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Loggers and Portable Sawmill folks

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Kevin (FL)

10-19-2004 09:47:29




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Hurricane Ivan has blown over thousands of oaks and pines down here and property owners are mostly cutting up the trees in small pieces and dragging to the road for the FEMA trucks to haul away and burn. Seems such a waste to burn so much good timber when the lumber prices are so high. Yet I don't see anyone loading up the large pines and oaks for lumber harvesting. In north Pensacola they have set up a large burn area that covers about 10 acres where the debris is being carried. This is just one of many "burn dumps" that have been setup. Wish some of you could have come down here and loaded up on some good timber. Pines up to 30" diameter and oaks up to 36" and higher. Also wish we had a portable sawmill ourselves....

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RWK in WI

10-19-2004 18:26:31




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 Re: Loggers and Portable Sawmill folks in reply to Kevin (FL), 10-19-2004 09:47:29  
Something to consider is this. Trees that have been brought down by storms, hurricanes for you tornadoes up here, are often twisted by the wind and the grain has seperated, thus if cut in to lumber if would be weak or even unuable. Also consider that the storm may have burried metal or other objects in the tree. When a saw hit the metal it is the end of the blade and may cause a great danger of thrown object.
I have cut tornado downed trees for firewood and hitting metal and spoiling a chain is part of the deal.

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Midwest redneck

10-19-2004 17:37:47




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 Re: Loggers and Portable Sawmill folks in reply to Kevin (FL), 10-19-2004 09:47:29  
That is a shame to have all that wood go to waste. I would think that anybody with the strengh could cut up some of the hardwoods and burn it for firewood instead of paying for gas or propane. But there are some lazy folks out there.. they would want it sawed to length, split, dryed and stacked for free and then they would be interested.



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NC Wayne

10-19-2004 16:23:01




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 Re: Loggers and Portable Sawmill folks in reply to Kevin (FL), 10-19-2004 09:47:29  
I have to agree with the other posts, it's such a waste to see all that lumber burned or mulched or whatever winds up happening to it in the end. Around here Duke Power is always asking for donations this time of the year to help keep power on to "low income" people for heat instead of them turning it off because they couldn't pay the bill. instead of wasting all that money on electricity pay put in a chimney and let them heat with wood. Like the old saying goes "Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day, teach a man to fish and he'll eat forever"...or won't ever get a lick of work done because he's setting on his lazy a-- fishing....

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Les...fortunate

10-19-2004 15:20:01




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 Re: Loggers and Portable Sawmill folks in reply to Kevin (FL), 10-19-2004 09:47:29  
My father and his father used to tell about the '38 hurricane and the thousands of acres of beautiful trees that were laying on the ground. Prices were low and most of it never got salvaged. Hate to see it happen but that's they way it is sometimes.
Besides, it's some kind of nasty work...much hard than regular logging.



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JMS/MN

10-19-2004 13:59:43




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 Re: Loggers and Portable Sawmill folks in reply to Kevin (FL), 10-19-2004 09:47:29  
Reminds me of what happened in MN a few years ago after a big blow-down in northern forests. DNR refused loggers to come in to cut dead trees. So the state took a risk of a humongous fire in the Boundary Waters area of NE MN, for several years. What a waste of NATURAL RESOURCES! How many homes could have been heated with that wood?



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