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At 07:35 AM 7/29/05 -0400, you wrote: <br>
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<blockquote type=cite cite>Should've told me :) Last night saw a link
for medieval armor and weapons that included build times and costs for
France/Germany. Darn. What was that keyword I used..."Ancient
Building Costs" I think. But can't recall now it was like 2am :)
As to the high costs. It does sound high. But its a start. I mainly
wanted to figure out the BF per Hectare since I have a figure that tells
how many BF ACTUALLY existed in a galley. From that data I can then
figure BF estimates for ships higher and lower. Then that gives a basic
cost for the wood and then just have to figure out the BF base cost. But
when you look at the FACTUAL figure even if you give .1 bb per board
that's still alot o gold. Ships are expensive that's a fact. But how
far do we go down? .00001 BB per BF? :) I'll have to figure this out.
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<font face="arial" size=2 color="#000080">I think I remember that site
the indicated how many hectares of woodland were required to build a
ship, with clear-cut and managed numbers. <br>
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I m not thrilled with the hectares method, since you have to make real
wild assumptions on the number of boardfeet in a hectare. I would think
a better method is to simply get the weight of the ship, divide by
something in the 40-50 range (specific weight of wood) to find cubic
feet, then multiplying by 12 to find board-feet.<br>
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It s real rough, but I would think not as rough as the other
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<font size=3 color="#FFFFFF">I'm not using Hectare beyond what I
needed. I only used it since i had a actual act of the number of
boards for a galley. Then converted Hectare to board feet to get
the figure. Was a simple....well it took 3 days :)....to convert
the figure to roughly 290k BF. Now using that as a baseline can
figure other things out. Likely won't even see hectare in my docs
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I've come up with a labor formula as well now based on other aspects
including some info in the books I read last year (my notes). So
will come up with a baseline for that. And it looks reasonable
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