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Started by hackberry jake, July 24, 2012, 05:56:51 PM

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hackberry jake

How many of you have a market for your slabs, or at least a use for your slabs. I have gas heat so I dont burn slabs that much. Just in the stove in the shop. I am thinking about getting a pull-behind chipper big enough to chip my slabs, but thats a big expense that I dont know if I would recoupe. We use mulch in our garden, but I make all I need for the garden in about two full days of running our 5hp briggs chipper.
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jake i ran into this problem too, i had way more slab wood than i could ever use.  my solution was to cut it into firewood and i'll be installing a wood burning stove to heat our house this fall.  i'm looking forward to using these formerly annoying byproducts of my milling.... 8)
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123maxbars

I have a few things I do with my slabs to get rid of them. Some that are decent/clear of knots, SYP for example I will take some extra time and take a draw kinfe and peel the bark off. I then try to get them to about the same width if possible and sale them as siding for barns,checken coops etc to people who like the log cabin look. They usually don't care if they are green and will shirnk a little. Some request the bark to stay on. I also advertise them on craigslist and sale by the truck load for bonfires etc.  If you have the time and can be creative you can actually get some money out of them, hope this helps.
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Mark Wentzell

What about one of the briquette making machines available? You could grind the slabs press them into briquettes and then sell them. Not sure if there'd be much of a market for them. I guess it would depend on what species you have too. 


Just a thought.

redbeard

If you dont stay on it the pile build up can turn into a bigger job plus a  mess. Firewood is your best option. Sell it or offer it for free. The bark that falls off is my biggest headache it dulls my 3 pt chippers blades quickly ive been burnning what I can lately before the dry burn ban weather comes(been a weird summer over here.) I have sold some of the straight and thick ones for siding and fencing too. Rent a trailer chipper before you buy one there nice but spendy and pricey to maintain.
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Riggs

A guy up the road from me has offered to park a trailer at my little mill for what slabs I have for firewood. I don't saw alot, but may take him up on it. Campgrounds sometimes sell firewood and may be willing to take some from you.
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wormy

you could get a good chipper and bag the shavings. there is a guy up the road that does that. lots of people buy them for barn stals and dog lots. he said he makes more money on shavings than lumber during certian times of the year.

beenthere

wormy
There have been some shavers listed for sale. But they run pretty good money and need a fair amount of support equipment. But the shaving idea could be a good one....
Just won't get shavings out of a chipper. ;)
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wormy

my bad. thanks for correcting me there. and if you didnt want to bag sell by the truck load.

Indiana Robinson

This site might have some useful ideas for a few guys. A good neighbor and I almost went this route a few years ago. I had a mountain of wood chips and we were both using pellet stoves.
There is a wide price range on the site.
http://www.pelletpros.com/id68.html


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Magicman

Mulching the garden with non-composted chips can lead to getting your soil out of whack.

Since we have mild Winters and a abundance of Oak firewood, most of our slabs are simply burned in bonfires, etc.


 
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xlogger

I got us an outdoor water heater earlier this year and got it going when the winter was over. So I'm starting to cut up the slabs now for next winter. There is so much waste wood around the mill we use it so far for just heating the water and hot tub at our house.
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slider

I agree with mm on this one be careful about  getting your garden loaded up with too much carbon .I mixed some saw dust that had not composted properly and hurt my tomatoes.
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Sixacresand

I cut the oak slabs into firewood and I give it to folks who are not able to do themselves.  I put a tarps over pine slab piles and when its raining I'll snatch the tarps and burn them.  Ideally, the chip mill down the street from me could take them.  They probably chip up more trees in a minute than i would saw up in two years. They probably have a good laugh if I pulled in with a 70's era pulp wood truck load of slaps.   LOL
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Ron Wenrich

You could use a hog instead of a chipper.  The product on the other end is a shredded mulch.  Much more salable then slabs and edging strips.  Also, less maintenance than a chipper.  They're not as particular on dirt.

