Timeline for Were iron nails at one time so scarce that pioneers in America burned down their cottages to retrieve them?
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| Jan 25, 2018 at 15:33 | answer | added | DavePhD | timeline score: 10 | |
| Jan 24, 2018 at 23:22 | comment | added | Daniel R Hicks | I can attest to being in Mexico on a church mission about 25 years ago and witnessing a couple of carpenters there who used recycled nails for much of their construction. (However, these appeared to be nails extracted from dismantled construction, as they all needed to be straightened before use, and I don't recall any evidence of burning.) Values may have shifted somewhat of late due to Chinese manufacturing, but items such as nails can possess a relatively high value in economically stressed societies. | |
| Jan 24, 2018 at 13:38 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSkeptic/status/956159190833291264 | ||
| Jan 24, 2018 at 13:04 | comment | added | user43646 | The abandoned buildings were burnt down in order to retrieve the nails. The blog-post just puts this into clearer context, which is fairly clear already in two of the quoted source . Therefore its not so much a debunking as a contextualising. (The first quote is misleading though, as 'abandoned' is quite important ) | |
| Jan 24, 2018 at 9:40 | history | edited | user17967 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 24, 2018 at 8:38 | history | asked | user17967 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |