so much winning its hard to see reality...
I'm from China. I need logs. There's a log to come.
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CLASSIIILVR
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Flush some dandys this morning.....oops...sorry!
ChoppyChoppy
Tree Freak
Take that back, ended up with about 1000 tons total.
KiwiBro
Mill 'em, nails be damned.
You know what's crazy? I know someone putting the final details on exporting firewood from overseas to USA and Canada. Whoda thunk there could possibly be enough $ in it for that carry on. He was saying the margins are better than his local market.
ChoppyChoppy
Tree Freak
Couple years ago the grocery store was selling birch campfire wood that had been brought in from Latvia.
I couldn't understand how it made sense $$ wise.
That wood we bought... the contract that fell out was a New Zealand company that was buying and exporting. Not sure all the details but in the end the deal fell through.
He has a boatload of wood though. Would have loved to get it all, but I don't have that kind of $$. A shady outfit in the neighboring town (the type that everyone is pretty sure is a front for not so legal things, but for some reason hasn't been caught), cut him a check for about 100k for logs. He's got a yard that's maybe an 1-2 acres and full of all sorts of junk cars and what not. They had to stack the logs as high as a 330 shovel loader will go.
Also a few others ended up with ~50-100 cords as well.
So Alaska wood, bought by a New Zealand company and shipped to China.
I can't understand how that could have enough $$ all around that everyone has butter on their bread.
I mean shoot, we have declined jobs because they were too far to haul equipment and logs.. and that was just ~100-150 mile area, not around the world!
I couldn't understand how it made sense $$ wise.
That wood we bought... the contract that fell out was a New Zealand company that was buying and exporting. Not sure all the details but in the end the deal fell through.
He has a boatload of wood though. Would have loved to get it all, but I don't have that kind of $$. A shady outfit in the neighboring town (the type that everyone is pretty sure is a front for not so legal things, but for some reason hasn't been caught), cut him a check for about 100k for logs. He's got a yard that's maybe an 1-2 acres and full of all sorts of junk cars and what not. They had to stack the logs as high as a 330 shovel loader will go.
Also a few others ended up with ~50-100 cords as well.
So Alaska wood, bought by a New Zealand company and shipped to China.
I can't understand how that could have enough $$ all around that everyone has butter on their bread.
I mean shoot, we have declined jobs because they were too far to haul equipment and logs.. and that was just ~100-150 mile area, not around the world!
One of my veneer buyers called again and is begging for logs. The China market is still booming for at least 90 days due to a "truce" on tariffs. I wish I had some more to sell!
What exactly do they do with these logs in China?