We send our chips to a mill that reduces them to mulch through a big hog.  The softwoods are sold as animal bedding.  The hardwoods are sold as mulch, but it is also used for such things as playground bedding and for horse riding rinks.  The mulch has a pretty good market in most areas.  And the value is much higher than just for slabs.
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craigc

I have a friend that runs a woodmizer 8+ hrs a day.  He has the same problem with slabs he can sell a little firewood but does not get rid of the bulk.  He has looked into everything that has been talked about here none of it is finacially fesiable.  I have told him there is only one solution.  Burn It!
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paul case

2 local sawmills handle this problem different ways.
1 bought a huge hog and is making mulch and sells it for only $300 semi load.
1 has set up a huge boiler and makes all its own energy to steam dry walnut lumber. they also have to grind it before it works in their system.
Both are very expensive to set up and operate and I don't think either will work for a set up like mine.

My solution has been to cut as much as I can sell into firewood but in the last year I dont have the time, so it gets bundled and sold for $10 to $15 per bundle. A mild winter made me come to April with 20 bundles sitting on the lot. I gave them to my dad who burned out a bunch of old stumps with them. Now I have 25 or more bundles sitting there and I am making more every day. I can make as much as 2 bundles a day but usually just 1.
The best solution with the least equipment I have heard of is making those small bundles of firewood like Busy Beaver does. I just don't have the market or the time. PC
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I put them into a rack while I am sawing (about 4' wide x 4' high) and when that is full I band them and sell the bundle as firewood. I get $30-35 per bundle for hardwoods and don't have much of a problem getting rid of them.  I can't hardly give away the pine slabs though  :-\

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Gday

With hardwood it will go into firewood as usual but with Pine and Cypress I am going to let it pile up then get a tub or drum grinder in which ever works out cheapest to grind it into either bedding or boilerfuel  ;) :D ;D 8) I can get stuff ground here at about $6 a yard/cubic meter Im still thinking of maby getting a small pallet plant and putting it through and making wood pallets out of it also  .My thinking is that instead of running a chipper inline with the mill and having maint and running costs daily I can just get the grinder in every time I get up enough for a days grindin and get it gone in a day  ;)

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xulgiy

This won't do you any good in your local, but up north it goes pretty qucik to maple syrup producers.  They band them in half cord bundles and sell them for around $25.

Any molasses producers around??

nlrwrangler

Quote from: hackberry jake on July 24, 2012, 05:56:51 PM
How many of you have a market for your slabs, or at least a use for your slabs. I have gas heat so I dont burn slabs that much. Just in the stove in the shop. I am thinking about getting a pull-behind chipper big enough to chip my slabs, but thats a big expense that I dont know if I would recoupe. We use mulch in our garden, but I make all I need for the garden in about two full days of running our 5hp briggs chipper.

jake

for all you hard wood slabs I have a guy that would come and pick them up from you if you have a way to load them. 

call me and I will give you his number. 

Ron Wenrich

Quote from: paul case on July 25, 2012, 07:06:53 AM
1 bought a huge hog and is making mulch and sells it for only $300 semi load.



We get more than that for our sawdust.  Our bark is going for $750/load and we don't age it or double grind it.  Sometimes you have to spend time in marketing.  Your waste shouldn't be dragging you down.
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craigc

Jake,  If you are making money sawing and can stay busy 8+ hours a day why would you stop sawing so you can sell firewood?  Saw as much as you can, sell slabs on a saturday morning.  This is what we do with mulch we don't like selling it during the week it takes us away from production. We have a chipper, debarker and a grinder to dump cutoffs and slab racks into but we still burn some material.  I understand you are wanting to maximize your product and don't want to waste the log. But if you are getting the most out of the log, lumber wise be proud of that and don't worry so much about waste.
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hackberry jake

Thanks for all the input fellas. I probably saw about 8hrs a month. Mainly for myself and friends an family. I have about decided that I'm just going to rent a big chipper for a weekend and process as many slabs as I can into mulch for the garden next year. U guys are a wealth of information! 8)
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tyb525

Jake, unless you compost that wood, mulch won't do any good for the garden. It might actually harm it.
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hackberry jake

It'll have close to a year to breakdown some. The plants we mulch always do much better than the ones we don't. This year I multched one row of corn and had three rows unmulched. The row I mulched is the only row we got decent corn from. It accepts more water an holds the moisture for longer. It also keeps the soil cooler. There's nothing wrong with adding carbon to the soil as long as you add nitrogen to break it down. We have a dump truck load of chicken litter spread on the garden every fall then we till it all together. The mulch/litter/soil mix all turns out right by spring. If it weren't for mulch I would spend most of my time in the garden pulling pigweed. I hates pigweed  >:(
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bandmiller2

