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[flatfloor]

Hey Shaughnn, you still have to pay to take down that 160' tree?

[Shaughnn]

Yup, it's still looming over my house. Some of the snags heaved over though. If that fir went, it would go through a house like a guillotine. :^) It's finally coming down tomorrow.
Shaughnn

[kate42]

Originally Posted by Shaughnn

It's finally coming down tomorrow.

That makes me very happy. You have some very special people in your home (little ones and big ones).

[flatfloor]

Lotsa 2x4 in that tree.

[kate42]

Originally Posted by Flatfloors

Lotsa 2x4 in that tree.

And 1x2 and 2x2 and 6x8. Lots of stuff in that ole tree. Just as long as it is taken down.

[Shaughnn]

The estimate was 2000 board feet, but it's too far from the road for the companies with small cranes and the companies with larger cranes feel that 2000 board feet isn't worth their time.
So, it's all getting cut into rounds and being given to friends for firewood. :^(
Shaughnn
PS: Yes, you can have some for free, Flat. But you gotta work out the postage.

[Westie]

cut it up into 10 to 12 foot lenghts and haul it out behind a truck. That much good wood is too much to waste on just firewood. I trimed out my whole hose using douglas fir. Cost was $2.20 a board foot.

[JTG]

I want some!
JTG

[dl]

cut it up into 10 to 12 foot lenghts and haul it out behind a truck. That much good wood is too much to waste on just firewood. I trimed out my whole hose using douglas fir. Cost was $2.20 a board foot.

That's milled and probably retail price. Pond value is a fraction of that. After you pay the dragging, loading and trucking you probably wouldn't get much more than the value of the couple cords of wood that's there. Hardly worth the trouble.

- DL

[flatfloor]

Box of 240 toothpicks retail $.75 each one is 2.5" long Lessee 160' x 12" carry the...

[Shaughnn]

Jerry,
Send your guys on over. I've already got a cord of seasoned wood so I don't need any for myself. We've extended the invitation to several friends and even an electrician, whom I like. If you can get here before the firewood people come to pick it up, you can take as much as you can carry.
Cheers,
Shaughnn

[cx]

It's kinda amazing to watch timber operations these days. In my youth the timber guys would haul off just about anything you could get a couple boards outa, seemed like.

I've worked the past few Springs in a large area that was being logged for lumber processing and I was absolutely amazed to see the scope of the slash piles left behind. There are piles of wood covering 3 or 4000 square feet, ten+ feet tall stretching end to end for a quarter mile in places. A substantial amount of the "brush" in the piles is logs of eight inches diameter. Millions of board feet of Fir and Pine.

And these folks, the land owners, own one lumber mill 60 miles away that cuts nothing but 2x4 and 2x6 lumber. Still can't get anybody to cut and haul anything under 9" diameter profitably enough to bother with it.

Those piles will all burn in place this winter.

[Dave Taylor]

I Use to fish in streams and hike a lot in Whitewater State Park in Southern Minnesota.... thousands of acres of wilderness.

About 1989 loggers moved into many areas and cut the woods so bad, and left so much timber that was not perfectly straight and long..... just lay.... I thought it was a crime.

Not just ruining my fishing areas but ruining the woods, bluffs and everything they touched.... leaving a complete mess.... and wasting lumber up the gazoo.... and all what seemed to be on my tax $ and in the name of management.

Never fergit' the complete bluffs that got clear cut like a bald man..... with straight timber left to rot everywhere for ?? reasons.

I'm happy that Shaughnn is puttin' his beauty to some complete use.

[ceramictec]

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Around 1,000 homes were served with a mandatory evacuation order as southern California braced for the arrival of a severe rain storm, officials said Thursday.

The evacuation orders covered homes in areas affected by recent wildfires, with the National Weather Service warning that the storm would bring threats of flash-flooding and mudslides on burnt hillsides.

The areas named covered Modjeska, Williams and Silverado Canyons in Orange County, south of Los Angeles.

All residents must evacuate by 8:00 pm (0400 GMT), the Orange County Sheriff's Department said.

The storm, which developed from a cold front near the Gulf of Alaska, is expected to slam into southern California late Thursday, with forecasts saying up to three inches of rain could fall over the region.

The California coastline has been battered by monster 15-feet waves this week that has sent surfers scrambling to beaches.

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on Thursday ordered the state Office of Emergency Services to prepare for the weather front by pre-positioning rescuers in areas expected to be worst hit.

Schwarzenegger also urged residents to "take every precaution."

[dl]

News tonight said a good part of Astoria and all of Seaside are still without power. Trask's lucky day might be Friday.

Also I-5 between Portland and Seattle was reopened after four days of being under water, but only to truckers for the moment - one lane each way. This averts a 270 mile detour.

- DL