Last February. Goodbye to the winter and welcome to the municipal police, to the grass or to the grass. It's nice to be blackened, but for the next time I'll leave that path. I still want to flush the wood...

The other day Berria brought the story of the desolate facade of Arantzazu and renovated unpublished images. Two photographs: the baga, in which the apostles of Oteiza were thrown at the edge of the road, and the second, the work of placing these carved stones on the facade.

I'm not going to get into the black hole in the Oteiza hole, which should be left silent. The neighbor caught my attention: the scaffold. It was a wooden scaffolding, a scaffold raised on a nailed board. That's why it's called a taboo. Instead, you find those metal structures that are taken off and put into a rattle that we see today. In the photo I didn't know the wood and the first thing I wanted to ask my grandfather Jesus Mari: What wood did the scaffolding of yesteryear? Not in vain has been a serrallo.

In his opinion, few scaffolding such as Arantzazu have been built here. In most cases, mobile scaffolding has been used on easel to lift the walls of the house and then build the interior from floor to floor. Hanging scaffolds were used on the outer wall, which, if necessary, were moved by the eaves through ropes. Like those for easel, the tables used for these observations were of insignis pine (Pinus radiata); those of seven, seven centimeters thick. I guess the few large planks on the facades will also be pine.

In the Asian area it is customary to make scaffolding with another plant. At present, bamboo scaffolding continues to be built for the construction of more than forty skyscrapers on the ground floor. The carpenters who work in this trade have an immense art, they have to do special studies and charge more. They say that the steel scaffolds are too rigid and easy to fall. A Chinese saying goes, because it's soft, it gives the tongue, the tooth is stiff and it breaks. Bamboo, thanks to its flexibility, holds the attack of a gale or an earthquake on the good side. On the other hand, it easily adapts to the way you want to give to the construction and is built in half time. The main problem is duration, about three years.

The buckwheat (Arundo donax) and the bamboos (Phyllostachys spp) that are also cut in our country for mops or clubs have a similar duration. That's right, they're cut off on the rising moon of February. Like the one you just left, it will come from February...