Sawyer retires

[KyTreeFarmer]

Lots of food for thought in this thread. As one who can't seem to "part" with any of my lifetime collection of stuff I am beginning to think about exactly what to do with all of it when I am no longer able to use it. Very few of us are able to plan out that exact day of driving into the ditch, so maybe an early execution of the sale from hell would be in order to relieve the family of the hassle. Would be like having to put down a favorite pet..........hmmmmmm. So maybe the guy at the auction had tears for more than one reason.

KTF

[Autocar]

The fellow I talked about last night that was cutting a tree and died right at the base of it. His widow asked me to inventory all his sawed lumber for a up coming auction. All I can say is O MY ! He had a hooped roof barn that was huge and it was full from top to bottom plus every out building and a old house was full. I still grin to myself when I think about going in the house to take the inventory and some kind of critter went up the stair case like a bat out of hell I dang near jumped out the side widow it startled me so bad. He never ever sawed a log that was lumber quality it was always crotches three feet maybe six feet ,for sure it was a circus for me.Tons of coffee bean placks for deer mounts fish ect. in other words a life time of keeping. I remember him telling me once that he didn't care if he ever sold one piece he just enjoyed looking at it all  How many of use guys are sitting here thinking we fit that criteria ?   

[Chuck White]

The fellow I talked about last night that was cutting a tree and died right at the base of it. His widow asked me to inventory all his sawed lumber for a up coming auction. All I can say is O MY ! He had a hooped roof barn that was huge and it was full from top to bottom plus every out building and a old house was full. I still grin to myself when I think about going in the house to take the inventory and some kind of critter went up the stair case like a bat out of hell I dang near jumped out the side widow it startled me so bad. He never ever sawed a log that was lumber quality it was always crotches three feet maybe six feet ,for sure it was a circus for me.Tons of coffee bean placks for deer mounts fish ect. in other words a life time of keeping. I remember him telling me once that he didn't care if he ever sold one piece he just enjoyed looking at it all  How many of use guys are sitting here thinking we fit that criteria ?   

ME !

I have some lumber (not much) that I don't really have a use for right now, but I do like to check it out once in a while!