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Date: 10 Oct 2006 18:16:19
From: Richard Clements
Subject: too much of a good thing
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a guy I work with is ripping out a cherry orchard to put in a golf
course and is tearing out most of the trees I've fill my truck 3 time so
far with 8"-15" diameter logs 4'-6' long and there is still tons more,
the real big stuff can't load by my self so I haven't gotten it yet.
SWMBO - is upset because I come home late (doesn't care how much
money I'm saving, doesn't understand why I don't use pine to build
stuff) and how much room I'm going to take up with this (thinks the
garage is for parking cars)
Co-worker - Wants to burn it and be done with it, and it really being
nice by letting be sort though the slash piles
ME - I'm upset because I need a bigger truck or a trailer and some help,
some of logs I can't hardly more let alone load into the truck so I can
bring stuff home
like I said to much of a good thing
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Date: 11 Oct 2006 00:14:46
From:
Subject: Re: too much of a good thing
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In article <12ioduo3vjd4g64@corp.supernews.com >,
Richard Clements <richard@NOSPAM.clemnet.org > wrote:
>a guy I work with is ripping out a cherry orchard to put in a golf
>course and is tearing out most of the trees I've fill my truck 3 time so
>far with 8"-15" diameter logs 4'-6' long and there is still tons more,
>the real big stuff can't load by my self so I haven't gotten it yet.
>
>SWMBO - is upset because I come home late (doesn't care how much
>money I'm saving, doesn't understand why I don't use pine to build
>stuff) and how much room I'm going to take up with this (thinks the
>garage is for parking cars)
>
>Co-worker - Wants to burn it and be done with it, and it really being
>nice by letting be sort though the slash piles
>
>ME - I'm upset because I need a bigger truck or a trailer and some help,
>some of logs I can't hardly more let alone load into the truck so I can
>bring stuff home
>
>
>like I said to much of a good thing
>
>
Man, I feel your pain! But just think of even how much _more_ money
you'll save after you get that truck, trailer, and a bandsaw to
process those logs with!
--
No dumb questions, just dumb answers.
Larry Wasserman - Baltimore, Maryland - lwasserm@charm.net
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Date: 11 Oct 2006 04:52:06
From: Upscale
Subject: Re: too much of a good thing
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<lwasserm@fellspt.charm.net > wrote in message
>
> Man, I feel your pain! But just think of even how much _more_ money
> you'll save after you get that truck, trailer, and a bandsaw to
> process those logs with!
Ahhh, the self-delusion of the home woodworker. Rationalize yourself into
buying more tools so you can save money building or using something else.
Unfortunately, the delusion never ends and you're constantly buying more
tools to save more money ad infinitum. It's only a number of years down the
road that most of us realize just *how much* money we spent trying to save
money.
At least we had a good time trying to save all this money. Better than the
guy with a whole boatload of saved cash who is mostly too old to enjoy it.
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Date: 11 Oct 2006 07:50:55
From: George Max
Subject: Re: too much of a good thing
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On Wed, 11 2006 04:52:06 -0400, "Upscale" <upscale@teksavvy.com >
wrote:
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><lwasserm@fellspt.charm.net> wrote in message
>>
>> Man, I feel your pain! But just think of even how much _more_ money
>> you'll save after you get that truck, trailer, and a bandsaw to
>> process those logs with!
>
>Ahhh, the self-delusion of the home woodworker. Rationalize yourself into
>buying more tools so you can save money building or using something else.
>Unfortunately, the delusion never ends and you're constantly buying more
>tools to save more money ad infinitum. It's only a number of years down the
>road that most of us realize just *how much* money we spent trying to save
>money.
>
>At least we had a good time trying to save all this money. Better than the
>guy with a whole boatload of saved cash who is mostly too old to enjoy it.
>
You can't take it with you. You'll be filling the minutes of your
life doing *something*! I think this is better than spending it at a
bar or the pursuit of a bigger and bigger number on a financial
statement and then ending up giving it all to a nursing home at the
end.
Enjoy life now. Hard to say how much any of us have.
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Date: 11 Oct 2006 21:18:31
From:
Subject: Re: too much of a good thing
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In article <4c083$452cb0b8$cef88bc5$12334@TEKSAVVY.COM >,
Upscale <upscale@teksavvy.com > wrote:
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><lwasserm@fellspt.charm.net> wrote in message
>>
>> Man, I feel your pain! But just think of even how much _more_ money
>> you'll save after you get that truck, trailer, and a bandsaw to
>> process those logs with!
>
>Ahhh, the self-delusion of the home woodworker. Rationalize yourself into
>buying more tools so you can save money building or using something else.
