gr8scott72
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Well, I did it. Today I put in an order with Bailey's for a Chainsaw Mill. Got the 30" Alaskan. Also ordered a 60" bar for my 394xp for a project I have coming up.
It's actually a pretty cool story.
This guy gets ahold of me because someone told him I have a big chainsaw. (394) This guy wants to make tables out of an old red oak that fell in the Greenwood cemetary in downtown Jackson MS. It's probably about 200 years old, the tree that is, and the cemetary is about the same. He is opening a restaurant also in downtown Jackson MS and is all about the history of Jackson.
Anyways, he had already contacted the city cemetary manager and told him that we would get rid of the wood for him.
Oh, this is a 5' diameter red oak that had 1 piece that was still over 12' long. It blew over in a large storm a while back. Even made the news.
So, the manager is glad that someone actually wants it and said it was ours.
The restaurant owner got me the money to order the chainsaw mill and other equipment that I didn't have. (Gave me a check for $1,000 and I get to keep the equipment when done but have to slab up the wood for him. Someone else will actually be making the tables from the slabs.) I ordered some stuff that next night from Bailey's.
He calls me that next morning and asked, frantically, if I had already ordered anything. I said that I had and asked why he was asking.
He said that the city had hauled off the log.
Apparently, one of the local news stations ran a story about how run down the cemetary had gotten and that it even had dead trees just laying there. Guess that was too much pressure for the cemetary manager and he went ahead and got rid of it. Maybe a call from the mayor?
I called and canceled the order and the restaurant guy said he was going to go look in the dump that next afternoon. He called me back and said that he thought that he had found them. I went and looked at them the next morning and told him that it was indeed the log although now it was only 6' long.
I took 3 of the 5 pieces home that day with a little help from this:
I went back the next day and picked up the other 2 pieces in my dump trailer.
Now today, I reordered the stuff from Bailey's as I'm very sure nobody is going to be moving those logs out of my front yard.
The guy is going to try to get the news crew to come film me milling some of it so they can do a follow up story about how the big historic tree was saved from the city dump.
More to come as I get busy.
It's actually a pretty cool story.
This guy gets ahold of me because someone told him I have a big chainsaw. (394) This guy wants to make tables out of an old red oak that fell in the Greenwood cemetary in downtown Jackson MS. It's probably about 200 years old, the tree that is, and the cemetary is about the same. He is opening a restaurant also in downtown Jackson MS and is all about the history of Jackson.
Anyways, he had already contacted the city cemetary manager and told him that we would get rid of the wood for him.
Oh, this is a 5' diameter red oak that had 1 piece that was still over 12' long. It blew over in a large storm a while back. Even made the news.
So, the manager is glad that someone actually wants it and said it was ours.
The restaurant owner got me the money to order the chainsaw mill and other equipment that I didn't have. (Gave me a check for $1,000 and I get to keep the equipment when done but have to slab up the wood for him. Someone else will actually be making the tables from the slabs.) I ordered some stuff that next night from Bailey's.
He calls me that next morning and asked, frantically, if I had already ordered anything. I said that I had and asked why he was asking.
He said that the city had hauled off the log.
Apparently, one of the local news stations ran a story about how run down the cemetary had gotten and that it even had dead trees just laying there. Guess that was too much pressure for the cemetary manager and he went ahead and got rid of it. Maybe a call from the mayor?
I called and canceled the order and the restaurant guy said he was going to go look in the dump that next afternoon. He called me back and said that he thought that he had found them. I went and looked at them the next morning and told him that it was indeed the log although now it was only 6' long.
I took 3 of the 5 pieces home that day with a little help from this:
I went back the next day and picked up the other 2 pieces in my dump trailer.
Now today, I reordered the stuff from Bailey's as I'm very sure nobody is going to be moving those logs out of my front yard.
The guy is going to try to get the news crew to come film me milling some of it so they can do a follow up story about how the big historic tree was saved from the city dump.
More to come as I get busy.
