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Joe Pelonio
10-26-2015, 12:52 PM
A friend has a mill on the WA coast and does mainly Alder for the restaurant and home industry (slabs for cooking salmon). Somehow he's gotten mixed up with a study being done on Eucalyptus robusta. It seems that the Australian native tree was introduced in Hawaii, and is now considered invasive, and readily available in quantities suitable for commercial production, if profitable applications are found for it. One possible use is flooring, and he's been asked if he could do some milling if the logs were shipped there. The problem is that his kiln is too big for the small test runs, and he cannot afford to keep it out of production on the alder to try the Eucalyptus.

Anyone know of a smaller kiln operator in the Pacific Northwest (reasonable shipping distance from Raymond, WA) big enough to handle drying about a shipping container full of it after he cuts?