>Unfortunately, the delusion never ends and you're constantly buying more
>tools to save more money ad infinitum. It's only a number of years down the
>road that most of us realize just *how much* money we spent trying to save
>money.
>
>At least we had a good time trying to save all this money. Better than the
>guy with a whole boatload of saved cash who is mostly too old to enjoy it.
>
>
"boatload of saved cash" Now there's an oxymoron if I ever saw one.
Believe me, I tried the boat thing about 30 years ago and like the old
saying goes, a boat is a _hole_ in the water where you can throw your
money. "Boatload of saved cash!" Sheesh... that's agood one.
Reminds me of when SWMBO comes home with a carload (and it's a station
wagon too) of bags and boxes after shopping at the big sale, and says
something like "I could have saved another two hundered dollars if I
hadn't tun out of money..."
--
No dumb questions, just dumb answers.
Larry Wasserman - Baltimore, Maryland - lwasserm@charm.net
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Date: 12 Oct 2006 03:16:58
From: Puckdropper
Subject: Re: too much of a good thing
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lwasserm@fellspt.charm.net () wrote in
news:G_SdnasB5_JqOLDYnZ2dnUVZ_uqdnZ2d@charm.net:
*snip*
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> Reminds me of when SWMBO comes home with a carload (and it's a station
> wagon too) of bags and boxes after shopping at the big sale, and says
> something like "I could have saved another two hundered dollars if I
> hadn't tun out of money..."
>
I think every married couple has stories like this. :-) My mom used to
tell my dad how much she saved, and he'd usually say, "Yeah, but how much
did you spend?"
Puckdropper
--
Wise is the man who attempts to answer his question before asking it.
To email me directly, send a message to puckdropper (at) fastmail.fm
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Date: 12 Oct 2006 09:12:38
From: mac davis
Subject: Re: too much of a good thing
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On Wed, 11 2006 21:18:31 -0500, lwasserm@fellspt.charm.net () wrote:
<snip >
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>Reminds me of when SWMBO comes home with a carload (and it's a station
>wagon too) of bags and boxes after shopping at the big sale, and says
>something like "I could have saved another two hundered dollars if I
>hadn't tun out of money..."
>
yep.. the 2 words that married men fear most are "cute" and "sale"
Mac
https://home.comcast.net/~mac.davis
https://home.comcast.net/~mac.davis/wood_stuff.htm
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Date: 11 Oct 2006 01:26:35
From: Nova
Subject: Re: too much of a good thing
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Richard Clements wrote:
> a guy I work with is ripping out a cherry orchard to put in a golf
> course and is tearing out most of the trees I've fill my truck 3 time so
> far with 8"-15" diameter logs 4'-6' long and there is still tons more,
> the real big stuff can't load by my self so I haven't gotten it yet.
>
I'd be interested in knowing how the lumber from a fruit bearing cherry
tree turns out. The lumber from these trees are not usually
commercially harvested.
--
Jack Novak
Buffalo, NY - USA
novasys@verizon.net
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Date: 10 Oct 2006 20:39:06
From: Richard Clements
Subject: Re: too much of a good thing
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Nova wrote:
> Richard Clements wrote:
>> a guy I work with is ripping out a cherry orchard to put in a golf
>> course and is tearing out most of the trees I've fill my truck 3 time
>> so far with 8"-15" diameter logs 4'-6' long and there is still tons
>> more, the real big stuff can't load by my self so I haven't gotten it
>> yet.
>>
>
> I'd be interested in knowing how the lumber from a fruit bearing cherry
> tree turns out. The lumber from these trees are not usually
> commercially harvested.
>
did some last year turned out nice
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Date: 11 Oct 2006 10:40:45
From: mac davis
Subject: Re: too much of a good thing
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On Tue, 10 2006 20:39:06 -0600, Richard Clements
<richard@NOSPAM.clemnet.org > wrote:
>Nova wrote:
>> Richard Clements wrote:
>>> a guy I work with is ripping out a cherry orchard to put in a golf
>>> course and is tearing out most of the trees I've fill my truck 3 time
>>> so far with 8"-15" diameter logs 4'-6' long and there is still tons
>>> more, the real big stuff can't load by my self so I haven't gotten it
>>> yet.
>>>
>>
>> I'd be interested in knowing how the lumber from a fruit bearing cherry
>> tree turns out. The lumber from these trees are not usually
>> commercially harvested.
>>
>
>did some last year turned out nice
All that cherry and none of it getting turned?
You just can't know how weird that sounds to folks on the left coast!
