Originally Posted by rainierrifleco
Originally Posted by simonkenton7
Cottonwood would not be good for a beam.

This is true ....but it didn't stop the old timers from building with what they had.. We had a lot of old barns and houses built with rough cut cotton wood...in those days that was just about the only trees around here in Nebraska..
As for central Missouri there were plenty of better choices...


That is true, not too many extra trees in Nebraska. And my great great grandfather homesteaded in South Dakota in 1882. I always wondered where they got wood for building a house.