Hot use for Cedar!!!

[okmulch]

This will be a little guessing game.

i had a customer call from Paradise Texas and request some eastern red cedar logs. sounds fairly upfront but the use was for something i had never heard a use of erc for. They requested 6 inch diameter at small end cedar logs and wanted 2 cords worth.

To figure out the use , one will need to think way outside the box. ;D ;D ;D

[Warbird]

Someone is building an outhouse? 

[Kansas]

Had someone request some posts like that once from eastern red cedar-he wanted to make rustic type bunk beds out of them. He used the poles for the corners, and for some of the other construction. He seemed happy with the way they turned out.

[thedeeredude]

Sauna?

[metalspinner]

Hot tub?

[woodbowl]

Those little carved name tags for key rings that you see hanging on a rack at tourest traps.

[Radar67]

A cordwood wall?

[logwalker]

Outhouse liner? Oh sorry,  that's inside the box....   :D :D

[okmulch]

all good guesses!!
first clue: some of you have narrowed it down to OUTSIDE use so that is correct

[scottr]

 I'll guess fence posts.

[SPIKER]

slicing & cooking fish on?  (or is that white cedar?)
bird/Bat houses?
shingles perhaps
making small wooden boxes?? (ok that's the OUTSIDE OF A BOX! :D)  :
Mark

[thecfarm]

smoking?
fire starters?
ground up to keep bugs away
ground up to put inside of small pillows

[Fla._Deadheader]

Hot box like the one in Serg's newest post- Sauna ???

[TexasTimbers]

Cordwood construction was also my initial guess as radar suggested but since that was not it . . . .

Your use of "Hot" and "outside the box" is that a hint or to throw us off?

A swimming pool? If that is not thinking outside the box for logs nothing is. 

[moonhill]

I didn't see firewood in the mix.  Tim

[okmulch]

hot is definitly a clue
outside the box means just a very unusual use for cedar.
spiker, this type of cedar has the oil in it that is not good to cook with.

[low_48]

Are they making a hot tub? Kinda like the old water towers on the railroads?

[Left Coast Chris]

Insect repellant, custom car dash or panels or parts.

[moonhill]

I need more info.  If that is fair.  Are they going to convert the poles into some other dimension,  or are they using them as they are?    Tim

[stonebroke]

bonfire?

Stonebroke

[Meadows Miller]

Gday

a rotundah , pragola . entertainment area out door structure somthing along those lines 6" tops is getting pretty specific for a end use what length?

Chris

[TexasTimbers]

I doubt they would be using the oil or else they would not specify 6" tops. They are building with them or using them in some kind of construction purpose IMO.

I also think we can't limit oursevles to ideas that only make sense. For example, they could be thinking that ERC is impervious to rot in all conditions and that is not the case.

Maybe they are going to knock 2 of the slabs off, cut them into 2" to 4" fltiches and use them to make a roadbed. ??? If you get most of the sap off of them this could be an economical application, and they would last a good while used this way. You would not want wide flitches for this because they would split from the weight of the vehicle. Thus the 6" tops.

[okmulch]

moonhill is on the right track with using fire.
they use the poles as is but can only use them one time.

[Meadows Miller]

Indian sweat tent tipi  wigwam

[Warbird]

I was thinking a teepee but that probably isn't it...