Rail straightening...

[Rounder]

The timber economy around here/Idaho is pretty ####ty right now. A lot of mill closures, minimal access to wood. It's to the point that I don't plan on being around here to much longer, to damn depressing. I caught the tail end of things, but it's pretty much a mechanized world these days around here. - Sam

 

[Hddnis]

The timber economy around here/Idaho is pretty ####ty right now. A lot of mill closures, minimal access to wood. It's to the point that I don't plan on being around here to much longer, to damn depressing. I caught the tail end of things, but it's pretty much a mechanized world these days around here. - Sam

I'm mostly commenting on your sig line. At Home Depot a couple of weeks ago I loaded up a bucket with packages of shims. I started reading the label and see that they are made in china. I was really PO'd. Of all the stupid things! We ship the logs over there and they ship back shims. How can that possibly work? Shipping is not free you know. I know they have other types of shims, the short ones, so I went looking for them. They were made in Washington, so I bought those instead.


Now I'm thinking about starting a shim mill. I'm sure I could hire a few out of work guys to run it for me. I wouldn't really care if it made me much money, as long as they had a job and I never saw another shim made in china.



Mr. HE

 

[Rounder]

I'm mostly commenting on your sig line. At Home Depot a couple of weeks ago I loaded up a bucket with packages of shims. I started reading the label and see that they are made in china. I was really PO'd. Of all the stupid things! We ship the logs over there and they ship back shims. How can that possibly work? Shipping is not free you know. I know they have other types of shims, the short ones, so I went looking for them. They were made in Washington, so I bought those instead.


Now I'm thinking about starting a shim mill. I'm sure I could hire a few out of work guys to run it for me. I wouldn't really care if it made me much money, as long as they had a job and I never saw another shim made in china.



Mr. HE

Lol. yes my signature is pretty much a joke at this point. I shouldn't be laughing about it though. As you pointed out, we live in a strange world of international trade - Sam