New member, Cuz, alias Rob Duncan

[Cuz]

This is a great site!  I've been lurking here a while and find it most interesting.  I don't have much advice to offer compared to the present company but I sure enjoy expanding my knowledge base.  I may have a question or two at some point but a lot of my questions have already been addressed here somewhere.  Then again, some of the stuff goes over my head!
Anyway, I'm just another southern boy with a few trees I like to play with when I can.  Eat mo' grits!   ;D  ;D

[WH_Conley]

Welome Cuz, lotsa knowledge here, course sometimes ya might want to wear yer hip boots.

[Bibbyman]

Welcome Cuz!  

We can use a few more from the Land of Dixie!

[ronwood]

Welcome Cuz

You can learn something new every day on the forum.

[T_in_SC]

Welcome Cuz,  We are almost neighbors.  I'm between Columbia and Lexington.  Good to have you aboard.

[Fla._Deadheader]

  Yasser, another Grit eatin Southern Boy. Welcome, Cuz.

[pasbuild]

Wecome Cuz     Another grits eater   HUM  well I guess someone has to eat them.

[MULE_MAN]

Another Grit eater  :  What''s the world coming to  ???  ;D

Welcome Cuz   You can have my share of the Grit's  ;D

I'll just eat my meat & tater's   ;D  

[DanG]

Yo, Cuz!  I know where Monetta is. My Mama growed up around Aiken, and I been goin' there all my life. Still got a lot of kinfolk around that area. Matter of fact, there's a few that I call "Cuz"! :D :D

Welcome aboard!

T_in_SC, I guess I got kin in your neck of the woods, too. One of me uncles settled at Prosperity, right down the road from ya.

[rbarshaw]

Hey Cuz, I live near Walterboro, SC, just outside of a town called Cottageville, so were not to far off either.

This place is a wealth of knoledge, advice and, entertainment. I can't get enough of it myself.

[Ed_K]

 Welcome Cuz, just don't miss a day here. I'll use up all my alloted hours just getting caught up ;D.
 Ed

[Tom_Averwater]

Welcome Cuz, It's good  to have new members on board.  ;D Tom

[Fla._Deadheader]

  Well shoot, now that all the glad-handin is done, What's yer function, tree wise, that is ??? Ya sawin, splittin or stump sittin ???  :D :D

[DanG]

Ol' Cuz must be out playin' with his trees instead of sittin' here on the 'puter like us. :-[

[T_in_SC]

DanG, DanG, we might be real cousins.  I grew up five miles from Prosperity and most of my relatives are in that area or were from that area.

[Cuz]

Inquiring minds might not want to know this much.  Anyway Deadheader, my intersts are presently trying to figure out what to do with some really large trees on my property.  I have harvested some and had them sawn by a guy with a woodmizer.  Beleive it or not I think I got close to 3,500 bf from about six trees!  I have built the roof systems for two large sheds and still have some left over.  I would really like to build a timber frame house but between the county inspectors and the costs of that method I may have to reconsider.

I also have some other background in the wood industry. My father built furniture professionally his last 25 yrs.  And growing up I always had a job doing something related to that.  I have plenty of sawdust in my lungs!  We also ran a pallet and box business to pay for the furniture making.  I still pull out some of the projects he started occassionally.  But mostly I hunt, fish, and am raising a five year old in my spare time.  I work for the state in environmental mgt., specifically emergency planning and disaster response to chemical spills and releases.  My wife is a university equestrian coach.  I also get to feed horses when she's gone.  Whoppee!  Now, if I could get them to drag logs...hmm.

Well, stand by for the dumb questions starting anytime now!  Thanks for the warm reception.  I haven't had a chance to research all the old posts yet.  Yor're right DanG I don't sit in front of the computer too much...at least after office hours!  And T_in_SC whats your background.  I need some advice with these trees.  I also have some fish ponds down in Monetta.  Interested?    And rbarshaw, I know exactly where Cottageville is...down by Round O!  I was down there redbreast fishing not long ago on the Big Edisto.  I grew up in the South Edisto swamps.