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Yesterday I bought some teak from a local seller in Houston. He happened to
have a couple of pieces of cocobolo and I bought one. I'm mesmerized by this
stuff because its so beautiful and HEAVY. I hefted it in the rear of the
van and drove home. Along the way, I had to make a sudden stop due to a
tie-up in the freeway. WHAM! That piece of wood launched and slid all the
way from the rear door and slammed into the right front passenger seat. It
scared the pee-turkey out of me as it darned near took out the front seat.
Next time I buy cocobolo, its going to have its own seatbelt!

Bob

P.S. I have no commercial connection, but wanted to mention to fellow
Houstonites that the teak was purchased at a decent price and I'm pleased
with the transaction. has more available.

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I'm glad I'm not the only one who's been pelted in the head/back/kiester by
stock during a sudden stop. I feel less alone now.

--Jay

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P.S. I have no commercial connection, but wanted to mention to fellow
Houstonites that the teak was purchased at a decent price and I'm pleased
with the transaction. has more available.

Bob,

What part of Houston did you have to go to? I hate having to drive
into town for anything if I can avoid it. :-) I'm in Friendswood.
Took SWMBO to Bush Airport last Monday - an hour there and an hour
back. :-( (And that was with light 5:00am traffic)

Weldon

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"Weldon Wilson" wrote in message
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What part of Houston did you have to go to?

The warehouse is on North 610 between Ella and TC Jester.

Bob

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what was the price for the teak? I'm planning some outdoor projects.
Unlikely I'll go to TX for the lumber, but I am interested in the disparity
in prices from place to place. Around here (Connecticut) most places I've
found have it in the $15/bf range.

Mike

"Bob Davis" wrote in message
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"Weldon Wilson" wrote in message
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What part of Houston did you have to go to?

The warehouse is on North 610 between Ella and TC Jester.

Bob

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The warehouse is on North 610 between Ella and TC Jester.

Bob

Thanks for the info. Now all I have to do is talk myself into driving
all the way up there. :-)

Weldon

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Similar experience. I bought a new BMW X5 - my "truck". I was hauling some
1x home and had a few pieces stacked up on the center console to get more
length inside and minimize what was hanging out the tailgate. Hit the
brakes hard and that top piece of 1x came flying forward, slammed into the
dash and removed the face plate of the dashboard CD player. It rendered the
CD player inoperable. Took it to the dealer for repairs and all they could
say was "how in the hell did this happen?". Remember, your typical Bimmer
owner doesn't haul stuff home from the borg. Don't ask what a new CD player
cost.

Bob


"Bob Davis" wrote in message
hlink.net...
Yesterday I bought some teak from a local seller in Houston. He happened
to
have a couple of pieces of cocobolo and I bought one. I'm mesmerized by
this
stuff because its so beautiful and HEAVY. I hefted it in the rear of the
van and drove home. Along the way, I had to make a sudden stop due to a
tie-up in the freeway. WHAM! That piece of wood launched and slid all the
way from the rear door and slammed into the right front passenger seat. It
scared the pee-turkey out of me as it darned near took out the front seat.
Next time I buy cocobolo, its going to have its own seatbelt!

Bob

P.S. I have no commercial connection, but wanted to mention to fellow
Houstonites that the teak was purchased at a decent price and I'm pleased
with the transaction. has more available.

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On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 22:09:50 -0600, "bob"
wrote:

Similar experience. I bought a new BMW X5, your typical Bimmer
owner doesn't haul stuff home from the borg.

Bob


This is why I'm having trouble picking out a nicer car than my Taurus.
So far I haven't found one with a folding backseat to let me slip some
planks in through the trunk and have maybe only 2 or so feet sticking
out the back, if any.

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I had a Taurus company car. Man the boss would have hit the roof had he
seen me one of the many times hauling 8 ft lumber home in it.

Steve P.


"Lazarus Long" wrote in message
...
On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 22:09:50 -0600, "bob"
wrote:

Similar experience. I bought a new BMW X5, your typical Bimmer
owner doesn't haul stuff home from the borg.

Bob


This is why I'm having trouble picking out a nicer car than my Taurus.
So far I haven't found one with a folding backseat to let me slip some
planks in through the trunk and have maybe only 2 or so feet sticking
out the back, if any.

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Lazarus Long wrote:
This is why I'm having trouble picking out a nicer car than my Taurus.
So far I haven't found one with a folding backseat to let me slip some
planks in through the trunk and have maybe only 2 or so feet sticking
out the back, if any.

F-150 XLT Supercrew comes to mind. Although I doubt you'd need to
put the wood down the center...
Dave in Fairfax
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"Jay Windley" wrote in
:

I'm glad I'm not the only one who's been pelted in the
head/back/kiester by stock during a sudden stop. I feel less alone
now.

