I say "Full steam ahead"
rmihalek, I want to thank you for offering up this fundamental concept:
Mikhalek said:
Why not pull the useful stuff (like trees) out of that debris and to reduce the need to spend so much money just to bury good wood that people want.
Mihalek, I'm sure there are thousands more of us who are thinking the same line. I'm SURE OF IT. I'm
so certain of this that I feel all we need to do is to offer up a plan, enroll the companies with the gear, empower the locals to be able to do it with our collective help and support and THE PROJECT WILL WORK.
All we have to do is create it, or pull together the existing sources into a common vision. You spoke the vision. You said it. Now we do it. That starts with the group of us, here and now. We create it. We have the ability to do this. We have the direct 'ins' with the manufacturers than any other tree-related occupation, we have the connections. There is no other professional group more highly suited to fuel a massive tree reclamation project. I believe that.
So are you IN or you OUT?.........
(everybody....?)
OK, by silence I take that to mean you're IN. OK, let's get to work! I'll take the first stab at this, by describing the logistics based on the companies we could involve. We can't do this without industry kingpins and local support. It's communication, gentlemen, and we have cell phones and the internet. Advantage, us.
In the next post, I will describe who I see involved, and how I see this happening. What we're doing here, in essence, is throwing a big pile of clay on the table. We all will shape it from here, OK? We are
team in seeing this thing through, and I think we can enact and get a plan in motion in
24 hours, where our setup can be within 3 days, to a week. Don't lose focus of how easy this can be, Men and Women; it is all communication up until the time we start moving wood to the central staging areas. Communication. We have a large voice here, and it's a GOOD IDEA, as well as being the right thing.
An unprecedented scale of recycling trees, but timing is everything and the longer we wait, the more trees are going to hit the landfill. We're already two weeks behind. I'm counting on that the key industries are in motion toward doing something already. We need to pull together all the sources so our result is greater than the sum of the parts. This is The Great Treeguy Recycling Experiment, an opportunity to create so many win-wins and benefits to the environment, people and economy that I don't see a way it can fail. I truly feel this is our duty and responsibility and I'll gladly spearhead the effort and offer my 100% contribution to seeing it through.