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Re: Tree Growth
Bert-man,
The use of wood per se, has changed dramatically over the last couple of centuries, but lets reduce our view point to just our lifetimes. Maine, which is one of the heaviest forested (by percentage) states in the union has seen dramatic changes in wood harvesting. Clear cutting has almost been abandoned due to the environmental disaster it brings to the areas effected. The pulp wood business which sustained the forestry business in this state for decades has dwindled as we watched paper mill after paper mill close their doors. SAPPI is all there is left of that business here, which is the South African Paper and Pulp Industry with a home office in Johannesburg. No longer do wood cutters leave the limbs and brush that result from cutting down trees on the forest floor, all that is chipped up and blown into huge trailers and delivered to bio-fuel generating stations.
Most of our building lumber here, comes from either small local outfits with their own wood lots, or Canada. Down South in Boo-Boo land, it is very common to see logging trucks loaded with long-leaf pine logs that are hardly large enough in diameter to cut a single lengthy 2"X 4" stud from! I never have figured out if it all goes into pulp for paper or wood chips for chip-board. When they cut pulp up here it is trucked out in 4-foot logs.
Over all, like much else, it has become (as you point out) a world-wide business, harvested wherever it grows, by the cheapest labor available (they have some fantastic harvesting machinery available today!!) and shipped to wherever it is needed. The world grows ever smaller decade by decade.
Roger
Bert-man,
The use of wood per se, has changed dramatically over the last couple of centuries, but lets reduce our view point to just our lifetimes. Maine, which is one of the heaviest forested (by percentage) states in the union has seen dramatic changes in wood harvesting. Clear cutting has almost been abandoned due to the environmental disaster it brings to the areas effected. The pulp wood business which sustained the forestry business in this state for decades has dwindled as we watched paper mill after paper mill close their doors. SAPPI is all there is left of that business here, which is the South African Paper and Pulp Industry with a home office in Johannesburg. No longer do wood cutters leave the limbs and brush that result from cutting down trees on the forest floor, all that is chipped up and blown into huge trailers and delivered to bio-fuel generating stations.
Most of our building lumber here, comes from either small local outfits with their own wood lots, or Canada. Down South in Boo-Boo land, it is very common to see logging trucks loaded with long-leaf pine logs that are hardly large enough in diameter to cut a single lengthy 2"X 4" stud from! I never have figured out if it all goes into pulp for paper or wood chips for chip-board. When they cut pulp up here it is trucked out in 4-foot logs.
Over all, like much else, it has become (as you point out) a world-wide business, harvested wherever it grows, by the cheapest labor available (they have some fantastic harvesting machinery available today!!) and shipped to wherever it is needed. The world grows ever smaller decade by decade.
Roger
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Re: Ahh, Good Old American Manufacturing...
Oh boy!! Another Monty Python fan! I knew I liked you right off!!
How about singing the SPAM song?
Could I sell you a parrot? (It's not a dead parrot..)
How about lupine... BLOODY LUPINE!?!?!
I do enjoy British humor..
Rog
Oh boy!! Another Monty Python fan! I knew I liked you right off!!
How about singing the SPAM song?
Could I sell you a parrot? (It's not a dead parrot..)
How about lupine... BLOODY LUPINE!?!?!
I do enjoy British humor..
Rog
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Re: MTD Yardman Transaxle Rebuild
Geez Boo, tell Linda that she just blew my idea for your birthday present! I had an old pair of slippers that I salvaged out of the dump around 15 years ago that I was going to wrap up and give to you.. I mean sure they have a couple holes worn through them in spots, but they are comfy as all get out and I thought you'd like 'em... Now I have to start all over again and see what else I can find (that's real cheap) that can give you.. Dang women. They'll screw you up every time....
Rog
This post is especially for Roger (Goomba) he thinks I'm not "frugal" enough, well here's proof I am, after 10 years of the WUNNNNERFUL feelin and comfort that these slippers have given me, that my wifey has thrown out countless times, and I rescued from a disasterous fate each time she did, I finally succummed to her deepest desires, to rid our lives of these embarrassments (to her) hell, I think they jus got broke in good ! She gave me my B-day present, .. a new pair, NOW I gotta spend years breakin these newbies in ! Oh well, happy wife, happy life !! ....:cool2:
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Geez Boo, tell Linda that she just blew my idea for your birthday present! I had an old pair of slippers that I salvaged out of the dump around 15 years ago that I was going to wrap up and give to you.. I mean sure they have a couple holes worn through them in spots, but they are comfy as all get out and I thought you'd like 'em... Now I have to start all over again and see what else I can find (that's real cheap) that can give you.. Dang women. They'll screw you up every time....
Rog
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Re: MTD Yardman Transaxle Rebuild
Good Mornin Chuck, Yep looks like by to-nite, the "bell will ring" 150,000 , 13-1/2 months, I just know that's a record, doncha think ??
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Good Mornin Chuck, Yep looks like by to-nite, the "bell will ring" 150,000 , 13-1/2 months, I just know that's a record, doncha think ??
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Re: Ahh, Good Old American Manufacturing...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00x98tn
I used to enjoy Monty Python in the day, now I tune into Brandon O,Carroll's Mrs. Browns Boys.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00x98tn
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Re: MTD Yardman Transaxle Rebuild
YEAH !! not too shabby, comfy right off the bat, BUT I'm sure gonna miss my ol fav's, sometimes a guy just get's "attached" to certain things and HATE'S to let go of them, I still have 2 shirts I bought in High-School, still in excellent shape, (made in U.S,A.) ..AND, they still fit !! AHHhhh nostalgia ehhh ??
YEAH !! not too shabby, comfy right off the bat, BUT I'm sure gonna miss my ol fav's, sometimes a guy just get's "attached" to certain things and HATE'S to let go of them, I still have 2 shirts I bought in High-School, still in excellent shape, (made in U.S,A.) ..AND, they still fit !! AHHhhh nostalgia ehhh ??
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Re: MTD Yardman Transaxle Rebuild
That's the way mine all seem to go.............dunno how come.......
That's the way mine all seem to go.............dunno how come.......