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Strategies & Market Trends : Fascist Oligarchs Attack Cute Cuddly Canadians -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Richard Saunders who wrote (316)	12/20/2001 12:36:17 AM
From: marcos	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1293

People listen to Pearse [i believe his name to be spelled correctly with an ess], at least non-NDP-people, lol ... and for good reason, he's written a number of sensible papers on forestry, one famous one on fishing twenty-five or so years ago as well .... i have here his 'Introduction to Forestry Economics', ISBN 0-7748-0336-3, probably a text for his UBC course and certainly more than this unskooled logger ever needs to express in academic terms ... many years ago we had with him a minor business dealing that fell through due to a third-party force majeure sort of thing, he was a gentleman throughout, and has now the respect of all involved Old sawmills - one on the Island used to be reputed to have, in the 20s-30s when it was the largest mill in the Empire, one headrig which could not grip a log less than 60 inches in diameter towards its top - the dogs simply didn't get any closer to the rails than ~50 inches ... but it's all been renewed now, and gobbled up by a US company ... that's Chemainus of course ..... there was another on the Fraser that had a ripsaw setup using a chainsaw on a long long bar that swung down into the water, it could halve and then quarter a 20-foot diameter log if you could float one over to it Those days are gone, the change-over to second growth has been ongoing for many years ... not completed yet of course by any means, however people like Doman's have for many years made good use of gang sawlog, buying it up cheap out of old-growth booms where the main value was perceived to be in the standard [gang = 8-14 inch top, standard = 15 inch top or better, in the old terms] ... but of course there is likely much more change to come, 'change is just the way things are', in forestry as in all else 'Take the wood to the mill' ... [and not the mill to the wood] ... i've told this to so many people when they were thinking of bringing in one of those Woodmisers or Logbandits or whatever to saw up the logs they'd cut to clear a housesite on their five-acre lot .... with low modern logging costs and efficient transportation, and the huge advantage that efficient sawmills have in making use of wood, it just doesn't pay to try beating the mills with some gyppo outfit slogging away in the mud ... unless you're cutting custom timbers and beams to-order and you really know how to market them, and you cut only logs suitable for that purpose ... best generally to sell your logs to the mill and buy your two-by-fours from the lumberyard This may not apply in all cases to entire communities on this coast, however ... it did in Ocean Falls, didn't it ... and Port Alice [is that still running? i don't think so] ... Tahsis, Zeballos, Gold River ... speaking of Liberals -g- [that's where the Gibsons got their start] ... interesting Richard, thanks ..... cheers