You guys who are paying near-retail price for lumber, or even a buck a board
> foot, don't know the meaning.
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> Gloat is when you spend ten grand on a scruffy old Woodmizer mill, 4wd
> tractor and a few new chains for the saw, go out in the woods, and manage
> over the course of a year to cut over 20,000 board feet of timbers and
> boards, about 2/3 pine and the rest ash and cherry and sticker it all in the
> yard. Realize that you love doing it so much that you'd rather run the mill
> than spend the time in the shop, so your time costs nothing to you. The
> best part is so you can build a house and shop using your own trees on your
> own land and save a pile of $$$. At last count, able to put
probably forty
thousand dollars back into appliances, tile and fixtures for what would have
> been a pretty bland and uninspired house.
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> Gloat is also realizing that your friends and colleagues know you have a
> mill, and will gladly give you trees and logs because they need to get rid
> of them. That's why you still have several thousand board feet of white oak
> and sugar maple in the yard needing to be cut, and why there's a 32"
> diameter cherry tree that scales out at over 1500 board feet sitting in the
> woods in the next town over, and all you have to do is go get it. Or why,
> because of the generosity of a friend, you can make all the counters in your
> kitchen out of 8/4 beech instead of formica. What's the price of all this?
> Needing to do the work yourself, working harder that you've ever worked
> before, because it's all worth it in the end.
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> The best gloat of all is having a house full of kids who want to spend time
> with their Dad in the shop, making 'stuff', and a wife who
appreciates the
effort and encourages my so-called 'hobby'.
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> JonE
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And here I thought Gloat was a "Loud Goat" what was I thinking?