Jake has the right idea sawdust ties up the nitrogen when it breaks down in the soil and requires the addition of nitrogen.I've used horsey poop with alot of shavings between the corn rows with good effect.As far as slabs, I'am spoiled again, I just throw them in a pile and the tree service guys cut them up for our heat when things are slow. Frank C.
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slider

pig weed,big problem here in georgia although cows love it as well as pigs and goats.it's taking over here.
al glenn

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We have Mexicans that come by every year and buy corn to make tortillas.

They also pick a trash bag FULL of PIG WEED leaves from the young plants. They cook them up like you do polk salad.....olive oil, onions, bacon. They say it's good. I was told it's a Greek dish also.


And Danny, you are RIGHT! Nut grass is almost like kudzu!!!!  >:(
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sandhills

Pigweed doesn't bother me much (easy to kill), although I can't say as I'd like to eat it  ;)  Waterhemp on the other hand is a whole different story, you can keep it.

petefrom bearswamp

Can't legally burn em here in NY, so now give them away after trying unsuccessfully to sell at $20 per pickup load.
Edgings are the problem as even for free people don't want them.
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Dewey

I pile m slabs  and before winter I have a Tub Grinder come in They usually get 11-12 trailer loads  that they turn to mulch.... They pay me $450 per load....

drobertson

How many bundles (42X42) typ. size does it take to make a load? Thanks.
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thecfarm

Dewey that is some slab pile and sawing too.
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Magicman

Since I am portable, I just saw um and leave um.   ;D


 
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Cypressstump

I've been burning most of my mine since just getting started. The old sinker gum center heart log left over due to it being hollowed posed a slight problem until yesterday. I had a 10"x10"x 20' useless cant , water logged so it would take forever to dry out to burn.The tuplio gum center hearts shake out so the centers are no good anyways. I toted the cant with the forklift and set it near my burn pile in sight of the little road my mill is off of. It's sorta of a impressive piece of wood to passerbys.

Few hours later 2 guys pull up and asked If I was going to burn that " big ole timber" ?
I explained to them it was no good for any more board. Said did'nt matter they would like to have it. I said its checked badly and hollow down the middle, it's gonna split on ya. ... Could not talk them out of it. So the they returned with a trailer and I gladly forked it up on the trailer for them, have no idea how they will get it off or move it. Don't care now that it's gone anyways, all parties iz happy !

Heck, I coulda got a beer off that ole pc of junk !     ;D ;D
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MM,

That is your Modus Operandi. 

You are also like Palidan, Have Sawmill, Will Travel.  The young guys on here will not understand the Palidan part, but you old codgers will  :D.
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pineywoods

Quote from: WDH on July 27, 2012, 09:27:15 PM
MM,

That is your Modus Operandi. 

You are also like Palidan, Have Sawmill, Will Travel.  The young guys on here will not understand the Palidan part, but you old codgers will  :D.

I resemble that remark.  Y'all must have been watching re-runs. I watched the real thing on the neighbor's 12 inch crosley black and white tv.  ;D ;D
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POSTON WIDEHEAD

Quote from: pineywoods on July 27, 2012, 09:49:40 PM
Quote from: WDH on July 27, 2012, 09:27:15 PM
MM,

That is your Modus Operandi. 

You are also like Palidan, Have Sawmill, Will Travel.  The young guys on here will not understand the Palidan part, but you old codgers will  :D.

I resemble that remark.  Y'all must have been watching re-runs. I watched the real thing on the neighbor's 12 inch crosley black and white tv.  ;D ;D


Hey Danny.....I thing he's got us on this one.   ;D
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WH_Conley

Gee, Piney. I thought they were original when I watched them in the 60's. Good TV is hard to find.
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Quote from: WH_Conley on July 27, 2012, 11:50:51 PM
Gee, Piney. I thought they were original when I watched them in the 60's. Good TV is hard to find.

The series ran from 1957 to 1963, so you could have been watching the original in the early sixties...

