Western White Pine

5/14/04, 5:42 AM #1

Bob Smalser, Seabeck, WA
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Western White Pine

Bob Smalser, Seabeck, WA

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Taking a break today from digging an unpleasantly large foundation hole (70, 10-yd loads?) to mill up all the Western White Pine on hand before the warm weather facilitates Blue Mold. The fir and cedar will keep.

Same properties as Eastern White Pine�the heartwood has some uses on boats and it�s great interior house trim. Two middlin-size trees, 27� diameter�6 sawlogs logs total, three of them pretty clear�one tree was free and the owner of the other gets one lower log�s worth in return for sawing 4/4 paneling.

Appears I�ll recover 1000-1200 BF from them today�.and around 300 BF of CVG stock. Fragrant�you can smell that pine 100 yards away, and there are two ospreys and an eagle working the ponds today as the Cutties feed on the surface and the last of the Coho smolt head downstream.

Hope you folks working in offices have a nice day.

Re: Western White Pine

5/14/04, 12:31 PM #2

Jeff Aldred
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You wouldn't be needing an apprentice? Coffee Boy?

Jeff Aldred

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Re: Western White Pine

5/14/04, 1:13 PM #3

Brad in Ottawa
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Brad in Ottawa

>Bob,

Yeah, I'm envious. I'm stuck in the office for most of the day. Your eagles and osprey's also put the Sparrow Hawk's that have a nest in the Spruce on my front lawn in urban Ottawa to shame!

I do have a couple of questions. You mention you have two middlin sized trees and 6 sawlogs. What is a sawlog??

Secondly, what are you digging the foundation for? Anything interesting? A new shop?

Have a great day!!!!

Brad

Re: Western White Pine

5/14/04, 4:47 PM #4

Scott Burr in Ben Lomond CA
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Man...

Scott Burr in Ben Lomond CA

>Ospreys and an Eagle wow. Logs and a show too! There's a Eagle preserve up the road from me. I've only see 1 once it was huge! Pearched on top of a DF

looked about 4 feet tall.

Scott lamenting sitting in a cube farm and contemplating why I didn't become a gardner...

Re: Western White Pine

5/15/04, 3:22 AM #5

Bill Houghton
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Of course, Bob, you're leaving out

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>dropping a big chunk of timber on your foot.

muscling a log onto the truck (or up the hill to the tractor; whatever) on a day that the rain's so cold it feels a needle scaler, and your raincoat leaks.

etc. etc.

Still, I'd rather be a shop bum than the wage slave I am.

Western White Pine

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