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To: Ish who wrote (53034)	7/5/2000 2:34:47 PM
From: Gauguin	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 71178

>>>two guys in a town near here have a sawmill set up on a flatbed. They will come to your house and mill a tree on the spot for a fee and any damages to their saw caused by metal objects.<<< That is really good to hear. I think it is terrific! There is a lot of good wood in neighborhoods, and we Woodies/Wobblies spot trees and admire them, and then sometime in the decade they're felled and simply split up. We see all those board feet and all that materialized time and plant energy and leaf sugars destroyed for BTU's. Eeek. It's awful. Now see, we sometimes go out and mill them ourselves? But the time available for that has vanished. I have no idea where that time goes. Then they are dried in contract kilns. You have to haul them there and back. Jeepers. Lotsa work. But a lot of pride. Satisfaction. Nothing like hunting and dressing your own. The average homeowner has little chance or ability or space to sticker and dry a stack of planks. I wind up, nowadays, just giving the sections to permanently-woodworker friends, when I have to bring down a special tree. My collection is full. It's amazingly satisfying compared to destruction. Just a little thing, but one of those big ones. Just vibrates like a tuning fork inside you. I like to watch the truck and wood drive off. I had to cut down the largest holly in town last year ~ my god the wood was wonderful, and every bit is being used.