Billy Bones
07-01-2005, 07:35 PM
My neighbor and sawyer kicked the bucket recently. I had been after him for about 5 years to saw up my logs which were sitting there near his woodmizer. I even bought him a box of blades. Every year or so I'd go over and check on 'em and there they'd be un-touched.
Recently I noted he had been avoiding eye contact and didn't seem to recognize me when we met in town, but I chalked that up to his being a bankrupt and disgruntled long-liner and my wife being a conservation biologist with whom he frequently clashed.
Anyway, after he died I went up to fetch my logs only to discover that he'd in fact sawn the best ones up and sold em to someone else. Damnhiseyes. There were a good half dozen 6x6x8's in each of the two missing ones. I paid about 2 grand for that lot in cranes, bucket trucks, and so on.
Oh well.
The rest of my goods I brought home for the first time. At this point it looks like I'll have to knuckle under to the misery of the alaskan mill once again.
This ended up being about 20000# of very nice dry swietenia mahagoni logs (that's west indian mahogany, small leaf mahogany, cuban, etc.)
I've collected these primarily hurricane losses and a few residential removals.
The final pile was 7 biggies, the smallest of which are shown in the pics and the biggest is about 22' long or so, and a heap of smaller bits, mostly for turnings.
http://www.rkstarr.com/images/logweb1.jpg
http://www.rkstarr.com/images/logweb2.jpg
Recently I noted he had been avoiding eye contact and didn't seem to recognize me when we met in town, but I chalked that up to his being a bankrupt and disgruntled long-liner and my wife being a conservation biologist with whom he frequently clashed.
Anyway, after he died I went up to fetch my logs only to discover that he'd in fact sawn the best ones up and sold em to someone else. Damnhiseyes. There were a good half dozen 6x6x8's in each of the two missing ones. I paid about 2 grand for that lot in cranes, bucket trucks, and so on.
Oh well.
The rest of my goods I brought home for the first time. At this point it looks like I'll have to knuckle under to the misery of the alaskan mill once again.
This ended up being about 20000# of very nice dry swietenia mahagoni logs (that's west indian mahogany, small leaf mahogany, cuban, etc.)
I've collected these primarily hurricane losses and a few residential removals.
The final pile was 7 biggies, the smallest of which are shown in the pics and the biggest is about 22' long or so, and a heap of smaller bits, mostly for turnings.
http://www.rkstarr.com/images/logweb1.jpg
http://www.rkstarr.com/images/logweb2.jpg