Making Wood Substitutes from Hemp at the HempWood Facility in Kentucky!



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  1. Thanks for doing what you do! What TF is the hold up of hemp taking over the pressboard, plastic, wood industry anyway?! We can't wait around for the fking government to support it. Let's just do it! I grow and package my own lavender and cannot/ don't want to buy plastic packaging any more. I really want to purchase hemp plastic and it cannot be found. It's very frustrating.

  2. Nancy Berch of Paradise/ Plains, western Montana was growing beautiful organic fiber hemp a couple years back. She was Aldi getting great seed from it. She was ahead of her time. Could find NO BUYER for it. Pity

  3. The European company named Gablok has a really good system for building homes there can be modified to use hemp plywood and corn styrofoam making it as environmentally friendly as possible.

  4. This is cool. He kept swaying that they were burning their waste by they are actually making biochar. That is also really cool and carbon negative! I got a quote for a small floor from their sales person today. Seems to be about the the same price that Home Depot is charging for bamboo floor. Almost twice the cost of Home Depot oak flooring. But much cooler, I imagine that it would be a real conversation starter for visitors.

  5. Wow this is so amazing.
    I’ve been in the concrete building block and pavers industry for many years but seeing this is hypnotic and mind blowing. This has many applications and ramifications.
    I’m just flaying out. 👏🏼

  6. Man, I’m an fresh entrepreneur from Ukraine. Would like to start hemp farm in Ukraine.
    Many thanks for this excursion!

    Have one question: how long did it take to build such a company and what was you initial capital (if it is not a secret)

  7. The background noise muffles the audio. With that shut off and him wearing a high quality lavalier–this would be MUCH better. I am missing about 75% of what he is saying. I want to know about hemp subbing wood…especially as 2" X 6" studs and flooring.

  8. If built high-rise grow room/s with a water tank on top you can design a practical powrrstation running water down hydro generator. Build FISHTANK nextdoor can fertilise recycle water system build ecosystem produce own electricity, use minimal water, Lil to no waste. Adding gassifiers generators wind generators if in vac system if have 1. Use less space land wise same output or more supply food chain to support system thenb can reclaim land for rainforest bush land use minimal water. Designed aptly should be able to use no extra water once it's designed steam water into environment every 6 months once it's. Filtered all the garbage out revitalised with nutrients then we have clean rain clouds not GARBAGE & round up etc etc… Aeroponics systems on levels just incase get a disease don't lose whole crop grow different strains. Been trying to lights that don't need wires as grow lights for supplement light. Much easier to grow harvest etc etc..

  9. Been thinking about this for years now good to see. Can collect gas or oil from the burner? Also run a water pipe through run a steam generator? if your shed running on electricity that is, I'm assuming.Nice work, in the process I been wondering how to make different grades of wood (bit softer) depending on application. Use as studs/rafters? Personally I prefer the hemp blocks for building just in case someone wants to do something different how well do nails shoot in? Glue adhere? Waterproof/resistant?

  10. Your factory needs some automation.
    You might be better off making a plywood type sheets insted of logs, then milling the panels into flooring strips like a plywood factory or mdf factory and how its made less manual labor more mechanical production.
    After wide boards are cut per order toung and grooves can be milled into the edges high speed someone could place an oder for 3k sf of 2.5" strip flooring
    And x length boards configured to the room size. Bailed down like any wood flooring is and you could also stain to order or tottaly do prefinised flooring.
    The sheet goods can also be toung and groove sheet goods for walls roofs and subfloor use, a coating could be applied like hubblers sip wall system and a foam insulation added, also pre built walls using engineered walls like the 2×4 and 2×6 type foam walls sold in Canada that use 1x and 2x stock with foam and rods.
    To create a break between inside and outside walls contact that cut down thermal heat transfer insted of wood rods hemp rods becuse hemp has a better insulation value and its fire proof and termite proof.
    This would be traditional wood type framing hemp is also used in block wall construction.
    It grows faster then wood uses less water controls weeds itself and takes almost no energy to produce.
    Like tabaco its a cash crop.
    The whole plant is usefull.

  11. This may have been said/asked but… Since you had to invent/create/alter your own machinery, have you looked into Producing machinery for sale to Other processors? Im sure the hemp lumber industry is Growing and those potential producers will need YOUR Specialized equipment to process raw material into lumber as you have! Basically you "invented" a tool that everyone else will need to help get This industry TO REALLY GROW!! I FEEL THIS IS A WHOLE OTHER BUSINESS VENTURE FOR YALL! Since youve done the "legwork" of Literally Creating the machinery for this market… And that is Exactly what is needed for the market to grow! The tools and equipment "readily" available for expansion of hemp products like yours!!

  12. Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view !"
    Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam ."
    Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!"
    Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?…"
    Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!"
    Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky."
    Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction."
    Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment?"

  13. Hello guys, if you get a chance, check out Wasp 3D printing houses using raw earth materials. Your hemp by products should work just like the hay and straw they were using. Great work and great products.

  14. It’s not wonder why weed has been illegal on the federal level for so long. The potential to put multiple industries out of business altogether is crystal clear. I’m sure we could even create a bio diesel for fueling trucks, cars, and home heating purposes. The possibilities are endless.

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