EPISODE ONE: I'm thumbing the Sunday classifieds a coupla weeks ago looking
under "Building Materials" when this ad jumps out:

"Rough sawn Oak, Cherry, Walnut lumber, air-dried 20 years. $2/board foot.
292-XXXX. "

Oook! So's I get on the phone and call the advertiser, make arrangements to
meet him down at his acreage south of town (I live in Omaha). I get there
the next AM, and meet this old-timer, who as it turns out used to be in the
tree-removal business, and came by this stuff that way. Then he leads me
out to a shed, wherein lies...oh my.

Walnut, beautiful walnut, anywhere from 3/4-12/4 (mostly 4/4 and 8/4),
mostly 8-10" wide, a couple 12+. White oak (burr oak, native around here) -
less in quantity than the walnut, almost all 5/4 and 6/4 and 6-8" wide. And
the cherry...not a ton left by the time I got there, but what there was was
lovely, wide stuff; one board is 14.5" wide and 80" long. All the boards
had a price written on the end, so keeping track was easy. Good thing, too.

I picked boards out until I ran out of space to haul them, and left a few
behind to go pick up the next day. I wrote the guy a check for $200. I
haven't even gotten around to figuring out how much I actually have all
told, but I did total up the cherry - it came to 23.25BF, for which I paid
$44, or $1.89/BF. I planed some up yesterday, and it's magnificent. I'll
have to get back to you with the rest, but I'm thinking I probably wound up
paying rather less than $2/BF when all's said and done.

EPISODE TWO: Then, this week's classifieds had this ad:

In article 7ze9e.1489$MY5.140@okepread03, "Jason Quick" wrote:

EPISODE TWO: Then, this week's classifieds had this ad:


Well? Don't keep us in suspense....

--
Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

Nobody ever left footprints in the sands of time by sitting on his butt.
And who wants to leave buttprints in the sands of time?

"Doug Miller" wrote in message
...
In article 7ze9e.1489$MY5.140@okepread03, "Jason Quick"
wrote:

EPISODE TWO: Then, this week's classifieds had this ad:


Well? Don't keep us in suspense....

Sorry...hit "post" too soon...decided to put it in a second missive. See
that one. : )

Jason

almost as good a deal as when I found a half sheet of melamine for 5
bucks.


-Dan V.


On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 21:20:28 GMT, (Doug Miller)
wrote:

In article 7ze9e.1489$MY5.140@okepread03, "Jason Quick" wrote:

EPISODE TWO: Then, this week's classifieds had this ad:


Well? Don't keep us in suspense....