dpb on Sun, 8 Jul 2018 16:21:06 -0500 typed in
rec.woodworking the following:
On 7/8/2018 2:56 PM, pyotr filipivich wrote:
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This doesn't look like the sort of rig one could pack into a
"remote" location. (I once was looking at property where directions
concluded with "at end of gravel road, park and prepare for a five
hour hike".)

If you can get a truck in of sufficient size to need a 20" portable
mill, you can manage to trailer this bad body in there, too...back in VA
(where there _were_ trees unlike SW KS ), there were a number of
similar portable mills operating in some pretty difficult-to-get-to
places. Of course, for real commercial stuff you needed something quite
a bit bigger than 20" D, that's pretty small for an oak or the like.

It all depends on what you consider "difficult" and the like.

If you've heard of the Oso Mudslide in 2014, it took out the state
highway - buried it deep under the mud for a long stretch. One of the
responses was local logging companies throwing a road around the slide
in a matter of days. Not pretty, but functional. Logging companies
have been making practical roads for decades. Of course, once the
Feds showed up, they wanted to bar log trucks from said road. They
relented after the logging companies just parked their trucks and
blocked access to what, after all, was the road the companies had
built to handle log trucks.

If you've seen the aerial photos after the slide, you'll notice a
green "thumb" sticking into the middle of the gray. I've friends who
live there. Most of the damage to their property was from the "aid"
people afterwards. "As much as you'd like to, you can't just start
shooting people."

Anyway - to paraphrase a real estate slogan "difficult for what,
difficult for whom?"
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pyotr filipivich
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