"Edward Hennessey" wrote
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Take note that after surfing about 10 of the links down the line from the
above site, I came on a detected virus. AVG caught it, but I hope there
were no others that got by.
-- Jim in NC
"FrozenNorth" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> Wood & Tools.
> It is not off topic, nothing to do with baptists or windows mail.
> Discuss :-)
> I'm not Luigi, just another Canuck.
You're off topic. You insisted on talking about wood and now you've changed
the topic to just being another Canuck.
On Apr 22, 8:51=A0pm, Larry Jaques <[email protected]>
wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 10:33:00 -0700 (PDT), Luigi Zanasi
>
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >On Apr 22, 7:34=A0am, basilisk <[email protected]> wrote:
> >Good point. I hadn't thought of that. Except I think most of it is not
> >really green in that the only trees that can be harvested in Costa
> >Rica are standing dead or fallen down (except for the plantation stuff
> >Lew was talking about. I don't know why they don't plant mahogany
> >instead of teak ;-) ).
>
> >Some of the naturally "fallen" trees somehow get chainsaw marks at the
> >stump end. But that was obviously only to even out the end, right?
>
> That's the ticket!
>
> >I did look up the regs for importing into Canada. We don't need to
> >fumigate tropical species, it just can't have bark on it.
>
> That's probably because Canuckistan's temperate, banana belt climate
> ensures that bugs can't survive winters.
>
Gzaktly! We have a great soil sterilizer in our greenhouse: it`s
called 40 below. One year we had a serious infestation of white flies
from some imported plants bought at Crappy Tire. Next year, nada!
Luigi
Larry Jaques wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 23:22:46 -0400, "Mike Marlow"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> FrozenNorth wrote:
>>> Wood & Tools.
>>>
>>> It is not off topic, nothing to do with baptists or windows mail.
>>>
>>> Discuss :-)
>>
>> Damn Luigi - I thought you were starting a sex talk thread.
>>
>> Will one of you guys pick this thing up and take it to the depths
>> that it deserves...
>
> Well, I took it shallowly. Good enough?
Larry - you disappoint me...
--
-Mike-
[email protected]
FrozenNorth wrote:
> Wood & Tools.
>
> It is not off topic, nothing to do with baptists or windows mail.
>
> Discuss :-)
Damn Luigi - I thought you were starting a sex talk thread.
Will one of you guys pick this thing up and take it to the depths that it
deserves...
--
-Mike-
[email protected]
On Apr 21, 10:05=A0pm, "Lew Hodgett" <[email protected]> wrote:
> "Luigi Zanasi" wrote:
> > I saw some incredible stuff in Costa Rica and I am sorely tempted to
>
> ship back a container load to Canada.
> -------------------------------
> When you mention Costa Rica and "wood" in the same sentence, I
> immediately think of "Plantation Teak".
>
> Keeps the boat builders supplied even if it is close to $20/BF.
>
> Lew
I was quoted a price of 1,500 colones per pulgada by a sawmill for any
species, which amounts to a little less than $3.00 a board-foot. Run
of the mill, of course. I wasn't really interested in teak, which is
not a native species. Buyt there might be a way of making money there.
Luigi
On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 19:59:50 -0700 (PDT), Luigi Zanasi
<[email protected]> wrote:
>On Apr 22, 5:21Â pm, Larry Jaques <[email protected]>
>wrote:
>> On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 21:17:36 -0700 (PDT), Luigi Zanasi
>>
>> >How much milled and stickered wood would fit in a container?
>>
>> A metric shitload, WeeGee.
>>
>> Let's see, 8'x8'x20' = 47.4 y3. Â Drop a couple for stickering and ya
>> got about 45 yd3 or 35 m3.
>>
>> Double that for the 40-footers.
>>
>> OK, actual sizes and capacities are a bit under that. I think wet wood
>> would max the container before it was full.
>>
>> STANDARD CONTAINERS: 20' Â Â Â Â
>> inside length  5.900m
>> inside width  2.350m
>> inside height  2.393m
>> capacity 33.2CBM
>> tare weight  2,230Kg
>> maxi cargo 21,770Kg
>
>Yabbut how many Costa Rican pulgadas is that?
I don't care what you drink down there, buddy. Oops, I was thinking
"pulque". Lo siento.
>http://www.adamngoldman.com/measuringlu.htm
Various varras, verdad?
--
Accept the pain, cherish the joys, resolve the regrets;
then can come the best of benedictions -
'If I had my life to live over, I'd do it all the same.'
