Letter: Great idea: harvesting downed trees

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[Regarding “Team Timber: One Community’s Quest to Manage Its Downed Trees, Post-Helene,” Jan. 22, Xpress, as featured in Xpress’ Jan. 29 newsletter:]

My partner and I own and live on a 4-acre property in Flat Rock. We live much closer to Saluda, above the Green River. We lost 17 trees that were topped or that fell. I would love to donate them to a lumber company. Insurance paid for us to remove one of the trees.

There are many other trees down on neighboring properties, and I would be happy to survey neighbors to see if they would mind donating the lumber in exchange for removal. I absolutely love the idea of harvesting the wood instead of having it decay over time or burned up in a pile.

Thanks for the newsletter with the suggestion of such a great idea!

— Angie Davis
Flat Rock


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3 thoughts on “Letter: Great idea: harvesting downed trees”

  1. MIke

    The only way this happens is you pay somebody to do it. The scale is not large enough for direct profit.

    • Post and Beam

      In Germany, the rest of prosperous Europe, furniture makers, timber framers, woodworkers, master carpenters, and other artisans would have already selected the trees that they want on a small and large scale, logged them, and taken them to a mill to begin milling them to the custom sizes that they need to help residents rebuild within a year without depending upon a government to fund it. And, the rebuilding would consist of the most beautiful, hurricane resistant timber frames. They would all profit from every bit of salvaged wood, and they would be living inside works of art, designed to last centuries. Creative, positive attitude makes a big, positive improvement.

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