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thecfarm

Magicman,that looks just about the size of my slab pile. My Boo-Boo was down there under it a good 2 hours barking steady. I went down and got him and brought him up to the house to get some water and 5 minutes later he was down there again. He can't understand why I don't help him get the woodchunk that is living in it. Or that's what i think is in there. He got quite a ways under it too. i told him he's to old and fat to be doing that.  ;D  He don't listen to well when he hunting. I did take the lawn mower down to mow around it. I might get a shoot at it.
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ellmoe

Quote from: WDH on July 27, 2012, 09:27:15 PM
MM,

That is your Modus Operandi. 

You are also like Palidan, Have Sawmill, Will Travel.  The young guys on here will not understand the Palidan part, but you old codgers will  :D.

  Dang, I woke up this morning feeling fine and now I'm an "old codger"! :o I think I'll shuffle over to my rocker, grab my shawl, and take a nap! That is, if I can find my walker to help get me over there. You young "whipper- snappers" hold down the fort while I'm dozing.....I ain't talking to you Danny! ;D
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Magicman

I feel more like I do now than I did when I didn't.   :)
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 say_what
Quote from: Magicman on July 28, 2012, 05:00:58 PM
I feel more like I do now than I did when I didn't.   :)
The older I get I wish my body could Re-Gen.

Tree Feller

Quote from: ellmoe on July 28, 2012, 03:02:05 PM
  Dang, I woke up this morning feeling fine and now I'm an "old codger"! :o I think I'll shuffle over to my rocker, grab my shawl, and take a nap! That is, if I can find my walker to help get me over there. You young "whipper- snappers" hold down the fort while I'm dozing.....I ain't talking to you Danny! ;D
Mark

Ellmoe, it is what it is!  I also remember watching the original "Have Gun Will Travel" shows. Paladin was the classic anti-hero.

Not only did I watch it but all my schoolmates watched it, too, since we only got channel 7...the abc affiliate in Tyler. Occassionally, if the weather was right we could get a fuzzy channel 11 out of Dallas. Now, that's something the whipper-snappers would not comprehend...only one TV channel. We were also on a telephone party line with about 10 other houses.

I may be a relic but I'm not ready for the rocking chair yet.  ;D
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Tree Feller

Quote from: Magicman on July 28, 2012, 05:00:58 PM
I feel more like I do now than I did when I didn't.   :)

That's what Microsoft Excel would call a "circular reference."   :D
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WDH

I figured that the "old codger" reference would ruffle a few shawls  :).

Yes, one channel.  Ours was CBS.  When the second channel came along, I thought I was in heaven  :D.  Now I have 200, and there is nothing good to watch (other than the Olympic games  ;D).
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POSTON WIDEHEAD

Quote from: WDH on July 28, 2012, 08:22:32 PM
I figured that the "old codger" reference would ruffle a few shawls  :).



That "DEPENDS".
The older I get I wish my body could Re-Gen.

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delvis

We used to throw all the slabs in two giant piles and they sat there for years.  I decided it would be worth it to me at almost not cost to tie them up in large bundles and park them beside the road at $15 per.  These bundles are about 36" in diameter and 8-9' long so it's a good buy for thr money.  This year I went to $20 each and they still sell out faster than I can put them together. 
If I never saw another board I will at least die happy having spent the last few years working with my dad!

sandhills

My wife and I went to a concert last weekend, Def Leopard/Poison/Lita Ford, and I thought that dated us.  Now you're talking one tv channel and party lines, guess I never really knew how old I've become!  Beats the alternative though  :).  Oh, any of you ever start a rumor just to see which neighbors were listening in?  ;D

Lookin4lunkers

My local sawer heats his house and kiln with a large OWB.  He also sells bundles to anyone wanting them, $10 you load or $20 and he'll load them for you with the tractor.  Sorry I don't know the specifics on the kiln just that it works well and he built it himself.  There are a lot of campsites in the area so quite a few guys buy bundles, buck up the slabs and sell little teny tiny bundles (maybe 8 pieces) for 5 bucks a piece. 
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Chuck White

It's really surprising what a little bundle of fire wood (we call it kindling) will sell for as you get close to a campground.