-- Joan McIntosh
On Apr 22, 7:34=A0am, basilisk <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 21:17:36 -0700 (PDT), Luigi Zanasi wrote:
> > On Apr 21, 7:54 pm, FrozenNorth <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >> Wood & Tools.
>
> >> It is not off topic, nothing to do with baptists or windows mail.
>
> >> Discuss :-)
> >> --
> >> Froz...
>
> > I saw some incredible stuff in Costa Rica and I am sorely tempted to
> > ship back a container load to Canada. I bought a book on woods of
> > Costa Rica with ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY different species of wood in a
> > country smaller than =A0Nova Scotia. And the author missed at least one
> > that I know of. A sculptor & turner by the name of Dany at LaFortuna
> > uses mainly a wood he calls "Lorito" (Cojoba arborea) which is not in
> > the book. Really nice stuff.
>
> > How much milled and stickered wood would fit in a container?
>
> > Luigi
>
> green wood, even on sticks, put in a container will grow mold at a
> prodigious rate,
> most likely destroying any value it had. It would need to be air dried
> and/or treated with a fungicide. Plus heated treated or fumigated for
> insects to allow importation. Could still be done at a fair profit,
> I expect.
Good point. I hadn't thought of that. Except I think most of it is not
really green in that the only trees that can be harvested in Costa
Rica are standing dead or fallen down (except for the plantation stuff
Lew was talking about. I don't know why they don't plant mahogany
instead of teak ;-) ).
Some of the naturally "fallen" trees somehow get chainsaw marks at the
stump end. But that was obviously only to even out the end, right?
I did look up the regs for importing into Canada. We don't need to
fumigate tropical species, it just can't have bark on it.
Luigi
"FrozenNorth" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Wood & Tools.
>
> It is not off topic, nothing to do with baptists or windows mail.
>
> Discuss :-)
> --
> Froz...
>
>
> The system will be down for 10 days for preventive maintenance.
FN:
It may only involve wood in some construction but yeti,
methinks this is up your alley, even if and especially
if snowbound:
http://weburbanist.com/2010/02/11/in-soviet-russia-the-snow-makes-for-a-hot-ride/
Regards,
Edward Hennessey
"Luigi Zanasi" wrote:
> I saw some incredible stuff in Costa Rica and I am sorely tempted to
ship back a container load to Canada.
-------------------------------
When you mention Costa Rica and "wood" in the same sentence, I
immediately think of "Plantation Teak".
Keeps the boat builders supplied even if it is close to $20/BF.
Lew
FrozenNorth <[email protected]> wrote in news:ioqqkv$h4n$1
@dont-email.me:
> Wood & Tools.
>
> It is not off topic, nothing to do with baptists or windows mail.
>
> Discuss :-)
The planer's really changed the way I look at things. I took an old ugly
looking piece of wood with paint on one side and started planing it.
Little by little the grain emerged. The two pieces I cut out of it will be
the end frames for my latest project, a model railroad throttle holder
(think big remote control holder.)
My planer doesn't always want to accept the wood I'm feeding it. It's set
for a shallow cut, but the wood just rubs up against the feed rollers. Any
suggestions?
Puckdropper
"Lew Hodgett" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> "Luigi Zanasi" wrote:
>> I saw some incredible stuff in Costa Rica and I am sorely tempted to
> ship back a container load to Canada.
> -------------------------------
> When you mention Costa Rica and "wood" in the same sentence, I immediately
> think of "Plantation Teak".
>
> Keeps the boat builders supplied even if it is close to $20/BF.
>
OK, we are talking about tropical plantation wood??
I had a job recently where I had to buy some balsa, cut it to size (easy to
do) and fit it into some small boxes. They asked me to look into how
practical it would be to do this on a large scale. It turns out that balsa,
which is grown rapidly on plantations, has tripled in price in the last year
or so. The reason?? Windmills!!
Yep, that's right. Balsa will grow easily to 90 feet long in just a few
years. (I forget how many, but it doesn't take that long) It can then be
cut into long timbers that are straight and lightweight. They can be
transported in third world countries and be put up with minimal machinery
and skills. The windmills are used both for electricity and pumping water.
The model makers are upset. They are paying a lot more for balsa and the
supply is less. There are different grades of balsa. The firmer balsa is
two to three times the cost of the regular grade. There are a lot of art
and hobby applications for balsa. I talked to a model maker. he makes
everything from building models to new car models, parts of various kinds,
etc. He used to cut everything out by hand. He now just sends in a file and
his balsa wood distributor cuts all the parts out on their laser. As soft
as balsa is, almost any laser cutting job would almost instant.
I never worked with balsa before. It is an interesting wood. Not at all
durable. Anyway, when the folks I was working with found out the costs and
availability issues, they immediately began looking for other materials.
