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8th January 2014, 06:55 PM #16Retired
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8th January 2014, 08:39 PM #17GOLD MEMBER
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I grew up in Tully, and my parents still live there: I never sent a bill in for any of the emergency work I did, not even for replacement chains (and I wrecked a few in the first few days in the town itself cutting backyard trees up).
Could be worse: I was accused by the disaster management mob of "profiteering from peoples misery" when I stopped and started pulling in sawlogs, and requested permission to salvage what I could off council land for scantling timber. That hurt!!!
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8th January 2014, 11:23 PM #18Skwair2rownd
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9th January 2014, 09:50 AM #19
John I can sympathise with you & like you I am not a preservationist. I firmly believe that that timber should have been recovered and used as high value cabinet timbers. Only problem was the lack of available milling capacity after Mr Richardson decimated the timber industry and many local families like the Rankines.
My dad was a registered builder in Cairns so I accompanied him to JM Johnston's latter Rankines mill at Stratford, saw the Hancock, Rankine, and Capricornia ply mills operating in Cairns as a kid. We built many homes with silky oak frames and weatherboards which I now see as a terrible waste but at the time it was a practical use & like you said recently you have to pay the bills.
I firmly hope that we can still get access to at least some HQ timbers from private resources and that we still have some viable mills to process them. Small millers like Ron O'Brien in Prossy really struggle to remain viable these days with all the regs, & WHS etc. A dying breed.
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9th January 2014, 03:16 PM #20
I checked out this thread the other day and conscience has got the better of me. So I would just like to go on record and say "It wasn't me, it couldn't have been me, I wasn't there, I've never been there! I swear it wasn't me."
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9th January 2014, 07:00 PM #21Skwair2rownd
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