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by J.R. Holiday
Wed Nov 28, 2012 3:15 pm
Forum: Jam Session
Topic: need help finding a job!
Replies: 2
Views: 3775

need help finding a job!

I am a very frustrated individual right now. I have a lot of bills to pay, and no real marketable job skills. Don't have the time or money to go back to school now. It's not that I've never held a job, in fact, I always have had a job other than a few months of unemployment a while ago. I have an in...
by J.R. Holiday
Tue Jun 26, 2012 11:23 am
Forum: Wood and Materials Q&A
Topic: What to do with "junk" wood
Replies: 9
Views: 11436

Re: What to do with "junk" wood

I used to work at a cabinet shop. Everytime the wood supply truck came, the individual stacks of wood were always separated with rough cut white oak beams, approx 2" x 3" x 48". These things were usually very mangled and splintery, but they were tough, tough, tough! I make a couple of...
by J.R. Holiday
Thu Jun 21, 2012 10:41 pm
Forum: Wood and Materials Q&A
Topic: uses for "Mountain Laurel" wood (kalmia latifolia) Eastern Mt. Laurel
Replies: 6
Views: 8625

Re: uses for "Mountain Laurel" wood (kalmia latifolia) Eastern Mt. Laurel

yeah, google mountain laurel kalmia latifolia and you will see photos. It really is like a cross between a bush and a hearty wisteria vine. Sometimes ML will grow upright to be 8-10' high, but most of the time is sprawls out over the ground like a woody vined ivy. The largest diameters I will be abl...
by J.R. Holiday
Thu Jun 21, 2012 7:09 pm
Forum: Wood and Materials Q&A
Topic: uses for "Mountain Laurel" wood (kalmia latifolia) Eastern Mt. Laurel
Replies: 6
Views: 8625

uses for "Mountain Laurel" wood (kalmia latifolia) Eastern Mt. Laurel

Hello all, I live in southern New Jersey in the midst of a HUGE Moutain Laurel covered property. I have been looking at this stuff for years and wondering what to do with it. I recently read that in the old days, tobacco pipes were made from the root briars, and that the trunks of the tree (which us...

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