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To: Gauguin who wrote (37287)	9/6/1999 4:44:00 PM
From: Crocodile	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 71178

<LUMBER IS BEAUTIFUL.> Isn't it though? You don't have to tell me. I go into my favourite woodworking supply store and suddenly notice a carboard box... a kind of a pizza box...filled with thin bits of wood...a kind of mixed assortment of odds and ends of marquetry-type wood marked "On Sale"... just sort of sitting there waiting for me.. Me: "Aaaaaaaahhh... I need that". Mr. Croc: (raising one eyebrow at me) "What for?" Me: (fidgeting a little under his steady gaze) "I dunno... I'll think of something". But now he's suspicious. I know... He's a smart dude... He knows that I'll bring that pizza-box full of wood bits home and then I'll be kind of nervous about using the pieces to make something in case it doesn't turn out... in case I waste a really nice piece of wood. Guess he knows me pretty well by now. Big wood, little wood... I love it. BTW, that's what I like about so much about my new canoe...It's all trimmed in ash and cherrywood. The carrying yoke is made of cherrywood... the yoke is beautiful to look and and touch...sigh <Oh boy. I'm going to be embarrassed, after I post this. I will have to hide outside, away from my computer. > Uh-oh... now who do you think should go away and hide...?

To: Gauguin who wrote (37287)	9/6/1999 6:42:00 PM
From: Michael Sphar	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

After my year of surveying in the Oregon coastal woods, the USAF saw fit to send me to southern Mississippi, where, I kid you not, there are managed forests of the scrawniest, puniest little pine trees that I have ever seen. Not much taller or bigger girth than some cornstalks in Nebraska cornfields. And all the trees are planted in rows and columns. Regular-like, farm like. Enough to make a feller scream. Maybe wish to transplant a 12-foot diameter at the base hemlock from your coast hills down to those Mississippi lowlands, just to show all those trees there what they should be aspiring to. Some things just should not be "managed".

To: Gauguin who wrote (37287)	9/6/1999 6:44:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

I love wood, too. But I don't know nearly as much about it as you do. I am learning. A little. We were thinking about maybe, instead of wall-to-wall carpet in the rec room, we might put hardwood floor, and were looking at hardwood flooring at Home Depot. But the rec room is in a walk-out basement, and they had signs saying you can't put hard-wood in the basement. So I asked the guy in the orange uniform "why?" and he said because you can't nail wood to concrete. "Oh, so, what if you put a subfloor?" I can't decide whether I love or hate that split second where they do the tiny head-snap when I say something like "subfloor" or "underlayment". Both, maybe. But they keep the face impassive, and shift into guy-talk mode smoothly, after that first teentsy hitch. Guys. Sheesh. ;^)

To: Gauguin who wrote (37287)	9/6/1999 6:52:00 PM
From: Ish	Respond to of 71178

Hi Gaugs, I sold some timber when I had my bottom ground. 150 acres worth for $4,000. All they took was a bunch of soft woods for making pallets. That timber had been harvested for that every 10 years forever. A mile up the river was a 25 acre stand of virgin walnut, veneer grade. The owner wanted to put in a pond and sold 5 acres of trees for $25,000. Another place here in town was going to be made into a strip mall. It had a beautiful stand. The trees were sold but each and every one was hollow. Someone got fed their lunch. Some horse raisers go to the mills for sawdust for bedding. Gotta be careful that no walnut has been cut, bed a horse on any walnut sawdust and it will founder. Horses are allergic to walnut. I went to a sawmill that had been cutting oak. They were selling bundles of the first trimmings of the logs for $10. Round bundles 4 feet high and 16 feet long. Just leave the straps on and fire up the chain saw. Quickest really good firewood I ever got.