I had a local milling job for some Red Oak today. Turned out to only be 120 BF but the guy was tickled pink to have some great looking clear red oak boards.
Its funny how things run through your mind when you have small jobs like this. My first thought was, great, two logs, what a waste of time. That is the devil working on you!
No sooner than I kicked that thought out of my head I knew it would be a great day sawing as its oftne more fun meeting the people and establishing relationships.
This turned out to be a 30 minute cutting job and three hour conversation. Turns out the guy worked with my Uncle when he was a Power Company Supervisor. Lots of stories to tell and garaunteed future business will come my way. As I was cleaning up I asked if he minded if I kept the sawdust for my Biomizer.
He said sure then asked: "Will that thing burn planer shavings?"
Sure will!
"How much room you got in the truck? I have three 60-gal bags full in the garage and you can have it if you want it."
You bet! Turned out I got 4 Biomizer bags of red oak (green) and the three bags of dried planer shavings. I dont know what was more fun, cutting the wood, establishing a relationship with a new customer, or getting more fuel for the Biomizer!