Many balsa distributors are out of many sizes and some can not get in any
new stock. People are buying up the balsa for windmill lumber.
How does one build a windmill from balsa? That would be an interesting
project. I think you would have to be careful with the fasteners as to not
damage the wood. Balsa may be a renewable resource. But there is only so
much to go around. If this trend continues, I suppose they will plant more
balsa trees. But I think the price will never go back down again.
"Puckdropper" wrote:
> The planer's really changed the way I look at things. I took an old
> ugly
> looking piece of wood with paint on one side and started planing it.
> Little by little the grain emerged. The two pieces I cut out of it
> will be
> the end frames for my latest project, a model railroad throttle
> holder
> (think big remote control holder.)
>
> My planer doesn't always want to accept the wood I'm feeding it.
> It's set
> for a shallow cut, but the wood just rubs up against the feed
> rollers. Any
> suggestions?
--------------------------------
If you want to extend the life of your planer blades, don't run
painted surfaces thru them.
Removing paint is a good task for a belt sander with 24 grit belts.
BTDT.
Sounds like your boards might be cupped.
Make sure you start boards cup side (concave) down to start the
process.
BTW, 1/32"/pass works for me.
Lew
> Puckdropper
On 4/21/2011 8:54 PM, FrozenNorth wrote:
> Wood & Tools.
>
> It is not off topic, nothing to do with baptists or windows mail.
>
> Discuss :-)
A young man lost an eye in an accident and was fitted with a prosthetic
replacement made of lacquered maple. This left him feeling very
self-conscious, and he stopped going out. A friend finally convinced
him to go to a dance, but he stood alone against a wall, afraid to make
a move.
The poor soul looked around and say a young lady sitting alone. No one
was asking her to dance because she too was handicapped, having lost a
leg and been fitted with a prosthetic. He thought, "maybe she'll dance
with me." Screwing up his courage, he approached and asked if she'd
like to dance.
The young lady's face lit up, and she exclaimed, "Would I! Would I!"
So he pointed back and answered, "Peg leg! Peg leg!"
"Lee Michaels" wrote:
> OK, we are talking about tropical plantation wood??
>
> I had a job recently where I had to buy some balsa, cut it to size
> (easy to do) and fit it into some small boxes. They asked me to
> look into how practical it would be to do this on a large scale. It
> turns out that balsa, which is grown rapidly on plantations, has
> tripled in price in the last year or so. The reason?? Windmills!!
>
> Yep, that's right. Balsa will grow easily to 90 feet long in just a
> few years. (I forget how many, but it doesn't take that long) It
> can then be cut into long timbers that are straight and lightweight.
> They can be transported in third world countries and be put up with
> minimal machinery and skills. The windmills are used both for
> electricity and pumping water.
>
> The model makers are upset. They are paying a lot more for balsa and
> the supply is less. There are different grades of balsa. The
> firmer balsa is two to three times the cost of the regular grade.
> There are a lot of art and hobby applications for balsa. I talked
> to a model maker. he makes everything from building models to new
> car models, parts of various kinds, etc. He used to cut everything
> out by hand. He now just sends in a file and his balsa wood
> distributor cuts all the parts out on their laser. As soft as balsa
> is, almost any laser cutting job would almost instant.
>
> I never worked with balsa before. It is an interesting wood. Not at
> all durable. Anyway, when the folks I was working with found out
> the costs and availability issues, they immediately began looking
> for other materials. Many balsa distributors are out of many sizes
> and some can not get in any new stock. People are buying up the
> balsa for windmill lumber.
>
> How does one build a windmill from balsa? That would be an
> interesting project. I think you would have to be careful with the
> fasteners as to not damage the wood. Balsa may be a renewable
> resource. But there is only so much to go around. If this trend
> continues, I suppose they will plant more balsa trees. But I think
> the price will never go back down again.
--------------------------------------
Check out Baltek, a distributor or core materials used to produce
laminated sandwich core lay-ups.
These days, a lot of balsa core is being used with carbon fiber
prepregs to produce wind mill blades.
The balsa core is configured in the end grain position which makes it
very strong in compression.
Typical core thicknesses are about 1" +/-.
Lew
"Luigi Zanasi" wrote:
> I wasn't really interested in teak, which is
not a native species. Buyt there might be a way of making money there.
--------------------------------
They have been growing plantation teak in Costa Rica since at least
the early 1970's.
Think there was some Rockefeller money involved to get started as a
way of off setting the closure of Thai teak to harvesting.
