Re: Permanent Shavings Shortage in Northeast?

["Sandy Bolinger" <bolinger@bigsky.net>]

No shaving shortage here in Montana...They're cutting down "quadrillions" of
board feet of burnt timber....lumber mills everywhere here are having a
heyday....we pay $2.50 for a bale of shavings..but there are people who
deliver dump truck loads for MUCH cheaper.Guess you'd best move to Montana.
;o)

----- Original Message -----
From: Linda B. Merims <lbm@ici.net>
To: <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 1:05 PM
Subject: RC: Permanent Shavings Shortage in Northeast?


> TINERB*...
>
> I live in Massachusetts.  My feed store (Ferestien's in Foxboro)
> has been having trouble for about four months getting shavings.
> Ferestien's sells over 10,000 bales of shavings a month.
> Their primary wholesale supplier is Paley's, with secondary and even
> tertiary backup suppliers.  The story was that it was just due
> to a slow-down in the building industry due to the season, but
> the dealer began to doubt this since there actually *isn't* much
> of a slow-down in building and the difficulty they have been
> encountering is more severe than any in at least 10 years.
>
> Well, Mr. Ferestien finally did some calling and has found out
> what the real problem is.  Evidently the Russians have undercut
> the American lumber market.  Builders are getting their lumber
> cheaper from dealers supplied from Siberian lumber mills.  Over 40
> mills in New Hampshire and Maine have stopped milling and closed their
> doors since fall, thus cutting off the supply of this by-product of
> the US lumber industry.  Such mills as are still operating are having
> their wood chips and shavings snapped up by the manufactured lumber
> (oriented strand board, etc.) makers, who also rely on this
> by-product of milling trees.
>
> Mr. Ferestien said that he is arranging with his supplier to
> open a mill to do nothing but produce shavings for him in the
> next few weeks, but the mill will only generate about 4,000 to
> 5,000 bales per month, not the 10,000 he needs.
>
> I'm wondering if the days of $3.50 shavings bales--which has
> been the price for Paley's shavings in Massachusetts for most
> of the past five years--are over forever.
>
> Are other people in the Northeast having a similar problem?
> How about the Southeast and far West?
>
> Linda B. Merims
> lbm@ici.net
> Massachusetts, USA
>
>
> *This Is Not Endurance Related, But...
>
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