We're working with Jayson right now and have discussed this barn. I would love to go see it.


Ken, those are his words, I can assure you -- I think he was just ending the post with a "thanks -- Jayson" and then added some more.

The species of the plates would be Yellow Poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera) one of the most common trees in the South and used extensively for framing, but not of the genus populus.

Mark, there are still giant poplars standing in Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest near Robbinsville, NC. Here is some info on our poplars -- http://forestry.about.com/od/hardwoods/ss/tuliptree.htm


ps looks like Don P beat me to the button.


pps. Whit threw out the idea that the snaplines could have been made with Walnut Dye from our black walnut husks.