Around here, lots of people have "pigeon hole" bins made up, they are about 18" square and they fill them up with split slab wood and sell them for $5.00 a pop.  The worse thing is people will buy them and never bat an eye!  :o

When my wife's Aunt & Uncle need wood for their fire pit at their camp on the lake, I just park my 6X12 near the mill at the customers site (with their permission, of course) and when it gets full enough, I strap it down and take it to camp the next time we go.

At our leasure, we will buck it up and stack it! 
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WDH

Buying a pick-up truck load of hardwood slabs for $10 is a very good deal for the Buyer.  However, it gets them gone and there are less places for the possums and snakes to hide.  That is a good thing.

Down here, snakiness is an important factor to manage  :).
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Bibbyman

We sale our slabs for $10/PU load – customer loads.  We also have a number of customers that have trailers they leave parked and we fill as we clear off the mill.  We charge $10 to $20 depending on size of trailer and what we can load into it.

The season runs from fall and kicks into high gear in late fall when temperatures fall.  By late winter, it dies off.

We build up some inventory during the summer months.  Some customers bring their trailer over all year round but less often in the summer months.

A few years back we ran out of slabs early and couldn't make enough.  But the government has helped us out with that problem.  One winter we started getting people asking for receipts and we'd give them one.  Come to find out the local social services office had some heating subsidy program and were reimbursing them for their firewood purchases.  Next year, these customers didn't show up.  The social services had switched to giving vouchers.  Firewood cutters in the area would sign up for the program.  When someone came in to pick up vouchers, they were given a list of firewood cutters that would cut and deliver firewood.  When the delivery was made, the cutter would collect the voucher.  At the end of the season, he'd turn them in for his pay.  So...  Instead of coming out and loading a pickup load of slabs by hand and paying $10 and then having to cut them up,  they were able to just crack the door and hand the firewood cutter a voucher. 

Also,  last winter was very mild and the propane prices were reasonable.  So people with both wood and propane heat just didn't mess with the firewood.
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Bibbyman

Way to dry for that now!  Even the weeds are suffering.
Wood-Mizer LT40HDE25 Super 25hp 3ph with Command Control and Accuset.
Sawing since '94

WDH

My County is on a permanent burn ban until October.
Woodmizer LT40HDD35, John Deere 2155, Kubota M5-111, Kubota L2501, Nyle L53 Dehumidification Kiln, and a passion for all things with leafs, twigs, and bark.  hamsleyhardwood.com

sandhills

I'd be scared to light a cigarette right now.

Bibbyman

Our pond is real low.   The farmer neighbors have 18 open heffers almost a year old on pasture here.

They ask if they could set a stock waterer up near the house and hook on to our deep well.  They came over with a backhoe and dug down about five feet in one place and it was bone dry.
Wood-Mizer LT40HDE25 Super 25hp 3ph with Command Control and Accuset.
Sawing since '94

beenthere

Has the creek nearby dried up too?
south central Wisconsin
It may be that my sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others

weisyboy

i have a pit to burn in and about an acre of bare dirt arround the mill, the fire pit is in the middle.

in australia sawmills are legaly allowed to burn waste any time without a permit, even if there is a fire ban.

i also have a 4wd fire truck and fire trailer handy.

i keep my bottom flitches (some call them half backs) the round bit with 1 flat side. that are over 1.5" thick and people use them for all sorts of things.

$100/ ute load
god bless america god save the queen god defend new zealand and thank christ for Australia
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oakiemac

Weisyboy, I like your quote at the bottom of your posts "god bless america god save the queen god defend new zealand and thank christ for Australia
;D
Mobile Demension sawmill, Bobcat 873 loader, 3 dry kilns and a long "to do" list.

laffs

I sell all of mine as firewood probably 40 cord a year so far. I also put a wood boiler in my house and burn slabs in spring summer and fall, still have all the heating oil i bought last fall and dont intend to buy any for the next 3 years.
timber harvester,tinberjack230,34hp kubota,job ace excavator carpenter tools up the yingyang,

Solomon

I hate to let anthing go to waste but if it's ten cents holding up a dollar, I will throw a match on it in a heartbeat.
Time and Money,  If you have the one, you rarely have the other.

The Path to Salvation is narrow, and the path to damnnation is wide.

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