9 October 2012

 
Let the church bells ring!  Sing out loudly and joyfully!  Start the parade!  Got an email this morning from Chree saying she was fine with my buying, not only a new Toyota Tacoma pickup truck, but also the Kubota loader / backhoe / skidder that I described in the 4 October blog posting. Then Jody Baynes called and said that he took my sawmill quality logs to a different mill, where they not only were paying $35 more per thousand board feet, but were using the International ¼ Scale (which favors the logger) instead of the Scribner Scale (which favors the mill for smaller diameter logs) to calculate the yield from the load.  What a great day!!!!  On the way from picking up the carpet shampooer from Lynne & Perry’s, spotted a couple of trailers beside the road with a For Sale sign on one of them.  Unfortunately, the 16′ tandem axle trailer that I would have wanted was not for sale, and the one that was for sale was too lightly built for what I will need.  On a sad note, the carpet shampooer quit sucking while I was cleaning the RV carpets, so had to turn off the furnace and open the windows and main cabin door all day to dry the place out.  Got the toe caps on the wood walkway between the third and Halfway There landings.  Because I had plenty of lumber to work with, had minimal trouble cutting the triple compound angle today (of course). Late afternoon went down to Pittsford where Bob Giddings (the owner of Giddings Equipment) and I negotiated over the B3200 tractor, reached agreement for a few hundred less than I had expected to pay, and started the procurement paperwork process.  Did I mention that this was a REALLY GREAT DAY?!?!