Question for Alaskan Sawmillers

[mart]

Jim,

Best of luck in your endeavor. Please contact me when you get up here and I'll be happy to help with some of your questions. You might check with the Matsu Borough for their Tax and LID sales and their over the counter land sales. Sometimes you can pick up a lot or a few lots pretty reasonable. Some are remote and some have road access. I bought a couple of lots on the road system just north of Willow on a Tax and LID sale about 12 years ago. Other than a driveway I haven't done anything with the ground. One of these days I'll build a cabin on it to sell.

There are some good logs in some areas in South Central. Most logs are small but every now and then you'll hit on some big timber. My best friend is a heavy equipment operator and he is always finding good logs for us to cut. In fact he and I have cut almost enough for his cabin from logs he has hauled home from work.

Magicman, please stop by when your up this way. I'd be honored to meet you. That goes for any FF member in Alaska or traveling to Alaska.

[Magicman]

Magicman, please stop by when your up this way. I'd be honored to meet you. That goes for any FF member in Alaska or traveling to Alaska.

[starmac]

We were glaciered out of the log sale I am currently hauling off of early last winter.
All the logs that were decked up and over summered, we have been hauling to the pellet mill for pulp price.
Most were nice saw logs, just been decked up since this time last year. I have got to get a self loader or some other way of unloading my truck myself, I could have bought several loads cheap.

[caveman]

I visited Alaska when I was in college in May of 1989 right after the Exxon Valdez spill.  We rode our bikes from Anchorage to Fairbanks to Valdez and took a ferry to Whittier and then pedaled on back to Anchorage(we packed our clothes, sleeping bags and other gear on the bikes).  It was nearly a 900 mile ride and accomplished in about two weeks.  I vowed never to return to Alaska unless it was to stay.  I fell in love with it.  On another note, I never realized what people from other places were talking about when they complained about Florida's humidity until our plane landed in Tampa upon our return. 

They were paying decent wages to folks to clean rocks and oily birds in Valdez, I was tempted to stay.  The only place in Alaska that felt like home was Delta Junction.  There were a lot of lifted trucks wearing Swamper tires in Delta Junction.  We have not felt 59°F here in over eight months.
Caveman

[starmac]

My youngest daughter and her family moved up here from florida, it was a big change from laying on the beach, but they love it.

I knew and old gent from Florida that mived to the Yukon in 64, when he finally decided to retire he was adamant about moving back to florida, where he owned property. I tried to tell him he wouldn't be able to live there, but he tried anyway, he was back and bought a house in Teslin within 6 months. lol