essexboy
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Reged: 30/11/2004
Posts: 166
Loc: Essex
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I have found that the guide on the Robbins Timber website is useful for suitability for purpose.
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misty56
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Reged: 16/01/2008
Posts: 74
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I suspect you're talking price ex-timber merchant. If you check the oak prices ex-sawmill for comparison I think you'll notice a difference. Most sawmills will need you to be taking more than a couple of 4x2 sticks, mark you.
The Brazil Mahog in the trade is not illegally logged; Brazil, under the CITES rules, is able to allow a certain amount of felling licences. This practise has been protested by several conservation groups, but the argument is that if land is being cleared anyway, it makes no sense to burn valuable timber rather than sell it. Whether this procedure is being abused I would leave to you to examine the available information and form your own opinion. I avoid tropical hardwoods as much as
I can, 's just me.
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Gordonmc
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Reged: 19/09/2001
Posts: 1570
Loc: h Riddon
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It might seem inconsistent but I back all measures to prevent non-sustainable forestry.
Some of the circumventions of CITES, such as UK imports of Indonesian furniture made from illegally felled and smuggled Laotian teak, are a scandal.
I am not too happy with the idea that if mahog is felled to clear land in Brazil to make way for burger cows then that's ok.
If we had paid more attention to the indiscriminate clearing of rainforest and temperate woodland in decades past I might now be able to buy a decent bit of mahogany or spar-length Douglas for my elderly boat.
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misty56
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Reged: 16/01/2008
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I lived in France for a long time and if there is a lesson in How It Should Be Done for sustainable forestry management, the French teach it.
It remains to be seen whether their system, evolved over centuries, will survive the changes currently happening in French rural life, but I very much hope so.
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Topcat47
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Reged: 02/06/2005
Posts: 1059
Loc: Solent, UK
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Thanks guys, I'll keep this lot on file for future reference.
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