Tom's Woodmizer Party Pictures

[Tom]

Here is Eugene Davis and his wife ,Cecile, from North Carolina standing with Don Laskowski (WoodMizer creator) at the presentation of the LT30 given away at the WoodMizer's 20th birthday party.


Eugene posed with Nathan Collins who mangages the Newnan, Georgia Woodmizer Distributorship.  Nathan is Eugene's Woodmizer contact.  His operation falls within Nathan's Territory.


The concert was good but the guys had to get out of their chairs.




We had Pork Chops, baked beans, cole slaw and bread.  This was one of a dozen serving lines.


Here is the Forestry Forum Feed Trough


Mary was getting all of the attention


macurtis and Jeff "Now look Jeff, I'll pull the sawmill over to that side door if you'll go get the truck......We could be long gone before the drawing."


A Tall Tail preparing a Tall Tale


The guys at Indianapolis

Tom, Macurtis, JeffB, Bibbeyman, Mary, John, Arkansawyer and Renee.

[Gordon]

Some great pic's Tom just wish I could have been there for a chance at that mill. But events around here have kept me pretty busy the past couple of days.

Gordon

[J Beyer]

Dang nab it!  If I knew where you guys were hanging out, I would have gotten into that shot!  I might have broken the camera, so maybe it was a good thing that i am not in it.

JB

[woodman]

I'm the guy in the white hat  

[Bro. Noble]

Tom,

Thanks to you as well as Bibbyman for sharing your pictures.  It's especially nice for the rest of us to put some pictures with the names.  As for myself, I look pretty much like the fellar at the left.  Lift the lid and you'll not see anything for the glare.  Tried to get a discount from my barber,  the wise acre wanted to charge me a finders fee!

Noble

[Jeff]

Good going Noble, you grew another tree!

[Kevin_H.]

I guess I'm like that guy that sneaks into you vacation pics. I'm the one in the blue shirt standing behind bibby at the eating table...

[ARKANSAWYER]

Iam the guy in the red shirt and hat with my name on it.  
 Lots of people came up and asked if I was
              "THE ARKANSAWYER".  
 My wife said that with some of them people I sould be careful how I ansawer that.    I knew Trapper was not there.  I have not heeard from him much lately.
 It was a great time!!!  
 And NO I was not thrown out from the last supper for rasing a ruckus.  It was not Lenord Skinner but Hank Jr's  "HOG WILD" song that I wanted Larry to sing so I could call the HAWGS for them HOOSIERS.
 As a matter of fact Bibbyman and I were some of the last to leave and I think Bibbyman and Mary locked the gate when  they left.
ARKANSAWYER

[Bibbyman]

We stood on the steps and talked with John Hick of Wood-Mizer for another hour – mostly about his new son Caleb.  

[woodman]

  When i did not win the mill i was in the first wave out the door.

[whitepe]

If my hearing is any good and my wife says it isn't  
I think the winner of the sawmill was Eugene Davis.
Ever since finding out about forestryforum at the
woodmizer 20th shindig I haven't had as much time to saw logs.  
Heading up Cedarville, Michigan way in August  for vacation.
(They must have logs in a town named Cedarville).  
Jeff, is there anything I should check out on Lime Island?

[Jeff]

Lime Island is a heck of a place. If you have a boat to get out there you should reserve one of the cabins for a night. The contact for Lime Island Reservations is:
Mary Wollan 906-635-6161
wollanm@michigan.gov

There are Hiking Trails, The old lime kilns, most of the old builings should be available for you to look in. The best part of Lime Island for me is sitting in the evening watching the freightors go by. The Island is only a stones throw off the shipping lane and them boats are right in yer face.

Our family has a cabin near cedarville, closer to Detour Village. When are you going up? There is always a chance we may be up there. I will also be going to Lime Island one day yet this fall for a work day.

[whitepe]

I'm leaving Illinois for Cedarville the afternoon of August 6th.
after I get off work. Probably stay all night in Benton Harbor
or Grand Rapids. Returning home on August 13th.
Going to take in the Les Cheneaux Antique Boat Show.
Now there's some nice use for some wood.
Probably won't stay in cabins on lime island since my
in-laws place is free.  
But I will try to talk father-in-law into taking his boat over
there one of the days.
We have been going to Cedarville every summer and
even some Decembers for Christmas skiing etc
for the last 20 years. The in-laws spend quite a bit
of time there, Father-in-law has a grain farm in Indiana
and 60 acres of certified tree farm which a State Forester
re-certified this summer. Needs to be re-certified every
five years.  Father-in-law is retired now and rents his farm land.
His renter was clearing some land on another farm about
15 miles away and was going to burn all of the logs
but my father-in-law talked him into getting in touch with
someone with a Woodmizer.  It turns out that the renter's
wife had a cousin with a woodmizer and they didn't even
know it. Kind of ironic isn't it.  The renter let my father-in-law
have three red-oak logs and I will take my LT15 over to
Indiana some weekend this fall when they go back
down below.

[Bro. Noble]

Whitepe,

What part of Ill. are you from? (Wouldn't hurt to complete your profile and biography)   My wife is from Tazewell Co.  I worked at Cat in E. Peoria during summers while going to college.  

Welcome to the forum by the way.

Noble ( that's pronounced No Bull)

[Jeff]

Whitepe,
be sure to get a whitefish sandwich at the boat show, they can't be beat. Also, if you get a chance and have not done it, the boat tour of the Les Cheneauxs is well worth it. They bring over one of Arnold lines Mackinaw island ferries for it so its pretty confortable tour. I would imagine if you have been visiting that long though you have been there done that.

A week is hardly enough for that area. The eastern U.P. is my prefered resting spot!

[Ron Scott]

I placed the first picnic tables and fire rings on Government Island, now a National Scenic Area, back in 1965 for boater's picnic spot. I wonder what's there now??

Also did a lot of salvage diving in that area back then.

The wooden boat show is something to see. I always look for any of the old Chris Crafts that were built here at the Cadillac plant. They're hard to find. My father-in-law was a boat builder there before fiber glass put them out of the luxury wooden boat business.