Small world, it's good to know things like that ... was it far from Hibbing, where this disc jockey who might just swing me to satellite radio is from - Message 24696095
Two germans i recall working with, don't know the region of one, other was from Hamburg area, go figure, not much for timber there, said that back a few generations he was mostly danish, could speak some danish and also russian ... germans have tended to run things, where they've emigrated, more than actually physically work
Anybody in the BC forest industry for any length of time has wood they've handled in whatever small way go all over the world, over a hundred countries no doubt for those of us who moved around within the industry ... can't see it when you're travelling though, all covered up or painted over, still it's there, one fellow years ago with a now defunct company bragged that he'd sown up the door jamb market in Saudi Arabia, another once introduced our yellow cedar to the japanese, it is almost identical to their sacred iroki [sp?], temple wood, he completely changed that market, before this yellow cedar was worth much less, cheap siding and beams etc, barns built out of what now would be clear big-money wood ... things change, it's like the truly grand kauri of NZ got sawn up into dimension lumber to rebuild San Francisco after the earthquake, they wouldn't do that now ... because they can't do it now, it's all gone but for a few trees in parks |
