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#1
Never see anything like it around here. Shaga was going to be a big thing according to media hype. It kinda works like a pyramid scheme, the collector wasn't getting much when travel and time was factored in. Anyone I knew doing it was in the off season, seasonal worker or hobby farmer. You have to have an idea of where to look and have access, so most collectors tend to be woodlot owners or work a lot on public land. I could count on one hand the number of people who I knew about that were once interested. Only knew of one buyer in these parts. When there is only one buyer, it never works well for the collectors.  ffcheesy
#2
Health and Safety / Re: Crazy Papers
Last post by SwampDonkey - Today at 03:42:50 AM
Pharmacies have been caught doing medication reviews and billing Medicare for it because of some change in the way health care is being delivered. From what I've seen lately in the news the practice is unethical and not necessary and some provincial regulators are looking to sue. Also some pharmacies are using kick back schemes to push meds, which is illegal up here. 
#3
General Board / Re: The weather 2024
Last post by SwampDonkey - Today at 03:29:49 AM
2" of snow remaining at the same spot I measured since the big snow bomb. 38°F here this morning. Been a steady rain here for many hours. We had a 1 hr break after dinner Thursday, so I went for a walk, by the time I got back it was rolling back in and has never stopped. The grassy area has a nice squishy feeling.  ffcheesy
#4
General Board / Re: It came from China
Last post by SwampDonkey - Today at 03:08:01 AM
I cut one every once in awhile in trails for firewood and have not seen any beetle galleries or holes yet. But like I said, probably just lucky so far. We also have a lot of ash on fence rows and my cousin has a grove of ash along a small creek that used to be pastured, now Christmas tree farm. They are probably 16" diameter now and not old, open grown mostly. Not dying yet. Again, I suspect luck. Ash is everywhere here, clear cuts tend to grow up in aspen and a lot of ash around here on these old farms. Ash is a prolific seeder around here.
#5
Forestry and Logging / Re: RIP Jay Maine Mill
Last post by SwampDonkey - Today at 02:57:07 AM
Some mills have a buy back scheme on power rates. Sell power higher to a government utility and buy back cheaper. That is common.
#6
Forestry and Logging / Re: RIP Jay Maine Mill
Last post by Ianab - Today at 02:46:32 AM
Quote from: maple flats on Yesterday at 09:21:25 PMAvailable energy can also be a major factor. To power a mill takes huge amounts of power,
A lot of the larger mills run a co-gen electric plant. They have waste wood / sawdust / bark for fuel, and already need steam for the drying kiln. The electric system needs to be in place anyway, so all they really have to add is a steam turbine generator. They can even sell power back to the grid if they are generating more than the mill site needs. 
#7
Thanks.   I was born and raised in WV , got married and moved to OH. I'm only a 1 1/2 from the OH river, up on a hill, so i can still see the homeland.
#8
General Board / Re: It came from China
Last post by Southside - Yesterday at 10:39:46 PM
Quote from: SwampDonkey on Yesterday at 04:41:09 AMThere's always survivors. :thumbsup:  We've had it up here for at least 5 years. I have not seen any ash dying yet. My ash are mostly young trees, one here and there might be 8" diameter. I figure it's mostly young age and good health in their favor. I'm also on lucks side so far.
I hate to say it but that might be about when you start to see the problems develop.  It took several years to realize the infection was here, suddenly you notice the bark slipping and the crown dying back, by then the tree has been infected for years.  Even the 8" ones were stripped here.  Have quite a few that send up suckers for a couple of years, but those all die back eventually. 
#9
Sawmills and Milling / Re: Whatcha Sawin' 2024 ??
Last post by Peter Drouin - Yesterday at 10:24:37 PM
Thanks. I think I went with too thin of steel 1/4" or less. I was getting flex in the base plate. I have some 3/8"---1/2" around flat stock I will add to the bottom.
#10
General Board / Re: a little disappointed
Last post by chet - Yesterday at 10:18:42 PM
It's nice that good caring folk far and away out number the idiots of this world!

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