too much of a good thing

[Richard Clements]

a guy I work with is ripping out a cherry orchard to put in a golf course and is tearing out most of the trees I've fill my truck 3 time so far with 8"-15" diameter logs 4'-6' long and there is still tons more, the real big stuff can't load by my self so I haven't gotten it yet.

SWMBO - is upset because I come home late (doesn't care how much money I'm saving, doesn't understand why I don't use pine to build stuff) and how much room I'm going to take up with this (thinks the garage is for parking cars)

Co-worker - Wants to burn it and be done with it, and it really being nice by letting be sort though the slash piles

ME - I'm upset because I need a bigger truck or a trailer and some help, some of logs I can't hardly more let alone load into the truck so I can bring stuff home

like I said to much of a good thing

[Doug Miller]

I have a full-size pickup *and* a Suburban. If you live anywhere near Indianapolis, email me (see my sig for correct address) and I'll help you haul it in exchange for some of the wood.

[Allen Roy]

Where do you live? Could you rent a trailer for some of them?

Allen Mutilating good wood since 1998

[The3rd Earl Of Derby]

I think you've *Treeted* yourself to enough,tell SWMBO she's barking up the wrong tree. :-)

[Toller]

I am not sure I would bother with the 8" stuff. By the time you get past the sapwood there won't be much left.

Every make lumber before? You are in for quite an adventure.

[Nova]

I'd be interested in knowing how the lumber from a fruit bearing cherry tree turns out. The lumber from these trees are not usually commercially harvested.

[Richard Clements]

I'm in Caldwell, ID and the trees are in Fruit land about 30 miles from here

[Richard Clements]

did a bunch of maple, willow, and cherry last spring, so now it's nice and cured, the cherry turned out really nice, same with the maple, the willow is so, so, wasn't expecting much but it was free but the labor and if you stain it right it looks kinda like walnut, just not as heavy or hard

[Richard Clements]

did some last year turned out nice

[lwasserm]

Man, I feel your pain! But just think of even how much _more_ money you'll save after you get that truck, trailer, and a bandsaw to process those logs with!

[Upscale]

Ahhh, the self-delusion of the home woodworker. Rationalize yourself into buying more tools so you can save money building or using something else. Unfortunately, the delusion never ends and you're constantly buying more tools to save more money ad infinitum. It's only a number of years down the road that most of us realize just *how much* money we spent trying to save money.

At least we had a good time trying to save all this money. Better than the guy with a whole boatload of saved cash who is mostly too old to enjoy it.

[George Max]

You can't take it with you. You'll be filling the minutes of your life doing *something*! I think this is better than spending it at a bar or the pursuit of a bigger and bigger number on a financial statement and then ending up giving it all to a nursing home at the end.

Enjoy life now. Hard to say how much any of us have.

[mac davis]

All that cherry and none of it getting turned? You just can't know how weird that sounds to folks on the left coast!

Seems you folks have cherry like we have pine... lol Mac

[lwasserm]

"boatload of saved cash" Now there's an oxymoron if I ever saw one. Believe me, I tried the boat thing about 30 years ago and like the old saying goes, a boat is a _hole_ in the water where you can throw your money. "Boatload of saved cash!" Sheesh... that's agood one.

Reminds me of when SWMBO comes home with a carload (and it's a station wagon too) of bags and boxes after shopping at the big sale, and says something like "I could have saved another two hundered dollars if I hadn't tun out of money..."

[Puckdropper]

[e-mail] () wrote in news:G_SdnasB5_JqOLDYnZ2dnUVZ [e-mail]:

*snip*

I think every married couple has stories like this. :-) My mom used to tell my dad how much she saved, and he'd usually say, "Yeah, but how much did you spend?"

Puckdropper

[Richard Clements]

comparison, wild trees are almost all pine or willow, fruit land has Orchards but before this all the stuff I've gotten was urban trees

[mac davis]

yep.. the 2 words that married men fear most are "cute" and "sale"

Mac

[mac davis]

If it weren't for my friend Chuck in N.Y., I would still have not turned cherry or maple..

He sends me care packages regularly and what a pleasant education it's been...

Mac

[bf]

Congratulations. that's awesome. Don't worry, eventually the wife will accept she can't park in the garage anymore.

[jo4hn]

Remember, the temporary partition that is used to separate cars from workshop is called a garage door. big toothy grin, jo4hn