks like a nicely bound
>> printed version from Lee Valley (among other places).
>>
>> BTW, this represents a continuing (and excellent) trend in goverment
>> publications. Our tax dollars have already paid for the information
>> contined in the book, so that information is available for free. For
>> those of you who don't pay US income tax, it's a free gift from us to
>> you and on behalf of my fellow taxpayers, please enjoy it with our
>> compliments. If you want the value added of printing and binding,
>> that's available too, but you have to pay for it. Seems like a perfect
>> arrangement to me.
>
In article <201220031405473272%[email protected]>,
Dave Balderstone <[email protected]> wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>, Roy Smith
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > For
> > those of you who don't pay US income tax, it's a free gift from us to
> > you and on behalf of my fellow taxpayers, please enjoy it with our
> > compliments.
>
> All right!!! Continental defence AND the Wood Handbook... For FREE!
>
> Some days it's just great being Canadian.
>
> <g,d&r>
>
> djb
When you guys start helping to pay for it, THEN you get to tell us how
to spell it. Until then, it's defense, eh?
:-)
Nice find. Thanks for sharing.
Kevin
"Roy Smith" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Made a good internet find today. The reference book "Wood
> Handbook--Wood as an Engineering Material", by the US Forrest Service,
> is available on-line in its entirely, for free, as a bunch of PDF files.
> One file per chapter, looks like about 20 meg all told.
>
> http://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/documnts/FPLGTR/fplgtr113/fplgtr113.htm
>
> (oddly enough, even though "documnts" looks like a typo, the URL above
> does work)
>
> If you like hard copy, you can get what looks like a nicely bound
> printed version from Lee Valley (among other places).
>
> BTW, this represents a continuing (and excellent) trend in goverment
> publications. Our tax dollars have already paid for the information
> contined in the book, so that information is available for free. For
> those of you who don't pay US income tax, it's a free gift from us to
> you and on behalf of my fellow taxpayers, please enjoy it with our
> compliments. If you want the value added of printing and binding,
> that's available too, but you have to pay for it. Seems like a perfect
> arrangement to me.