What did you do today?

[C.J.]

Logging is going good down here. Sometimes my drive to work takes me by a chip mill. Trees go in and train cars of wood chips go out. Paper? OSB? It’s goin somewhere for something.

 

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Somebody told me that one of the reasons wood is so damn expensive is because Trump repealed NAFTA. Haven’t looked into the validity of it yet but whenever I drove down 101 I would see the closed down lumber mills. Or whenever I drove across the Longview bridge I would see all those trees just waiting to be shipped overseas. Might be time to bring some jobs back home.

You got to blame Pelosi too because she said the new trade agreements were better than NAFTA.
There's a ship in town about half a mile from where we're working that's almost loaded with logs. I'm better they might have it totally loaded by tomorrow night or Thursday night.
I tried to look up the name of the ship on a shipping website but this ships information is only available via paid satellite access. That's no problem because tomorrow I can stop by the bay and look at his name and find out where it's from.
There is only one place in the bay that loads logs. There are two locations that load wood chips. one of the trip piles and getting pretty tall so I'm sure she's going to be coming in any day now.
In the 1960s there was 30 to 50 ships per month coming in and out of here. These days it might be four to six per month. We used to be somebody.

 

[C.J.]

I can’t really say one side is better than the other, they both have their down sides. Maybe we can put them all on a cruise ship and sink it. Kinda like turning your letters in in Scrabble. Take your chances and start over cus this hand sucks.

 

[C.J.]

5 month shipping delay! So much for just in time manufacturing.

 

[Mark Brown]

Holy hell man that's bananas

 

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I can’t really say one side is better than the other, they both have their down sides. Maybe we can put them all on a cruise ship and sink it. Kinda like turning your letters in in Scrabble. Take your chances and start over cus this hand sucks.

.....or wood chip container ships. It needs to be neither pretty or comfortable.

 

[Floorist]

.....or wood chip container ships. It needs to be neither pretty or comfortable.

Just run them through a wood chipper.

 

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5 month shipping delay! So much for just in time manufacturing.


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Hello, Diablo.
Any way to get your current blade re-sharpened?

 

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Just run them through a wood chipper.

We don't want to get DEQ involved.

 

[C.J.]

Hello, Diablo.
Any way to get your current blade re-sharpened?

I’ve got so many blades that I prolly won’t have to worry about running out of sharp blades until the end of the year at least. I think I paid around $700 to have them all sharpened in 2017. I’m seriously considering buying my own blade sharpener.

Sharpening your blades is cheaper than buying new ones and they are way sharper than when they come out of their package.

 

[Floorist]

I’ve got so many blades that I prolly won’t have to worry about running out of sharp blades until the end of the year at least. I think I paid around $700 to have them all sharpened in 2017. I’m seriously considering buying my own blade sharpener.

Sharpening your blades is cheaper than buying new ones and they are way sharper than when they come out of their package.

I have sharpened chain saw blades and lawn mower blades, never tried anything else.

 

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I’ve got so many blades that I prolly won’t have to worry about running out of sharp blades until the end of the year at least. I think I paid around $700 to have them all sharpened in 2017. I’m seriously considering buying my own blade sharpener.

Sharpening your blades is cheaper than buying new ones and they are way sharper than when they come out of their package.

I read reviews on a harbor freight sharpener. Every review said it was total crap. I think mostly because of the sharpening stones being way too rough.
Buy a real sharpening machine and start a sharpening service on the side.

 

[C.J.]

Yeah. I think it will be a few hundred dollar investment but it will also pay for itself the first time around.

 

[Mark Brown]

You are telling me I am supposed to change the blades on my saws?? Thats crazy talk!!
So I do recognize that I am definitely supposed to change the blades on my saws but I would be lying if I said I did not still have the original that came with my saw 4 years ago and still use it on a regular basis.

 

[Floorist]

Not something I wanted to do, but had to call the cops on my neighbor. My wife puts her little dog out on a lead. Tonight was the 4th time the neighbor's dog attacked her dog. Luckily I got there quick and she was not hurt. The same dog went after my wife once and my daughter once. We have been telling them they need to fix their fence to keep their dog in and they won't do anything. He is a city councilman, so he will find a way to get even.

 

[C.J.]

All my neighbors are great, does that mean I’m the ****** neighbor?

 

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You are telling me I am supposed to change the blades on my saws?? Thats crazy talk!!
So I do recognize that I am definitely supposed to change the blades on my saws but I would be lying if I said I did not still have the original that came with my saw 4 years ago and still use it on a regular basis.

I'm going to dig around tomorrow and see if I can find the original blade that came on my 1989 Makita portable table saw.
If I can find it, do you want to buy a brand new blade that's never been used? ...... It's "vintage"

 

[highup]

I'm working today.
Watching glue dry is work right?

 

[C.J.]

My PC nail gun that I rebuilt not too long ago started acting up again. Seeing as how it’s over 20 years old I decided to break down and just get a new one. With the current price of wood you woulda thought I coulda traded that pile of sawdust for my new nail gun.

 

[Jon]

I'm working today.
Watching glue dry is work right?

You should be using acrylic type glues
Just drop it in wet