--Jay


When I buy heavy, pointy materials (lumber, rebar, metal stock, etc.) and I
put it in my pickup, I make sure the forward ends are on the passenger side
of the truck. That way, if I run into ..., uh, if *someone else* runs into
me head-on, I won't get impaled. Saw a movie once where that happened and
the image has stuck with me.

--
John Snow
"If I knew what I was doing, I wouldn't be here"

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dave in fairfax wrote:

This is why I'm having trouble picking out a nicer car than my Taurus.
So far I haven't found one with a folding backseat to let me slip some
planks in through the trunk and have maybe only 2 or so feet sticking
out the back, if any.

F-150 XLT Supercrew comes to mind. Although I doubt you'd need to
put the wood down the center...


One of these days I want one of those pickups based on a Freightliner FLD70
medium duty chuck chassis. :)

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On 19 Mar 2004 22:59:45 GMT, Hitch wrote:

"Jay Windley" wrote in
:

I'm glad I'm not the only one who's been pelted in the
head/back/kiester by stock during a sudden stop. I feel less alone
now.

--Jay


When I buy heavy, pointy materials (lumber, rebar, metal stock, etc.) and I
put it in my pickup, I make sure the forward ends are on the passenger side
of the truck. That way, if I run into ..., uh, if *someone else* runs into
me head-on, I won't get impaled. Saw a movie once where that happened and
the image has stuck with me.

Saw a car wreck where that happened - that is an image that will
*really* stick with you. Too often we forget that the things we are
carrying in our trucks, cars, vans or whatever can become instant
battering rams or spears in the event of an accident. I even read of
one roll-over where a baby in a car seat received serious head
injuries from a flying cell-phone. Gives me pause for thought when I
consider the 80+ pound tool-box in the back of my van at times. It is
not just for aesthetics that UPS puts that grille-work behind the
driver!

Tim Douglass

http://www.DouglassClan.com

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$4/bf. for 4/4. He has it ranging in 4" to 8" widths and 8' to 10' lengths
quarter sawn.

Bob


"Mike in Mystic" wrote in message
. com...
what was the price for the teak? I'm planning some outdoor projects.
Unlikely I'll go to TX for the lumber, but I am interested in the
disparity
in prices from place to place. Around here (Connecticut) most places I've
found have it in the $15/bf range.

Mike

"Bob Davis" wrote in message
hlink.net...

"Weldon Wilson" wrote in message
om...

What part of Houston did you have to go to?

The warehouse is on North 610 between Ella and TC Jester.

Bob

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Thanks for the info, Bob.

Mike


"Bob Davis" wrote in message
hlink.net...
$4/bf. for 4/4. He has it ranging in 4" to 8" widths and 8' to 10' lengths
quarter sawn.

Bob


"Mike in Mystic" wrote in message
. com...
what was the price for the teak? I'm planning some outdoor projects.
Unlikely I'll go to TX for the lumber, but I am interested in the
disparity
in prices from place to place. Around here (Connecticut) most places
I've
found have it in the $15/bf range.

Mike

"Bob Davis" wrote in message
hlink.net...

"Weldon Wilson" wrote in message
om...

What part of Houston did you have to go to?

The warehouse is on North 610 between Ella and TC Jester.

Bob

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Tim Douglass wrote in :

seat received serious head
injuries from a flying cell-phone. Gives me pause for thought when I
consider the 80+ pound tool-box in the back of my van at times. It is
not just for aesthetics that UPS puts that grille-work behind the
driver!

I know two brothers who rolled their pickup coming back home after
picking up a crankshaft from the machine shop for a small block Chevy they
were rebuilding. Where was the crankshaft??...You guessed it.
Lying in the front passenger floor board under Carl's feet. He's lucky
he only got his jaw broken in three places and a concussion. He sure did
talk funny for a while. ;-)

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dave in fairfax writes:

Lazarus Long wrote:
This is why I'm having trouble picking out a nicer car than my Taurus.
So far I haven't found one with a folding backseat to let me slip some
planks in through the trunk and have maybe only 2 or so feet sticking
out the back, if any.

F-150 XLT Supercrew comes to mind. Although I doubt you'd need to
put the wood down the center...

For serious wood hauling, you need a 8 foot bed. The Supercrew is only
5.5 feet. You'll need to upgrade to a F-250 if you want an 8 foot bed and
a crew cab.

With an 8 foot bed, you can put plywood in and close the tailgate. I have
seen someone with a Dodge Dakota lose a whole load of plywood out the back
end.

