🚀 go-pugleaf

Don Glisson wrote:
> 
> NASCAR wrote:
> > >Kara, are you nuts??? That tree is worth many dollars!!! You should
> > >get something for it!!!
> >
> > <snip>
> Also, you should be aware that lumber mills will not take lumber from
> inside of a city. They worry about nails from clothes line, bird houses,
> etc. that would ruin their saw blade.

When Fran came through, we saved over 10,000 board feet
of mostly oak, but some poplar, pine, walnut and cherry.
It was sawn with no complaints by Ray Hecht's sawmill 
up in Hillsboro (732-8797).  He will come to your trees, 
works quickly and accurately and charges a fair price.  Each
blade he has to sharpen costs you a certain amount of money,
and the more nails you hit the more it costs you.  Other
types of sawmills (rotary blades) are very worried about
nails because their blades could actually shatter when
contacting nails.  Interestingly enough, most aren't
really worried about little nails: if the tree is old
enough, evidently it was common practice to hammer old
horseshoes into the tree to provide a hitching loop to
tie horses to.  Wow.  I've seen some honkin' pieces of
metal in trees cut by the bandsaw - glad it wasn't a 
traditional sawmill!

If anyone else has large walnut trees around, I wouldn't
mind taking a look at them to see if they're worth my
saving.
-- 
Brent Harsh - KD4PBO          Nortel (Northern Telecom)
cnc291-@-nortel.ca           Research Triangle Park,  NC
Cary, NC                      Not Nortel's Opinions