On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 21:30:27 GMT, "Nehmo Sergheyev"
wrote:

In Kansas City, Missouri, after ice storms and on other occasions too,
the city opens a yard
http://www.kcmo.org/environ.nsf/web/...2?opendocument where without
cost you can drop off brush (branches, logs, and leaves, but nothing
else). Right now it's open because there was a recent ice storm. If you
want, you can *take away* anything there for free. The city gives away
firewood and converts some of the brush to mulch and gives that away
too.

Naturally, a lot of what makes up the pile are short logs. These are an
assortment, but many are a foot in diameter and about two feet long,
thereabouts. Easily, you can pick up thousands of logs with these
dimensions. Is there any possible use for this wood?

Offhand I can think of a couple of hundred or so uses for wood like
this.

We don't get ice storms around here, but we do get pretty good winds
that tend to take down trees. A lot of people collect the cut-up
pieces for carving, turning, etc. They'd also be nice for cutting into
lumber for jewelry boxes and other small projects. And if you go
through the pile, I'll bet you'll find some stumps (where the whole
tree was uprooted) with really nice figure.

--RC

--RC
"Sometimes history doesn't repeat itself. It just yells
'can't you remember anything I've told you?' and lets
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