Lew
Luigi Zanasi <[email protected]> wrote in news:1b0fd79b-6fa8-48b7-90c8-
[email protected]:
> Gzaktly! We have a great soil sterilizer in our greenhouse: it`s
> called 40 below. One year we had a serious infestation of white flies
> from some imported plants bought at Crappy Tire. Next year, nada!
>
> Luigi
Fehrenheight or Celcius? ;-)
I like cold winters. Better for the ice rink, and my heater can handle
keeping the garshop a toasty 68F.
If you have a boiler in your garshop and don't have a CO detector, get one.
Mine went off the other day, and the boiler had given me only minor
indications something was amiss. (The flame looked somewhat yellow when I
first lit it in fall.)
Puckdropper
On Apr 21, 7:54=A0pm, FrozenNorth <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Wood & Tools.
>
> It is not off topic, nothing to do with baptists or windows mail.
>
> Discuss =A0:-)
> --
> Froz...
I saw some incredible stuff in Costa Rica and I am sorely tempted to
ship back a container load to Canada. I bought a book on woods of
Costa Rica with ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY different species of wood in a
country smaller than Nova Scotia. And the author missed at least one
that I know of. A sculptor & turner by the name of Dany at LaFortuna
uses mainly a wood he calls "Lorito" (Cojoba arborea) which is not in
the book. Really nice stuff.
How much milled and stickered wood would fit in a container?
Luigi
On Apr 22, 5:21=A0pm, Larry Jaques <[email protected]>
wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 21:17:36 -0700 (PDT), Luigi Zanasi
>
> >How much milled and stickered wood would fit in a container?
>
> A metric shitload, WeeGee.
>
> Let's see, 8'x8'x20' =3D 47.4 y3. =A0Drop a couple for stickering and ya
> got about 45 yd3 or 35 m3.
>
> Double that for the 40-footers.
>
> OK, actual sizes and capacities are a bit under that. I think wet wood
> would max the container before it was full.
>
> STANDARD CONTAINERS: 20' =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0
> inside length =A05.900m
> inside width =A0 2.350m
> inside height =A02.393m
> capacity 33.2CBM
> tare weight =A02,230Kg
> maxi cargo 21,770Kg
Yabbut how many Costa Rican pulgadas is that?
http://www.adamngoldman.com/measuringlu.htm
:-)
Luigi
FrozenNorth wrote:
> On 4/21/11 11:22 PM, Mike Marlow wrote:
>> FrozenNorth wrote:
>>> Wood& Tools.
>>>
>>> It is not off topic, nothing to do with baptists or windows mail.
>>>
>>> Discuss :-)
>>
>> Damn Luigi - I thought you were starting a sex talk thread.
>>
>> Will one of you guys pick this thing up and take it to the depths
>> that it deserves...
>>
> I'm not Luigi, just another Canuck.
My mistake, and my apoligies.
--
-Mike-
[email protected]
On Apr 22, 12:04=A0pm, "Leon" <lcb11211@swbelldotnet> wrote:
> "FrozenNorth" =A0wrote in messagenews:[email protected]...
>
> Wood & Tools.
>
> It is not off topic, nothing to do with baptists or windows mail.
>
> Discuss =A0:-)
> --
> Froz...
>
> The system will be down for 10 days for preventive maintenance.
>
> You see when there is no actual wood comment or question, like this
> particular message, we talk about other things.
And THAT is why I always drain the fat off fried ground sirloin before
I put in my chilli.
I wood!
------------------
"FrozenNorth" wrote in message news:[email protected]...
Wood & Tools.
It is not off topic, nothing to do with baptists or windows mail.
Discuss :-)
In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] says...
>
> FrozenNorth wrote,on my timestamp of 22/04/2011 12:54 PM:
> > Wood & Tools.
> >
> > It is not off topic, nothing to do with baptists or windows mail.
> >
> > Discuss :-)
>
> Are you suggesting baptists do strange things to windows mail?
> Or vicky-the-versa?
If the Westboro Baptist Church has taken over Microsoft it would explain
much.
> Did some maintenance and pruning in the garden today. Found out
yesterday the
> two trees in the front are Podocarpus Elatus. aka Plum pine, or Illawarra Plum
> Pine.
> And the weird looking seeds - Illawarra plums - are edible and quite nice,
> thanking you very much:
> http://tinyurl.com/3mrmnkl
> Weirdest looking plums: the bulb at the end is hard and has the seed, the other
> one before is the sweet one. One of the traditional aboriginal "bush foods".
In article <[email protected]>,
[email protected] says...
