Bob wrote:
On Dec 6, 1:52 pm, RW Salnick wrote:

The stumps from these monster trees are still out there in the forests,
remaining after the logging of the ancient first growth trees. Well,
the cedar stumps are anyway.

bob
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Ya, grate places for a picnic if you can get a foot in the notches
they used for the boards they stood on when h a n d sawing them down.
but now even to ceadar stumps are gone on the Oregon coast range. Easy
money to go in and cut for shake bolts. Did that in the early 70s.

Where would you find a big tree like that?????? Well used as 2x4s to
build that 1950s ranch house. What a ****ing shame.

Oh, but trees are renewable resourse.............. well uh yes if YOU
GOT ONE THOUSAND YEARS TO WAIT ! ! ! !!
Bob



I remember as a kid, snaking cedar logs out of Lake Tapps near Bonney
Lake Wa. Cut and split them suckers for cedar fence posts for the
raspberry fields. 5 cents per foot for regular 7 footers and 6 cents for
heavy corner and end posts. Hell, we could get $35 worth of posts in one
truck load!
Now everything is cut at 40 to 60 years old as pecker poles. Only
thing the mills can handle and the wood is pure crap.
Gordon
BTW That lake was man made and a lot of the trees were not cut down
cuz it wasn't worth it. It was a large lake and they couldn't give away
the property around it.
It is now some of the priciest lakefront property anywhere!