Bridge cap materials

[Bill Ballard]

At 11:50 PM -0400 10/11/02, Stephen Birkett wrote:
>Dale writes:
>>With really good supply's of maple almost extinct
>
>Come now, Dale. This sounds like doomsday stuff to me. I agree the 
>supply is low at the moment, hence the exhorbitant prices, but this 
>sort of ecological and economic swinging has been going on in the 
>forest product department for centuries. It's no big deal. A bridge 
>cap hardly uses a lot of maple. I haven't noticed it being difficult 
>to get good quality rock maple from my supplier - I can get as much 
>as I want whenever I want (as long as I don't mind paying for it).

Remember Stephen, that the indigenous hardwood in Dale's neighborhood 
is the date palm. <g>

Bill Ballard RPT
NH Chapter, P.T.G.

"A man who tells the truth is bound to be found out sooner or later."
     ...........Uncle Harry in "The Tailor of Panama"
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