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Hurricane Wood Salvage

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Hurricane Wood Salvage

Dave Winters, Steamboat Springs, CO

>This subject may already have been covered, but what about salvaging wood from all the downed timber from the hurricanes in Florida? I certainly don't want to belittle the great loss and tragedy of the business and homeowners of Florida, but here in the Rockies, we're starved for hardwoods that we can harvest. I'm thinking it might be worth it to haul a trailer down to Fla. and bring back some turning stock. Any Fla. people have any thoughts on this? There must be millions of board feet of good lumber going to waste in landfills and such, no?

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Barbara Gill, Remlik Virginia

>Dave I can speak for Virginia and the aftermath of last year's hurricane. There were thousands upon thousands of board feet of logs disposed of in landfills. In fact there are still hundreds of trees down here on our farm. There isn't time enough to deal with them.

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Peter Teubel

>You might want to consider getting a group together and renting a big box truck.

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Phil Axtell

>Hey Dave,

I posted here a few days ago about swapping some of our local woods for some of yours. We have a lot of Norfolk Island Pine as well as many other woods. You could bring a trailer full and return with a different trailer full.

Let me know if you're interested,

Phil Axtell

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