Free Wood Handbook

Mike wrote:
> A free Wood Handbook published by the USDA Forest Service Laboratory is
> avail for download (PDF 14.3 MB)..... It's a very large file.
>
>
> Wood as an engineering material. General Technical Report 113.
> Madison, WI: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest
> Products Laboratory. 463 p.
>
> http://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/documnts/fplgtr/fplgtr113/fplgtr113.htm
>
> Instead of printing on my printer, I went to my local library,
> downloaded a chapter or two each visit and printed using their laser
> jet printers. Bring your own ream of paper to save even more money.
> After 13 visits, I binded the printed matter and Viola! a nice, in
> depth, engineering handbook.
>
> Or of course, you could purchase a copy via the government webiste or
> Lee Valley Tools.
>
> Thought I share this little free hidden gem on the Internet.
>
> Mike

Lee Valley has repaginated the book, and added hard covers. Overall,
those two changes make it much easier to use. Oh, yes. They've also
re-indexed it to fit the new pagination. The quality of the repro
pick-up is also outstanding.

"Mike" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>A free Wood Handbook published by the USDA Forest Service Laboratory is
> avail for download (PDF 14.3 MB)..... It's a very large file.
>
>
> Wood as an engineering material. General Technical Report 113.
> Madison, WI: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest
> Products Laboratory. 463 p.
>
> http://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/documnts/fplgtr/fplgtr113/fplgtr113.htm
>
> Instead of printing on my printer, I went to my local library,
> downloaded a chapter or two each visit and printed using their laser
> jet printers. Bring your own ream of paper to save even more money.
> After 13 visits, I binded the printed matter and Viola! a nice, in
> depth, engineering handbook.
>
> Or of course, you could purchase a copy via the government webiste or
> Lee Valley Tools.
>
> Thought I share this little free hidden gem on the Internet.
>
> Mike
>

Thanks Mike, I downloaded the whole book (all 486 pages of it) and it took a
minute with my cable connection and will take about 30 minutes on my laser
printer. Reading it will take much longer.