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Making Flooring, Timbergreen Farm DVDs (DVD

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Making finished wood products makes us better forest managers, loggers, sawyers, and woodworkers. Selling products direct to customers at retail prices earns us 1,000 times what a timber buyer would pay for low value and small diameter trees, 100 times the stumpage value of average timber, and even 10 times what a forest owner is paid for their best trees. Since the wood is all salvaged, most of the retail price earned goes to pay wages and stays in our family and local community. When wood comes out of the kiln, I see the dried lumber and can now judge what is the best value product from every stick of wood. We just unloaded 1,200 BF of dry lumber and began the production process: Most boards were ripped into strips for flooring and a variety of projects. There were live edge flitches from small diameter logs. The sound ones will be planed and cut into cheese boards. There was a series of curved flitches from large logs. These were cross cut into shorter lengths, then straight grain blanks were ripped for flooring and glue ups.

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