On Oct 23, 3:10 am, "Lew Hodgett" wrote:

Sounds like you need to make a deal with your BIL. and have him serve as your freight forwarder.

Freight can't be that big a deal, less than 1,500 miles from Cleveland to San Antonio, probably less than 100 lbs per job.

You know, I had not thought of that. I am not sure why, but we have
discussed all manner of things but direct ship point to point.
Hmmm....

When he went back home this last year to see his people he brought me
back a beautiful piece black walnut (I have never seen anything like
this in person!) that was about 12 inches around and 16 inches long,
cut very close to the root ball so it should good and swirly. It is
for my lathe work, and it should be a beauty. I literally have
nowhere to get a piece of walnut like that here, and it brings real
tears to my eyes to know that he picked it up at the wood dump (WTF is
a wood dump?) with some pieces of cherry.

He kills me when he tells me how much wood that would be great for
woodturning is literally burned in the fireplace every year. As a kid
he regularly burned walnut, any kind of cherry, whatever kind of maple
they had, and oak. The "wild cherry" (never seen one) was explained
to me to be a trash tree, as was silver maple, and some around him
wouldn't even burn it. It went to the tree dump.

As a sidebar, he told me that many times the logs at the dump were so
big, he couldn't move them around, species and type unknown. But you
could take them if you could haul them away. It is no mystery to me
that that the reason so many wonderfully talented and prolific
furniture makers live in the Midwest.

BTW, what part of Ohio?

Worcester, perviously known as the home of Rubbermaid. As a rite of
passage, like so many in the town he even worked there during his high
school summers.

Robert