>
> On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 21:17:36 -0700 (PDT), Luigi Zanasi wrote:
>
> > On Apr 21, 7:54 pm, FrozenNorth <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >> Wood & Tools.
> >>
> >> It is not off topic, nothing to do with baptists or windows mail.
> >>
> >> Discuss :-)
> >> --
> >> Froz...
> >
> > I saw some incredible stuff in Costa Rica and I am sorely tempted to
> > ship back a container load to Canada. I bought a book on woods of
> > Costa Rica with ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY different species of wood in a
> > country smaller than Nova Scotia. And the author missed at least one
> > that I know of. A sculptor & turner by the name of Dany at LaFortuna
> > uses mainly a wood he calls "Lorito" (Cojoba arborea) which is not in
> > the book. Really nice stuff.
> >
> > How much milled and stickered wood would fit in a container?
> >
> > Luigi
>
> green wood, even on sticks, put in a container will grow mold at a
> prodigous rate,
> most likely destroying any value it had. It would need to be air dried
> and/or treated with a fungicide. Plus heated treated or fumigated for
> insects to allow importation. Could still be done at a fair profit,
> I expect.
Just make sure that none of it is on an endangered species list and any
of it that needs a certification that is from a managed forest has the
certification.
One of the local yards used to have an amazing array of Argentinian
hardwoods at very reasonable prices but the gummint cracked down on them
and they won't touch the stuff anymore.
Off topic is better than off-kilter.
-------------------
"Upscale" wrote in message
news:%[email protected]...
You're off topic. You insisted on talking about wood and now you've changed
the topic to just being another Canuck.
"FrozenNorth" <[email protected]> wrote in message
I'm not Luigi, just another Canuck.
Puckdropper <puckdropper(at)yahoo(dot)com> wrote in
news:[email protected]:
> Luigi Zanasi <[email protected]> wrote in
> news:1b0fd79b-6fa8-48b7-90c8-
> [email protected]:
>
>> Gzaktly! We have a great soil sterilizer in our greenhouse: it`s
>> called 40 below. One year we had a serious infestation of white flies
>> from some imported plants bought at Crappy Tire. Next year, nada!
>>
>> Luigi
>
> Fehrenheight or Celcius? ;-)
>
> I like cold winters. Better for the ice rink, and my heater can
> handle keeping the garshop a toasty 68F.
>
> If you have a boiler in your garshop and don't have a CO detector, get
> one. Mine went off the other day, and the boiler had given me only
> minor indications something was amiss. (The flame looked somewhat
> yellow when I first lit it in fall.)
>
> Puckdropper
40 below is both F and C at the same time (i.e. the scales cross at -40)
--
Best regards
Han
email address is invalid
"Josepi" <[email protected]> wrote in news:uzGsp.1865$uh5.951
@newsfe02.iad:
> You missed the smiley.
Yep
> It was a joke about the ForeignHeat and Centigrade
--
Best regards
Han
email address is invalid
"Josepi" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> What was that aboot?
> "FrozenNorth" wrote in message You are correct sir, I shall hit myself
> with a to by four.
My feeble attempt at middle of the night humour and his similar response.
"Morgans" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:%[email protected]...
> "Edward Hennessey" wrote
>
> http://weburbanist.com/2010/02/11/in-soviet-russia-the-snow-makes-for-a-hot-ride/
>
> **********************************************************
>
> Take note that after surfing about 10 of the links down the line
> from the above site, I came on a detected virus. AVG caught it, but
> I hope there were no others that got by.
>
> -- Jim in NC
J:
Yup, the stuff is everywhere. I second your hope and
will forward your posting to the site.
Regards,
Edward Hennessey
On Apr 22, 1:33=A0pm, Luigi Zanasi <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Apr 22, 7:34=A0am, basilisk <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 21:17:36 -0700 (PDT), Luigi Zanasi wrote:
> > > On Apr 21, 7:54 pm, FrozenNorth <[email protected]>
> > > wrote:
> > >> Wood & Tools.
>
> > >> It is not off topic, nothing to do with baptists or windows mail.
>
> > >> Discuss :-)
> > >> --
> > >> Froz...
>
> > > I saw some incredible stuff in Costa Rica and I am sorely tempted to
> > > ship back a container load to Canada. I bought a book on woods of
> > > Costa Rica with ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY different species of wood in a
> > > country smaller than =A0Nova Scotia. And the author missed at least o=
ne
> > > that I know of. A sculptor & turner by the name of Dany at LaFortuna
> > > uses mainly a wood he calls "Lorito" (Cojoba arborea) which is not in
> > > the book. Really nice stuff.
>
> > > How much milled and stickered wood would fit in a container?