Brian Elfert

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Thanks for the kind words Bob, and very glad you did not get hurt. I
know some even heavier woods if you are interested :-)

BTW, try filling up the bath and floating the cocobolo :-)

Jeremy

Bob Davis wrote:

Yesterday I bought some teak from a local seller in Houston. He happened to
have a couple of pieces of cocobolo and I bought one. I'm mesmerized by this
stuff because its so beautiful and HEAVY. I hefted it in the rear of the
van and drove home. Along the way, I had to make a sudden stop due to a
tie-up in the freeway. WHAM! That piece of wood launched and slid all the
way from the rear door and slammed into the right front passenger seat. It
scared the pee-turkey out of me as it darned near took out the front seat.
Next time I buy cocobolo, its going to have its own seatbelt!

Bob

P.S. I have no commercial connection, but wanted to mention to fellow
Houstonites that the teak was purchased at a decent price and I'm pleased
with the transaction. has more available.

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On 22 Mar 2004 15:37:41 GMT, Brian Elfert brought
forth from the murky depths:

For serious wood hauling, you need a 8 foot bed. The Supercrew is only

For serious wood hauling, you need a trailer.


5.5 feet. You'll need to upgrade to a F-250 if you want an 8 foot bed and
a crew cab.

And those have the turning radius of the QEII.
I love my shortbed/std cab F-150 which turns in a
tighter radius than my sister's old 1973 BLMC MGB-GT.
(Say that 3 times really fast.)


With an 8 foot bed, you can put plywood in and close the tailgate. I have
seen someone with a Dodge Dakota lose a whole load of plywood out the back
end.

With the shortbed model, you stack it so it can't slide out:
with the tailgate UP.


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Brian Elfert wrote:
For serious wood hauling, you need a 8 foot bed. The Supercrew is only
5.5 feet. You'll need to upgrade to a F-250 if you want an 8 foot bed and
a crew cab.
With an 8 foot bed, you can put plywood in and close the tailgate. I have
seen someone with a Dodge Dakota lose a whole load of plywood out the back
end.

Jeez, I've hauled stuff with my daughter's Ranger and my F-150
without any problems in either truck. The Op was hauling in a
compact car. I figure ANY truck is better than that. If you want
to stay in the same price range you rule out F-250s real fast. 8
ft beds are nice but hardly necessary, don't get me started about
MOPAR. G,D & R

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Larry Jaques wrote:

For serious wood hauling, you need a 8 foot bed. The Supercrew is only

For serious wood hauling, you need a trailer.

For serious wood hauling, you need a 53' trailer.

And those have the turning radius of the QEII.
I love my shortbed/std cab F-150 which turns in a
tighter radius than my sister's old 1973 BLMC MGB-GT.
(Say that 3 times really fast.)

I can turn my truck around on just one football field.

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"dave in fairfax" wrote in message
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without any problems in either truck. The Op was hauling in a
compact car. I figure ANY truck is better than that.

No, the OP (me) was hauling in a mini-van. It will hold 4x8 sheet stock with
doors closed, if you load it at the correct angle. I'd never, ever submit
it to the equal of any truck. Its a mom-mobile. But its paid for and
hardly costs anything to keep going. I will cry the day that it dies and I
have to replace it with new car payments for anything.

Bob

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Bob Davis wrote:

without any problems in either truck. The Op was hauling in a
compact car. I figure ANY truck is better than that.

No, the OP (me) was hauling in a mini-van. It will hold 4x8 sheet stock
with
doors closed, if you load it at the correct angle. I'd never, ever submit
it to the equal of any truck. Its a mom-mobile. But its paid for and

I wish more mini-van drivers would figure out they're behind the wheel of a
mom-mobile. I don't know how many times I've gotten stuck behind one of
those things going up a mountain. (It happens frequently, because I live
at the top of a mountain. I'm coming home empty in my tractor-trailer, and
I have to drop three gears to stay behind some stupid mini-van that can't
make it up the hill, but who insists on staying in the middle lane anyway.)

I drive Dad's mini-van on occasion, so I *know* how anemic they are. That
thing has the saddest, most pathetic excuse for a V6 I have ever seen. I
could get double or triple horsepower by applying a match to the outflow
end of a flatulent chipmunk and strapping it to the roof.

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Silvan wrote:
I drive Dad's mini-van on occasion, so I *know* how anemic they are. That
thing has the saddest, most pathetic excuse for a V6 I have ever seen. I
could get double or triple horsepower by applying a match to the outflow
end of a flatulent chipmunk and strapping it to the roof.

Thanks for that picture. Rockey the JATO unit.
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C130 background Dave?

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Greg Millen wrote:

C130 background Dave?

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Only indirectly. Navy, but lots of friends in MAC and SAC, Guam's
a small island.
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Not a lot of us remember the JATO rockets nowadays. I'm an ex C130
loadmaster - RAAF. Never used them myself but am well aware of them.

There's a rather amusing story in the Darwin awards about a guy welding one
into a Chevy Impala (Impaler).

http://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin1995-04.html

--
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"Dave in Fairfax" wrote in message ...
Only indirectly. Navy, but lots of friends in MAC and SAC, Guam's
a small island.
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