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A house made of hemp?

RiverRat
RiverRat
Jun 24, 2015
7:35am
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Ex-NBA coach Don Nelson is building one in Hawaii.
melonhead
melonhead
Jun 24, 2015
9:33am
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"I am very glad to hear that the Gardener has saved so much of the St. foin seed, and that of the India Hemp. Make the most you can of both, by sowing them again in drills. . . Let the ground be well prepared, and the Seed (St. loin) be sown in April. The Hemp may be sown any where. "

George Washington to William Pearce, 24 February 1794
CowboyKell
CowboyKell
Jun 24, 2015
1:06pm
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I really don't get the hemp fad. Linen, from flax, is a far superior fabric.
jatki
jatki
Jun 25, 2015
1:37am
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It is my understanding that an acre of hemp produces four times as much paper/fiber products than an acre of forest. I also saw some documentary that made the claim the all powerful land barons at the time(20's?, same ones behind Reefer madness movie) that had marijuana outlawed, they had vsat tracts of land throughout the country, such a cash crop was pretty detrimental to there business.

CowboyKell
CowboyKell
Jun 25, 2015
2:52am
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Originally posted by: jatki99
It is my understanding that an acre of hemp produces four times as much paper/fiber products than an acre of forest. I also saw some documentary that made the claim the all powerful land barons at the time(20's?, same ones behind Reefer madness movie) that had marijuana outlawed, they had vsat tracts of land throughout the country, such a cash crop was pretty detrimental to there business.


From my limited and suspect knowledge, hemp and flax do give far more product per acre compared to softwood forest. It also yields more than cotton or even bamboo. The quality of the product is better as well. The problem is labor. Hemp and Flax are very labor intensive to harvest.
jatki
jatki
Jun 25, 2015
7:24am
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Originally posted by: jatki99
It is my understanding that an acre of hemp produces four times as much paper/fiber products than an acre of forest. I also saw some documentary that made the claim the all powerful land barons at the time(20's?, same ones behind Reefer madness movie) that had marijuana outlawed, they had vsat tracts of land throughout the country, such a cash crop was pretty detrimental to there business.


From my limited and suspect knowledge, hemp and flax do give far more product per acre compared to softwood forest. It also yields more than cotton or even bamboo. The quality of the product is better as well. The problem is labor. Hemp and Flax are very labor intensive to harvest.


Well cheap labor is one thing this country has in spades.

CowboyKell
CowboyKell
Jun 25, 2015
3:40pm
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Originally posted by: jatki99
It is my understanding that an acre of hemp produces four times as much paper/fiber products than an acre of forest. I also saw some documentary that made the claim the all powerful land barons at the time(20's?, same ones behind Reefer madness movie) that had marijuana outlawed, they had vsat tracts of land throughout the country, such a cash crop was pretty detrimental to there business.


From my limited and suspect knowledge, hemp and flax do give far more product per acre compared to softwood forest. It also yields more than cotton or even bamboo. The quality of the product is better as well. The problem is labor. Hemp and Flax are very labor intensive to harvest.


Well cheap labor is one thing this country has in spades.


There's no such thing as cheap labor.

I have extended family with over 3000 acres in cotton. 3 people work that land. I don't know how much money they make but they live in a nice house and drive brand new pickups. It would take a pretty large workforce to harvest that much hemp by hand twice a year.

jatki
jatki
Jun 26, 2015
1:44am
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Originally posted by: jatki99
It is my understanding that an acre of hemp produces four times as much paper/fiber products than an acre of forest. I also saw some documentary that made the claim the all powerful land barons at the time(20's?, same ones behind Reefer madness movie) that had marijuana outlawed, they had vsat tracts of land throughout the country, such a cash crop was pretty detrimental to there business.


From my limited and suspect knowledge, hemp and flax do give far more product per acre compared to softwood forest. It also yields more than cotton or even bamboo. The quality of the product is better as well. The problem is labor. Hemp and Flax are very labor intensive to harvest.


Well cheap labor is one thing this country has in spades.


There's no such thing as cheap labor.

I have extended family with over 3000 acres in cotton. 3 people work that land. I don't know how much money they make but they live in a nice house and drive brand new pickups. It would take a pretty large workforce to harvest that much hemp by hand twice a year.


Well there's obviously machinery involved there, don't you think if hemp were to start being produced on a large scale, some type of cultivator would be built? There's an aspiring inventor around every corner. Methimks Deere or some other big agri mftr. would do something about it first.

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