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To: Zakeet; Slings and Arrows

A lot of raw holes around there? :-P

61 posted on 12/15/2006 2:58:41 PM PST by Irish_Thatcherite (A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!|What if I lecture Americans about America?)

To: Irish_Thatcherite

I never took a survey.

62 posted on 12/15/2006 3:01:05 PM PST by Slings and Arrows ("[Neturei Karta] are the Westboro Baptist Church of Judaism." --Alouette)

To: Slings and Arrows

How is that done? With a dipstick? :-P

63 posted on 12/15/2006 3:13:17 PM PST by Irish_Thatcherite (A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!|What if I lecture Americans about America?)

To: Oberon; Beagle8U

This was NY/PA. They harvested what grew on their land; maple, oak, cherry,... Tree plantations make sense especially if it's fast growing. But that still works against the envirowhackos arguments. I can't see anyone cutting old growth forests for paper.

64 posted on 12/15/2006 6:00:52 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)

I've heard that the old growth wood is very strong and is what made such high quality furniture of old days. Apparently, the growth was so slow, it produced very fine grained, very hard wood, the likes of which we don't see much of these days.

65 posted on 12/15/2006 6:03:14 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)

> I've heard that the old growth wood is very strong... the likes of which we don't see much of these days.

The harvesting of ancient wood has become a very lucrative niche business selling to woodworkers. American companys range from underwater salvagers who raise hardwood logs submerged for a century or more to http://www.ancientcypress.com/ From their website - "Ancient Cypress, LLC has begun to unearth an ancient cypress forest from the coastal plains of South Carolina. The unearthed logs, carbon dated from 25,000 to 45,000 years old, have been recovered from the sand quarries near the Lynches and Pee Dee Rivers. These cypress logs are up to eight feet in diameter and one hundred feet long..."

http://www.ancientwood.com/ offers 50,000 year Kauri wood from New Zealand. Check out the picture of an ancient tree stump being excavated!.
http://www.ancientwood.com/images/photo_removing_ancient_kaur.gif

Oh, I still carry a cloth handkerchief. Never go anywhere without your towel, and what is a pocket handkerchief if not a real small towel?.

66 posted on 12/15/2006 9:55:24 PM PST by ADemocratNoMore (Jeepers, Freepers, where'd 'ya get those sleepers?. Pj people, exposing old media's lies.)

To: ADemocratNoMore

67 posted on 12/15/2006 9:59:57 PM PST by ADemocratNoMore (Jeepers, Freepers, where'd 'ya get those sleepers?. Pj people, exposing old media's lies.)

To: ADemocratNoMore

One more try and if it dons't show up this time it's off to HTML bootcamp...

68 posted on 12/15/2006 10:10:39 PM PST by ADemocratNoMore (Jeepers, Freepers, where'd 'ya get those sleepers?. Pj people, exposing old media's lies.)

To: ADemocratNoMore

Betcha furniture made from that costs more money than I'll ever have. Porbably some politician will have another piece of furniture carved from a single piece of it.

Oh, I still carry a cloth handkerchief. Never go anywhere without your towel, and what is a pocket handkerchief if not a real small towel?.

Does a pocketful of kleenex count?

69 posted on 12/16/2006 5:19:14 AM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)

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