Seems you folks have cherry like we have pine... lol
Mac
https://home.comcast.net/~mac.davis
https://home.comcast.net/~mac.davis/wood_stuff.htm
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Date: 11 Oct 2006 21:42:21
From: Richard Clements
Subject: Re: too much of a good thing
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mac davis wrote:
> On Tue, 10 2006 20:39:06 -0600, Richard Clements
> <richard@NOSPAM.clemnet.org> wrote:
>
>> Nova wrote:
>>> Richard Clements wrote:
>>>> a guy I work with is ripping out a cherry orchard to put in a golf
>>>> course and is tearing out most of the trees I've fill my truck 3 time
>>>> so far with 8"-15" diameter logs 4'-6' long and there is still tons
>>>> more, the real big stuff can't load by my self so I haven't gotten it
>>>> yet.
>>>>
>>> I'd be interested in knowing how the lumber from a fruit bearing cherry
>>> tree turns out. The lumber from these trees are not usually
>>> commercially harvested.
>>>
>> did some last year turned out nice
>
> All that cherry and none of it getting turned?
> You just can't know how weird that sounds to folks on the left coast!
>
> Seems you folks have cherry like we have pine... lol
> Mac
>
> https://home.comcast.net/~mac.davis
> https://home.comcast.net/~mac.davis/wood_stuff.htm
I wish, were high plains desert, Boise is the city of trees only by
comparison, wild trees are almost all pine or willow, fruit land has
Orchards but before this all the stuff I've gotten was urban trees
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Date: 12 Oct 2006 09:15:00
From: mac davis
Subject: Re: too much of a good thing
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On Wed, 11 2006 21:42:21 -0600, Richard Clements
<richard@NOSPAM.clemnet.org > wrote:
>> All that cherry and none of it getting turned?
>> You just can't know how weird that sounds to folks on the left coast!
>>
>> Seems you folks have cherry like we have pine... lol
>> Mac
>>
>> https://home.comcast.net/~mac.davis
>> https://home.comcast.net/~mac.davis/wood_stuff.htm
>
>I wish, were high plains desert, Boise is the city of trees only by
>comparison, wild trees are almost all pine or willow, fruit land has
>Orchards but before this all the stuff I've gotten was urban trees
I feel your pain...
If it weren't for my friend Chuck in N.Y., I would still have not turned cherry
or maple..
He sends me care packages regularly and what a pleasant education it's been...
Mac
https://home.comcast.net/~mac.davis
https://home.comcast.net/~mac.davis/wood_stuff.htm
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Date: 11 Oct 2006 00:56:15
From: Toller
Subject: Re: too much of a good thing
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"Richard Clements" <richard@NOSPAM.clemnet.org > wrote in message
news:12ioduo3vjd4g64@corp.supernews.com...
>a guy I work with is ripping out a cherry orchard to put in a golf course
>and is tearing out most of the trees I've fill my truck 3 time so far with
>8"-15" diameter logs 4'-6' long and there is still tons more, the real big
>stuff can't load by my self so I haven't gotten it yet.
>
I am not sure I would bother with the 8" stuff. By the time you get past
the sapwood there won't be much left.
Every make lumber before? You are in for quite an adventure.
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Date: 10 Oct 2006 20:37:54
From: Richard Clements
Subject: Re: too much of a good thing
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Toller wrote:
> "Richard Clements" <richard@NOSPAM.clemnet.org> wrote in message
> news:12ioduo3vjd4g64@corp.supernews.com...
>> a guy I work with is ripping out a cherry orchard to put in a golf course
>> and is tearing out most of the trees I've fill my truck 3 time so far with
>> 8"-15" diameter logs 4'-6' long and there is still tons more, the real big
>> stuff can't load by my self so I haven't gotten it yet.
>>
> I am not sure I would bother with the 8" stuff. By the time you get past
> the sapwood there won't be much left.
>
> Every make lumber before? You are in for quite an adventure.
>
>
did a bunch of maple, willow, and cherry last spring, so now it's nice
and cured, the cherry turned out really nice, same with the maple, the
willow is so, so, wasn't expecting much but it was free but the labor
and if you stain it right it looks kinda like walnut, just not as heavy
or hard
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Date: 11 Oct 2006 00:49:36
From: The3rd Earl Of Derby
Subject: Re: too much of a good thing
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Richard Clements wrote:
> a guy I work with is ripping out a cherry orchard to put in a golf
> course and is tearing out most of the trees I've fill my truck 3 time
> so far with 8"-15" diameter logs 4'-6' long and there is still tons
> more, the real big stuff can't load by my self so I haven't gotten it
> yet.
