Hmm, I am at a point where In the next few weeks I was looking at investing in a dozen straw bosses. But after reading this post and the myriad of negative replies, would I be better in investing that money in buying plywood/OSB etc. and building a couple of dozen d.i.y. bosses? These would be outside in semi permanent positions. If I bought the timber for framing, would I be better with OSB or Marine ply? Where I live we average around 30 days a year where we have rain at some time of the day but maybe only 10-15 days where we have a full day of rain.