Mike Parzych
04-01-2006, 9:03 PM
I just watched a segment on "Dirty Jobs." I don't know why it was classified as a "dirty" job, but it featured a company called Georgian Bay Wet Woods which salvages sunken logs from the logging era. They salvage, and kiln dry the stuff. On this program they were working with some cherry logs from pre-1815.
So far everything's okay.
I started to feel uncomfortable when they showed this stuff being cut for veneer because I knew what would happen next. Cut to a factory which is slapping it onto particle board. I could feel the bile rising into my throat. What a horrible fate for such glorious lumber.
I wretched as they started applying STAIN to it, and made some sort of ungodly expensive desk.
By now I was nearing projectile vomiting mode.
Why would anyone do this to that sort of lumber?
I believe this should be legislated into Felony status.
So far everything's okay.
I started to feel uncomfortable when they showed this stuff being cut for veneer because I knew what would happen next. Cut to a factory which is slapping it onto particle board. I could feel the bile rising into my throat. What a horrible fate for such glorious lumber.
I wretched as they started applying STAIN to it, and made some sort of ungodly expensive desk.
By now I was nearing projectile vomiting mode.
Why would anyone do this to that sort of lumber?
I believe this should be legislated into Felony status.