>
> > > Luigi
>
> > green wood, even on sticks, put in a container will grow mold at a
> > prodigious rate,
> > most likely destroying any value it had. It would need to be air dried
> > and/or treated with a fungicide. Plus heated treated or fumigated for
> > insects to allow importation. Could still be done at a fair profit,
> > I expect.
>
> Good point. I hadn't thought of that. Except I think most of it is not
> really green in that the only trees that can be harvested in Costa
> Rica are standing dead or fallen down (except for the plantation stuff
> Lew was talking about. I don't know why they don't plant mahogany
> instead of teak ;-) ).
>
> Some of the naturally "fallen" trees somehow get chainsaw marks at the
> stump end. But that was obviously only to even out the end, right?
>
> I did look up the regs for importing into Canada. We don't need to
> fumigate tropical species, it just can't have bark on it.
>
> Luigi
A couple of enterprising lads from these parts brought in a couple of
containers of merbau. That was 25 years ago. They did all the
calculations and had decided to rough cut the timbers and stickering
them right inside the containers. That worked well for them, aside
from the fact that nobody wanted the stuff... at least not back then.
I was offered as much as I wanted at 70 centsbd/ft but passed as I had
no idea what to do with it. Kinda teak-ish looking stuff, supposedly
termite resistant. The guys broke even on it and admitted that they
should have investigated the market for such wood a bit more. (These
days, Greenpeace will scuttle your boat if you're taking merbau off
the Philippines)
I guess the lesson in this is that bringing in a load of anything,
makes sense if there's a buyer for it who can be offered a better deal
than what he's getting now. Pretty woods have a certain demand from
the fringe, but they're invariably cheap bastards. A turner wants to
make a pretty bowl out of a 10 dollar hunk of wood, not necessarily a
50 dollar piece. I have had discussions with suppliers of super-cool
flitches to the luthier trades, etc, but they're all poor and want
deals.
Do you really want to bring in a container full of stuff with those
cheapos waiting for you?
Guys like A & M in Cambridge, ON, already have pipelines to the good
stuff and make a reasonable mark-up on it.
There's way more money to be made if you can find a way to get food to
Nunavit.
Instant noodles: $3.99
Processed cheese spread: $29.39
Honey, small jar: $11.19
Cranberry cocktail 1.5litre: $38.99
Breaded chicken, 15 pieces: $77.39
Margarine medium size tub: $27.79
Spaghettini 900 grams: $13.29
Infant formula 700 grams: $40.99
Real numbers.
On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 21:17:36 -0700 (PDT), Luigi Zanasi
<[email protected]> wrote:
>On Apr 21, 7:54Â pm, FrozenNorth <[email protected]>
>wrote:
>> Wood & Tools.
>>
>> It is not off topic, nothing to do with baptists or windows mail.
>>
>> Discuss  :-)
>> --
>> Froz...
>
>I saw some incredible stuff in Costa Rica and I am sorely tempted to
>ship back a container load to Canada. I bought a book on woods of
>Costa Rica with ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY different species of wood in a
>country smaller than Nova Scotia. And the author missed at least one
>that I know of. A sculptor & turner by the name of Dany at LaFortuna
>uses mainly a wood he calls "Lorito" (Cojoba arborea) which is not in
>the book. Really nice stuff.
>
>How much milled and stickered wood would fit in a container?
A metric shitload, WeeGee.
Let's see, 8'x8'x20' = 47.4 y3. Drop a couple for stickering and ya
got about 45 yd3 or 35 m3.
Double that for the 40-footers.
OK, actual sizes and capacities are a bit under that. I think wet wood
would max the container before it was full.
STANDARD CONTAINERS: 20'
inside length 5.900m
inside width 2.350m
inside height 2.393m
capacity 33.2CBM
tare weight 2,230Kg
maxi cargo 21,770Kg
--
Accept the pain, cherish the joys, resolve the regrets;
then can come the best of benedictions -
'If I had my life to live over, I'd do it all the same.'
-- Joan McIntosh
On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 10:33:00 -0700 (PDT), Luigi Zanasi
<[email protected]> wrote:
>On Apr 22, 7:34Â am, basilisk <[email protected]> wrote:
>Good point. I hadn't thought of that. Except I think most of it is not
>really green in that the only trees that can be harvested in Costa
>Rica are standing dead or fallen down (except for the plantation stuff
>Lew was talking about. I don't know why they don't plant mahogany
>instead of teak ;-) ).
>
>Some of the naturally "fallen" trees somehow get chainsaw marks at the
>stump end. But that was obviously only to even out the end, right?
That's the ticket!
