Hi Jim:

You sound like a very knowledgeable and reasonable man, and I think that we are getting closer to solving your long purlins which were sawn through the centre.

As I said before we are located in very different locals with very different beginnings.

I just talked recently with a chap that demolished a house very close to Kingston Ontario, and we discussed this long sawn timber p;roblem that we are dealing with. This chap is also very knowledgeable, and during our conversation he commented to me that he had seen 36 foot joists that were absolutely sawn with a muley saw mill. He says that there were facilities near shipbuilding centres that did have mills with vertical blades that were especially set up to cut the long timbers and planks that shipbuilding required--Kingston was one of those areas herein Canada.

I believe that Maine is also associated with shipbuilding correct me if I am wrong.

NH