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Stanley Barthfarkle
C'mon, asshole. Still waiting for your witty reply.
Not so. I don't even know you. :^)
noted for it's extensive forests.
Try decaf, Robert- that way you'll actually READ
the subject matter before replying.
There were 27,000 recorded forest fires in 1919, burning a
total of 8¼ million acres. During the preceding year, 25,000
fires burned over 10½ million acres of forest land. An
additional large acreage was burned each year, of which
no record could be obtained.
According to estimates published in American Forestry, Sept.
1920: "The bulk of the original supplies of yellow pine in the
South will be gone in ten years, and within seven years 3,000
manufacturing plants will go out of business."
Going back to the middle of the last century, we can distinctly
trace the history of the lumber of the country at ten year
intervals by showing the relative importance of the several
producing regions.
Still waiting for your witty reply.
... other end of the Ozark mountain range. One of
the many forest areas in North America that were
heavily depleted...
Following WW1, housing demand was up, labor costs
were up, lumber production was down...
Folks built smaller and/or built with less costly materials
and used methods which reduced labor costs. reinforced
concrete, bricks, stone, stell, and slab construction...
I've worked in dozens of homes built during this era...
and they are more difficult to wire than Post WW2 homes.
Much more difficult, in many cases.
If you believe that older homes are "almost as easy" as
wiring a newer home, you're not only mistaken, but you're
obviously overstating your actual experience with homes
from that era.
I'm done with the thread.
Everyone already knows you're a know-it-all hot-air-spewing
self-serving idiot...
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... simple American history vis-a-vis lumber shortages
during/shortly after WW1 (and during the depression,
and during WW2),
how to avoid showing everyone how truly ignorant you are...
Go have a donut, and contemplate the center of that donut
very carefully...
This represents the value of your self-serving contributions
to this group.
Robert L Bass said:I've been there. You've got some very nice trees. It's still
not -- and never was -- the primary source of US lumber. You
guys do have a thriving sage brush industry though. :^)
Try using an appropriate metaphor. The decaf crack is usually
directed at folks who respond to disagreement with a barrage of
gutter talk like what you posted.
Stanley Barthfarkle said:http://www.kuffelcreek.com/1920's_construction.htm
If you believe that older homes are "almost as easy" as wiring a newer home,
you're not only mistaken, but you're obviously overstating your actual
experience with homes from that era.
Robert L Bass said:I think you have me confused with one of your paramours.
Do you think you'd understand?
This represents the value of your self-serving contributions to this group.
Eric said:I am in the midst of designing an alarm system for my residence. I have
four exterior entrances (front, back, two sets of french doors) and one
to the garage I would like to alarm. This is an circe 1920 house so
installing the switches may not be a walk in park. How much effort
should I put into hard-wiring the switches before I look to RF? I do
have a basement will (nearly) full access to the areas below the doors.
Thanks,
Eric
Robert said:Sorry to have offended you by disagreeing with you. It's
unfortunate that you are unable to accept disagreement without
resorting to such childish outbursts.
I don't mind if you can't come up with a reasonable counterpoint
other than the above, but perhaps you can at least try to explain
how shortages in WWII (1939 to 1945) and the great depression
(which started in 1929) affected construction in 1920.
Without benefit of your vast knowledge of history, we can only
assume that the lumber market anticipated the troubles to come
and dried up years in advance. Boggles the mind, eh?
To the point, if you want to try to dissuade people from DIY, I
can understand your motive.
You make a living installing alarms.
No problem. I advocate DIY and I make a living catering to
DIYers via my online alarm system store.
It's natural that I
want to explain how to do this sort of thing, just as it is
natural that you want to make people believe that doing so is
dangerous / impossible / against the law / whatever.
I would suggest though that you stick to facts. Try not to make
up stories or at least try to use ones that aren't so silly.
It
doesn't make you sound knowledgeable when you try to associate
lumber shortages in WWII with construction issues in homes that
were built a generation *before* WWII. It just sounds like
you're trying *very* hard to prove an unprovable argument, to
wit, that there's some sort of "art" to installing alarms. There
isn't.
This isn't rocket science. It's not a profession like medicine
or engineering. It's a blue collar trade requiring little or no
education. Your tirade above only serves to prove the point.