>I did look up the regs for importing into Canada. We don't need to
>fumigate tropical species, it just can't have bark on it.
That's probably because Canuckistan's temperate, banana belt climate
ensures that bugs can't survive winters.
--
Accept the pain, cherish the joys, resolve the regrets;
then can come the best of benedictions -
'If I had my life to live over, I'd do it all the same.'
-- Joan McIntosh
What was that aboot?
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"FrozenNorth" wrote in message news:[email protected]...
You are correct sir, I shall hit myself with a to by four.
.
On 4/21/11 11:22 PM, Mike Marlow wrote:
> FrozenNorth wrote:
>> Wood& Tools.
>>
>> It is not off topic, nothing to do with baptists or windows mail.
>>
>> Discuss :-)
>
> Damn Luigi - I thought you were starting a sex talk thread.
>
> Will one of you guys pick this thing up and take it to the depths that it
> deserves...
>
I'm not Luigi, just another Canuck.
--
Froz...
The system will be down for 10 days for preventive maintenance.
FrozenNorth wrote,on my timestamp of 22/04/2011 12:54 PM:
> Wood & Tools.
>
> It is not off topic, nothing to do with baptists or windows mail.
>
> Discuss :-)
Are you suggesting baptists do strange things to windows mail?
Or vicky-the-versa?
Did some maintenance and pruning in the garden today. Found out yesterday the
two trees in the front are Podocarpus Elatus. aka Plum pine, or Illawarra Plum
Pine.
And the weird looking seeds - Illawarra plums - are edible and quite nice,
thanking you very much:
http://tinyurl.com/3mrmnkl
Weirdest looking plums: the bulb at the end is hard and has the seed, the other
one before is the sweet one. One of the traditional aboriginal "bush foods".
On 4/22/11 2:46 AM, Upscale wrote:
> "FrozenNorth"<[email protected]> wrote in message
>> Wood& Tools.
>> It is not off topic, nothing to do with baptists or windows mail.
>> Discuss :-)
>
>> I'm not Luigi, just another Canuck.
>
> You're off topic. You insisted on talking about wood and now you've changed
> the topic to just being another Canuck.
>
>
You are correct sir, I shall hit myself with a to by four.
--
Froz...
The system will be down for 10 days for preventive maintenance.
Josepi wrote:
> I wood!
>
> ------------------
>
> "FrozenNorth" wrote in message news:[email protected]...
>
> Wood & Tools.
>
> It is not off topic, nothing to do with baptists or windows mail.
>
> Discuss :-)
If I could!
On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 00:08:33 -0400, "Mike Marlow"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>Larry Jaques wrote:
>> On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 23:22:46 -0400, "Mike Marlow"
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> FrozenNorth wrote:
>>>> Wood & Tools.
>>>>
>>>> It is not off topic, nothing to do with baptists or windows mail.
>>>>
>>>> Discuss :-)
>>>
>>> Damn Luigi - I thought you were starting a sex talk thread.
>>>
>>> Will one of you guys pick this thing up and take it to the depths
>>> that it deserves...
>>
>> Well, I took it shallowly. Good enough?
>
>Larry - you disappoint me...
Hey, what can I say? I had a headache.
--
Accept the pain, cherish the joys, resolve the regrets;
then can come the best of benedictions -
'If I had my life to live over, I'd do it all the same.'
-- Joan McIntosh
On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 21:17:36 -0700 (PDT), Luigi Zanasi wrote:
> On Apr 21, 7:54 pm, FrozenNorth <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>> Wood & Tools.
>>
>> It is not off topic, nothing to do with baptists or windows mail.
>>
>> Discuss :-)
>> --
>> Froz...
>
> I saw some incredible stuff in Costa Rica and I am sorely tempted to
> ship back a container load to Canada. I bought a book on woods of
> Costa Rica with ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY different species of wood in a
> country smaller than Nova Scotia. And the author missed at least one
> that I know of. A sculptor & turner by the name of Dany at LaFortuna
> uses mainly a wood he calls "Lorito" (Cojoba arborea) which is not in
> the book. Really nice stuff.
>
> How much milled and stickered wood would fit in a container?
>
> Luigi
green wood, even on sticks, put in a container will grow mold at a
prodigous rate,
most likely destroying any value it had. It would need to be air dried
and/or treated with a fungicide. Plus heated treated or fumigated for
insects to allow importation. Could still be done at a fair profit,
I expect.
basilisk
On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 23:31:54 -0400, FrozenNorth
<[email protected]> wrote:
>On 4/21/11 11:22 PM, Mike Marlow wrote:
>> FrozenNorth wrote:
>>> Wood& Tools.
