A great source for white cedar....

John Bourbon

John Bourbon

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Hi all. I just got back from picking up some cedar timbers to use as decoy wood, and I thought I would pass along where I got it in case you are ever up this way and want to pick some up.

Collen Goodridge runs Goodridge Lumber Inc. in Albany Vt, phone number 802-755-6298. She warned me on the phone that they were still in winter there and that I should come up expecting it to be so. She wasn't kidding with fresh snow on the ground...

I bought a 10' 6x8, a pair of 8' 6x8's and an 8' 8x8. Her price is $1.20 a board foot and we picked through some piles to find wood that was damn near clear cedar.

She doesn't ship, but if you are up this way on vacation and need/want some good cedar, thats a great place to go.

John
 
good to know john. i have a guy down the road sawing up some cedar i think im gonna go over sometime and try to find some decent end blocks and see if i can take some logs over from the farm cause i know of a couple of trees i have that if ther're not rotten in the middle would make me a bunch of birds.

eddie
 
Hi Thomas. Is it dry enough to carve? There's the rub. I think so. I phrase it that way, cause the piles sat out all winter, and the timbers I picked from the top of the piles were considerable heavier than the ones buried down in the pile (from several feet of snow pack). When Collen and I were looking at the various pallets of wood, I asked her which ones had been there longer? She pointed to several pallets and said that those ones had been there all winter.

The timbers I chose were from down in the pallets, not the ones on top. When I got them home, I stacked them under the porch, out of the weather, properly stickered. Get Colleen to point out a pallet thats been there since last year and grab timbers from 2 layers down, and I think you will be alright to carve this season.

John
 
thanks John...have wood for now, VT cedar could sit here for a year, and I do some clinics up in Vermont come autumn. Might just work out time/travel wise.
Tom
 
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