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Behold the Holz Housen: Stacking in the round

 

by Lisa Schauer

About a dozen mysterious beehive-shaped wooden structures stand in a quiet meadow facing Sleepy Creek Mountain.

Each sturdy cylinder is over six feet high, lifted off the ground by a horizontal ring of cordwood, and topped by a sloped roof made of bark.

On closer inspection, these hut-like constructions look to contain about two cords of wood, firmly stacked with nary a nail or rail in sight. They seem to share…

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