On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 16:20:57 +0000, Andy Dingley
scribbled:

On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 08:14:59 -0800, Luigi Zanasi
wrote:

What do you think people would be prepared to pay for them

Zilch

Who wants a tipi ?

Hippies want tipis.

How much money do hippies have ?

Bugger all.

and is there much of a demand?

No. There's a better market in yurts and geodesic domes. Domes in
particular have a "commercial" market on the festival circuit and so
they might be bought by someone who actually has a real budget. Tipis
might be OK to live in, but the doorway / light / floorspace just aren't
big enough to use them as a stall or venue for anything commercial.

Ah well, there goes my get-rich-quick scheme of providing poles to
British tipi dwellers. :-(

The few UK lodgepole pines I've seen have been in odd locations, not in
stands, and they've been anything other than straight. There are a few
about, and I could probably round them up with a lot of looking, but
those "$10" prices for as many as I wanted would have saved me a lot of
legwork.

Probably Shore pine then, the contorted coastal subspecies of Pinus
contorta, which gave the species its name.

Luigi
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