Winter moon wood

Austrian wood engineer and forester Mr. Ervin Thoma has scientifically proven based on his research that wood has molecular difference based on the time when it is harvested. Main living ingredient (just like in every being) of a growing tree is water. Every tree daily transports huge amounts of water. During winter time in the mountains and northern regions there is a term - that wood prepares for a “winter sleep”. The tree grows very slowly in that period. The wood knows that the winter and freeze is coming and that it must leave only a little bit of water inside it’s cells to survive during that period, otherwise it’s cells will explode. Just like when you leave water into the glass bottle to freeze - the bottle will explode and break... In very cold winter nights when the temperature outside drops to -25-35C you can hear in the forest cracking explosive sounds - these are sounds coming especially from the birch trees but from also coniferous trees - where the water in the wood cells freeze to the level it explodes the cells and it cracks.

Our ancestors new the rhythms of nature and knew all about wood more than modern knowledge and science can tell us. By harvesting wood in a cold winter months from December till January they also paid attention to the moon phases - always harvesting trees in the old moon when it is waning. You can do this test by harvesting two trees growing one by another - one in the old and one in the new moon and leave it in the forest from January till www.northmen.com Northmen Guild house builds Quotation July on the ground. One pine tree will have the bark beetle eating it and it will start to mould and have blue stain the other harvested in old moon will still remain fresh and untouched.

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Timber harvested by old moon does not contain that much water, sugars and biological ingredients as the water is diamagnetic in liquid form and due to the moon’s electromagnetic connection to the sun and the earth it regulates water amount and consistence in all living organisms. Every old man knows that firewood needs to be cut in the old moon - to get it dried sooner. The same with the wood for construction - logs or timber dry faster (consisting less water), are more stable and they do not need any chemical treatment to protect them from mould and fungal attacks.

In our Northmen house we use timber harvested by old moon in winter time from our forests that are managed by doing only selective cuts (not clear cutting the forests) and we replant twice as more trees than we fell. Wood is a renewable resource. Once Northmen house reaches 100 years mark - all of the trees used in the building will grow back and will be ready for the next house.