Tractors and wood! Show your pics
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goeduck
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Crazy that we cannot mill our own lumber, that it has to go to Canada to get the best price. :thumbsdown: :thumbsdown: :thumbsdown:
dragoneggs
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Always wanted my own mill. For those spalted maples, etc. For my own woodworking.
goeduck
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I had to look up splated maple...... so THAT is what those two cords of firewood I just finished burning is called. :banghead::banghead::banghead:
Oh well, I enjoyed looking at the patterns when I was putting it in the wood stove :confused3:
Sawyer Rob
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I have a couple maple logs out back right now, that I left out there to "spalt". I'll be milling them this spring, so we will see how they do...
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Snobdds
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"For years, the U.S. lumber industry has alleged that Canadian producers have an unfair advantage because they harvest most of their wood from publicly owned forests, where they pay cheaper prices to cut timber. When that wood, primarily used to build houses, is unloaded in the U.S. market, it hurts local lumber manufacturers who employ thousands across Maine."
Your house was likely built with Canadian lumber, and it’s reigniting a trade war — The Point — Bangor Daily News — BDN Maine
dragoneggs
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Crazy, yes but I'm one of lucky ones here who can mill their own lumber and my son has a shingle mill, so I can built it and also get shingles at a discount, his mother said so, and that might be one of the reasons why there isn't so many lumber mills nowadays, alot of land owners now have their own bandmill, so instead of people working in a lumber mill, they're working at a bandmill manufacturing company making portable bandmills. The end result is now I can e get the best price on a 2x4, and who doesn't need a 2x4....
I remember back in the 60s, there were lumber mills everywhere and some of them were huge, ten acres of sawed lumber stacked up, but now very few lumber mills around. Also in Maine there is no one now that does big circular saw blade work, my son has to take his shingle mill blades to Canada to someone with broken english to get them hammered out, imagine that taking a hammer to a saw blade so is to get it running true, it's getting to be a lost art. Not only that but my son also has to compete with Canadian shingles sold at HD and that makes it a whole different challenge.
Snobdds <<<<<WOW that was a good read, you should post that on that other thread on TBN, something about>>>> New Trump Tariffs.
Your house was likely built with Canadian lumber, and it’s reigniting a trade war — The Point — Bangor Daily News — BDN Maine
Your house was likely built with Canadian lumber, and it’s reigniting a trade war — The Point — Bangor Daily News — BDN Maine
