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Started by Sixacresand, June 03, 2021, 07:28:08 PM

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Sixacresand

The local TV station news was doing a story on lumber prices vs land owner prices.  FF member WDH was a good pick for them to interview.  
"Sometimes you can make more hay with less equipment if you just use your head."  Tom, Forestry Forum.  Tenth year with a LT40 Woodmizer,

Raider Bill

Great pick!
Did he use a lot of big words? Lol
Can you get a link?
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barbender

Too many irons in the fire

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Southside

We must break from this important story to bring you breaking news.  Our star is denying this story....claims no knowledge of said interview.  

I smell a cover up!!!  We need a commission to investigate this!!! 
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Tacotodd

Trying harder everyday.

Southside

Maybe I should move this to another area that gets more attention?  :D
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Sixacresand

Quote from: Raider Bill on June 03, 2021, 09:03:35 PM
Did he use a lot of big words? Lol
Can you get a link?
He did good with his choice of words.   Also showed him operating his tractor and feeding a planer. 
"Sometimes you can make more hay with less equipment if you just use your head."  Tom, Forestry Forum.  Tenth year with a LT40 Woodmizer,

Sixacresand

"Sometimes you can make more hay with less equipment if you just use your head."  Tom, Forestry Forum.  Tenth year with a LT40 Woodmizer,

Dan_Shade

WDH must be a bit like Chuck Norris, he scares his trees right past the Sawmill and kiln, and feeds them directly into the planer! 
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Roxie

Now we're talking!  We can all say we knew him before he was famous. 

Say when

Magicman

And he speaketh the truth.  Government subsidized planting (CRP) helped to put us in this overabundance of harvest ready trees situation with little market value. 
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barbender

I'm always struck by how whenever a subject I am well informed on gets on the news, they definitely report on the subject in a way that you can tell they have no idea what they are talking about...glad they found Danny to bring some knowledge on the subject👍 I'm really not sure why the state forester is telling people to hold of on their harvest, it really does nothing to help the situation and when a pine stand down there is due for a thinning, it's time to get it done🤷🏽‍♂️
Too many irons in the fire

Ianab

Quote from: Magicman on June 05, 2021, 04:47:53 PM
And he speaketh the truth.  Government subsidized planting (CRP) helped to put us in this overabundance of harvest ready trees situation with little market value.
It's not so much that the trees have no value, it's that there isn't the processing infrastructure locally to go along with the production.
It's taken NZ about 100 years to get a fairly stable plantation pine system functioning. Where businesses will invest in sawmills / pulp and paper factories etc, because they are sure of supply for the next 30 years. Plus the infrastructure is all in place to export bulk logs. 
Not all smooth sailing as markets change over time. A downturn in the US building industry caused a couple of companies problems as they were heavily into supplying the US market with D. Fir. The pandemic closed Chinese ports for a while and disrupted the export scene, but NZ went into lock-down soon after that, and by the time we went back to work it was business as usual. Another local mill was forced to close as they were set up to produce newsprint, and demand for that has plummeted. Mill has been sold to a consortium of new owners who have the capital to convert to packing cardboard, which is in more demand. They can make that investment because there is a 30 year supply of trees growing in the province.  And people can replant because the mill is there and operating. 
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WDH

The Reporter was at my place for over two hours and I got 20 whole seconds of air time :D. 
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firefighter ontheside

Good job Danny.  That's the way it goes.  I have been interviewed many times for the news and if they ask me 20 questions, one question will air on the news and usually not even my whole answer will air, but just the part that fits with the way they are promoting the story.  The last time I was interviewed for the news was about someone finding a bunch of drug needles on the ground and bringing them to the fire house, where I threw them in the dumpster.
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Andries

Quote from: WDH on June 05, 2021, 08:22:11 PMThe Reporter was at my place for over two hours and I got 20 whole seconds of air time :D.
If they spelled your name and credentials right - that's good journalism.
Anything else they get right is a bonus.   ;D
Well done Danny.
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Southside

Maybe they will do an In Depth follow up on your magic tree smoother.  :D
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barbender

Yeah, you definitely get the impression that Danny the Tree Farmer just grows the trees up to harvestable size, runs them through the tree smoother, and turns them straight into a dining room table😂
Too many irons in the fire

WDH

Tree smoother :D.  Hey, if it works, it works. 
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customsawyer

Good job Danny. They probably didn't understand all the big words he used in the rest of the interview. So they could only show what they could understand. It's not politically correct for them to confuse their audience.  I'm going to sneak over there and see how that tree smoother thing works. I can sell most of the rolling stock and sawmills and just smooth it and sell it.
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Jeff

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Old Greenhorn

Never depend on the media to portray an accurate picture of what is really happening. The 'tree smoothing' process is a case in point here. The reporter obviously did not listen to Danny when he explained what he does, or didn't understand him, or didn't care. It's unfortunate they had Danny and a forester in the report, bath of whom could (and probably did) relay the accurate picture, but the reporter got in the way and chopped out the useful information.
 Happens all the time. But Danny did a good job and was clear in what he relayed.
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firefighter ontheside

Maybe she used a dictionary, because here is how it defines the verb, plane.

Definition of plane (Entry 2 of 6) transitive verb. 1a : to make smooth or even : level. b : to make smooth or even by use of a plane. 2 : to remove by or as if by planing

So something that makes things smooth would be a smoother, right.   :) :)
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