The start of my affair with wood

[Rob Luter]

My family was from Northern Michigan and as a kid I spent summers up there. It was a lumber culture, with many things named after the timber industry, sawmills, and the like. My Grandparents got me this book when I was a pup. I ran across it on Amazon and may need to snag a replacement copy.

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[Frank Pratt]

That almost looks like the cover of a romance novel :)

[Jim Becker]

That almost looks like the cover of a romance novel :)
True, but it's missing one key visual element... ;)

[Frank Pratt]

True, but it's missing one key visual element... ;)

2 key elements.

[Rob Luter]

I always wanted one of those spiffy red sashes to use as a belt.

[Phil Mueller]

I still do a bit of roaming through northern MI. A good amount of lumber work still going on. No axe sounds these days. Machine clear cutting and replanting seems the order of the day. 5-10 years later, can make for some excellent grouse/woodcock habitat. There are still quite a few independent saw mills around. Scored some nice white cedar a few years ago on a back road in the middle of nowhere.

[Matt Day]

Man buns apparently were in fashion in the lumber culture.

[Jim Matthews]

Man buns apparently were in fashion in the lumber culture.

That's a Toque, you sunburned heathen.

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