>>>
>>> It is not off topic, nothing to do with baptists or windows mail.
>>>
>>> Discuss :-)
>>
>> Damn Luigi - I thought you were starting a sex talk thread.
>>
>> Will one of you guys pick this thing up and take it to the depths that it
>> deserves...
>>
>I'm not Luigi, just another Canuck.
You hosers all look the same to us.
--
I am an old man, but in many senses a very young man.
And this is what I want you to be, young, young all
your life. -- Pablo Casals
On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 23:22:46 -0400, "Mike Marlow"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>FrozenNorth wrote:
>> Wood & Tools.
>>
>> It is not off topic, nothing to do with baptists or windows mail.
>>
>> Discuss :-)
>
>Damn Luigi - I thought you were starting a sex talk thread.
>
>Will one of you guys pick this thing up and take it to the depths that it
>deserves...
Well, I took it shallowly. Good enough?
--
I am an old man, but in many senses a very young man.
And this is what I want you to be, young, young all
your life. -- Pablo Casals
On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 22:54:23 -0400, FrozenNorth
<[email protected]> wrote:
>Wood & Tools.
>
>It is not off topic, nothing to do with baptists or windows mail.
>
>Discuss :-)
I get a woodie talking about incestuous baptists.
I spent my day digging out an apple tree. DAMN, that stuff is hard.
I ended up going down almost 2' and cutting off roots anywhere from
woodie size to larger than my thigh size. The little HF camo winch was
hard put to take it out, but it finally did so. I'm glad I got it.
Oops, gotta go. Time to take more bupes and rub on some Ben Gay
(actually my sister's line, Nature's Sunshine Tei Fu lotion. Good
stuff, Maynard)
--
I am an old man, but in many senses a very young man.
And this is what I want you to be, young, young all
your life. -- Pablo Casals
"FrozenNorth" wrote in message news:[email protected]...
> Wood & Tools.
> It is not off topic, nothing to do with baptists or windows mail.
> Discuss :-)
I manage to salvage a lot of wood from around the homestead--tearing apart
and rebuilding a closet, knocking down an old fence--stuff like that. But I
just demolished a series of plywood boxes SWMBO had been using as shelves
for her ever-growing collection of potted plants (happily outside) and I
can't think what I'm going to use the salvaged wood for. The screw holes
are rusty or even semi-rotted, there are several thick coats of paint, and
the pieces are at most 18" in size. I might actually have to get rid of
this material because I can't picture using it for everything useful and
that goes against the grain (so to speak).
You missed the smiley. It was a joke about the ForeignHeat and Centigrade
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"Han" wrote in message news:[email protected]...
40 below is both F and C at the same time (i.e. the scales cross at -40)
--------------------
Puckdropper <puckdropper(at)yahoo(dot)com> wrote in
Fehrenheight or Celcius? ;-)
------------------------------------
We have a great soil sterilizer in our greenhouse: it`s
called 40 below. One year we had a serious infestation of white flies
from some imported plants bought at Crappy Tire. Next year, nada
On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 09:34:03 -0500, basilisk <[email protected]>
wrote:
>On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 21:17:36 -0700 (PDT), Luigi Zanasi wrote:
>
>> On Apr 21, 7:54Â pm, FrozenNorth <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>> Wood & Tools.
>>>
>>> It is not off topic, nothing to do with baptists or windows mail.
>>>
>>> Discuss  :-)
>>> --
>>> Froz...
>>
>> I saw some incredible stuff in Costa Rica and I am sorely tempted to
>> ship back a container load to Canada. I bought a book on woods of
>> Costa Rica with ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY different species of wood in a
>> country smaller than Nova Scotia. And the author missed at least one
>> that I know of. A sculptor & turner by the name of Dany at LaFortuna
>> uses mainly a wood he calls "Lorito" (Cojoba arborea) which is not in
>> the book. Really nice stuff.
>>
>> How much milled and stickered wood would fit in a container?
>>
>> Luigi
>
>green wood, even on sticks, put in a container will grow mold at a
>prodigous rate,
What about grand pianos...sprouting? http://goo.gl/QOiLN
--
Accept the pain, cherish the joys, resolve the regrets;
then can come the best of benedictions -
'If I had my life to live over, I'd do it all the same.'
-- Joan McIntosh
"FrozenNorth" wrote in message news:[email protected]...
Wood & Tools.
It is not off topic, nothing to do with baptists or windows mail.
Discuss :-)
--
Froz...
The system will be down for 10 days for preventive maintenance.
You see when there is no actual wood comment or question, like this
particular message, we talk about other things.