>
> SWMBO - is upset because I come home late (doesn't care how much
> money I'm saving, doesn't understand why I don't use pine to build
> stuff) and how much room I'm going to take up with this (thinks the
> garage is for parking cars)
>
> Co-worker - Wants to burn it and be done with it, and it really being
> nice by letting be sort though the slash piles
>
> ME - I'm upset because I need a bigger truck or a trailer and some
> help, some of logs I can't hardly more let alone load into the truck
> so I can bring stuff home
>
>
> like I said to much of a good thing
I think you've *Treeted* yourself to enough,tell SWMBO she's barking up the
wrong tree. :-)
--
Sir Benjamin Middlethwaite
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Date: 11 Oct 2006 00:31:17
From: Allen Roy
Subject: Re: too much of a good thing
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Where do you live? Could you rent a trailer for some of them?
Allen
Mutilating good wood since 1998
"Richard Clements" <richard@NOSPAM.clemnet.org > wrote in message
news:12ioduo3vjd4g64@corp.supernews.com...
>a guy I work with is ripping out a cherry orchard to put in a golf course
>and is tearing out most of the trees I've fill my truck 3 time so far with
>8"-15" diameter logs 4'-6' long and there is still tons more, the real big
>stuff can't load by my self so I haven't gotten it yet.
>
> SWMBO - is upset because I come home late (doesn't care how much money I'm
> saving, doesn't understand why I don't use pine to build stuff) and how
> much room I'm going to take up with this (thinks the garage is for parking
> cars)
>
> Co-worker - Wants to burn it and be done with it, and it really being nice
> by letting be sort though the slash piles
>
> ME - I'm upset because I need a bigger truck or a trailer and some help,
> some of logs I can't hardly more let alone load into the truck so I can
> bring stuff home
>
>
> like I said to much of a good thing
>
>
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Date: 11 Oct 2006 00:29:12
From: Doug Miller
Subject: Re: too much of a good thing
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In article <12ioduo3vjd4g64@corp.supernews.com >, Richard Clements <richard@NOSPAM.clemnet.org> wrote:
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>ME - I'm upset because I need a bigger truck or a trailer and some help,
>some of logs I can't hardly more let alone load into the truck so I can
>bring stuff home
I have a full-size pickup *and* a Suburban. If you live anywhere near
Indianapolis, email me (see my sig for correct address) and I'll help you haul
it in exchange for some of the wood.
--
Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)
It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again.
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Date: 10 Oct 2006 20:33:23
From: Richard Clements
Subject: Re: too much of a good thing
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Doug Miller wrote:
> In article <12ioduo3vjd4g64@corp.supernews.com>, Richard Clements <richard@NOSPAM.clemnet.org> wrote:
>> ME - I'm upset because I need a bigger truck or a trailer and some help,
>> some of logs I can't hardly more let alone load into the truck so I can
>> bring stuff home
>
> I have a full-size pickup *and* a Suburban. If you live anywhere near
> Indianapolis, email me (see my sig for correct address) and I'll help you haul
> it in exchange for some of the wood.
>
I'm in Caldwell, ID and the trees are in Fruit land about 30 miles from here
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Date: 13 Oct 2006 14:15:17
From: bf
Subject: Re: too much of a good thing
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Richard Clements wrote:
> a guy I work with is ripping out a cherry orchard to put in a golf
> course and is tearing out most of the trees I've fill my truck 3 time so
> far with 8"-15" diameter logs 4'-6' long and there is still tons more,
> the real big stuff can't load by my self so I haven't gotten it yet.
>
Congratulations. that's awesome. Don't worry, eventually the wife will
accept she can't
park in the garage anymore.
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Date: 13 Oct 2006 15:30:34
From: jo4hn
Subject: Re: too much of a good thing
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bf wrote:
> Richard Clements wrote:
>
>>a guy I work with is ripping out a cherry orchard to put in a golf
>>course and is tearing out most of the trees I've fill my truck 3 time so
>>far with 8"-15" diameter logs 4'-6' long and there is still tons more,
>>the real big stuff can't load by my self so I haven't gotten it yet.
>>
>
>
> Congratulations. that's awesome. Don't worry, eventually the wife will
> accept she can't
> park in the garage anymore.
>
Remember, the temporary partition that is used to separate cars from
workshop is called a garage door.
big toothy grin,
jo4hn
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Date: 16 Oct 2006 18:26:16
From: Puckdropper
Subject: Re: too much of a good thing
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jo4hn <jo4hn@mahalo.charter.net > wrote in news:12j04s94o09eqc5
@news.supernews.com:
> Remember, the temporary partition that is used to separate cars from
> workshop is called a garage door.
> big toothy grin,
> jo4hn
>
We had our van in the garage *once*... In our previous house, the only
time the van was in the garage was before we moved in.
That big 10' door is to let you get the table saw outside and the plywood
in!
Puckdropper
--
Wise is the man who attempts to answer his question before asking it.
To email me directly, send a message to puckdropper (at) fastmail.fm
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