'Lumberworkers' A new forum name?

[Greg Ward]

This is a 'woodworker forum'.

But to some, 'wood' is and outmoded term, (and is anyway too damn expensive) and the concept of 'work' is anathema to many of the forum collective.
So we need a new name.

First WOOD.
'Wood' doesn't cover the broad range of fine timbers, burls, slabs, veneers and blanks avialable today. 'Woodhead', 'wooden' and 'wood duck' are all terms of denegration, and therefore 'woodies' by association is an embarrasing term as well. The Beatles burnt it in Norway, Robin Hood lived in one, stoves swallow it, so the confusing word wood is OUT.

(First a digression....... Price as a negaive with wood..... Consider the short history of a Rosewood turning blank.
First the drive to the Border range. A slow discussion with the propoerty owner, maybe a cup of tea. A drive around for an overview of the rainforests, then a stiff walk downhill on a slope that somehow will need a climbing rope to ascend later in the day. Look for fallen logs..... There! scurry through the snarl of lawyer vine. Damn! only a brush box (they last forever).... what about that one??? 4 foot across! Great. 100 years old, left by the old timer cutters.... and rotten! Wander further. Look, finally the twist of a small roswood branch, and over there... a 3 foot log that looks just fine.
That's the easy part. Arrange a dozer and snig it out without damaging too many trees. Snig it to a road where it can be loaded on a truck and taken to wherever it can be processed into ever smaller and smaller pieces, rosewood being generally useless when it comes to cutting a solid flitch. Pay the farmer. Dry for 12 months. Process to size, sand or thickness, load onto a truck, drive to a show, unload, haggle, haggle. At last $25.00! And this is considered expensive? So be it.)

Back to the point. Wood is a negative, so we need a new word to cover the range of products that all 'woodies' ...(sorry)... use.

What of WORK?
Forum readers apparently also consider this an insulting term, a term totally philosophically impossible to meet with their principles.
I however consider that 'working' is a fine word. It is the gentle abuse professional craftsmen apply to leather to make whips or the blacksmith to generate Toledo steel for fine swords. 'Work' is the art of the carver or the toolsmith or the French polisher...... Yes, or course the term is abused, Blame Marx for that, not Howard, but it is still valid within this forum so it stays!

So I propose that the new forum name be...... LUMBERWORKER!
Rhymes with slumber, so meets forum member's aim in life, as well as the process of contemplation associated with the next project, without having to buy any wood (sorry lumber) and assists in the getting to sleep where noctournal wood sawing is more accpeted by the bedpartner than the real dusty thing.

Open to suggestions however....

Regards
Greg

[Rookie]

My Driver, 3 wood and 5 wood are all made of metal, but they're still woods. My irons are not iron but they're still irons

When I hear the term lumberworker, I think of guys who work in the "timber" industry, cutting down trees.

I like tradition. I learnt "woodwork" at school, and it's the same thing I'm doing now.

FWIW

[knucklehead]

I can't help it


I'm a lumberjack and I'm OK
I sleep all night and I work all day.

Chorus:
He's a lumberjack and he's OK
He sleeps all night and he works all day.

I cut down trees, I eat my lunch
I go to the lavatory.
On Wednesdays I go shopping and have buttered scones for tea

Mounties:
He cut down trees, he eat his lunch
He go to the lavatory.
On Wednesdays he go shopping and has buttered scones for tea.

Chorus:
He's a lumberjack and he's OK
He sleeps all night and he works all day.

I cut down trees, I skip and jump
I like to press wild flowers.
I put on women's clothing and hang around in bars.

Mounties:
He cuts down trees, he skips and jumps
He likes to press wild flowers.
He puts on women's clothing and hangs around in bars?!

Chorus:
He's a lumberjack and he's OK
He sleeps all night and he works all day.

I cut down trees, I wear high heels
Suspenders and a bra.
I wish I'd been a girlie, just like my dear papa!

Mounties:
He cuts down trees, he wears high heels?!
Suspenders...and a bra?!

...He's a lumberjack and he's OK
He sleeps all night and he works all day.

...He's/I'm a lumberjack and he's/I'm OK
He/I sleep all night and he/I work all day.

[Wongo]

I am lost.

[NewLou]

Aaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrhhhhhhhh....................No No nO No No!!!!

Pancakes@Aussiewoodwork Forums.........Anyone!!!!

REgards Lou

[DavidG]

Lumber is where my back hurts.
So are you suggesting this forum is nothing but a pain in the ....

[Stubchain]

Lumberworker sounds very "American" to me and should be something to do with the back. Woodworker is great because it sums up what it is. I also prefer the term Forestry Worker.

Next we will be asked to work in feet and inches, when I see Norm and David Marks saying things like 2 feet three and thirteen sixteenths of an inch makes me cringe. Metric is so much better. Coming from and old imperial man that's saying something.

I learnt to cut down trees in the Sahara Desert, there are no trees in the Sahara I hear you say, well not now there ain't.

[silentC]

Sorry Greg but it wont catch on: 'Lumber' has far to many seppo connotations for the likes of people around here. Besides, 'lumber' is just as restrictive in application as 'wood', if not more so.

[TEEJAY]

I'd have to get a new hat - no way!!!:mad:

And knucklehead you beat me to it!!

[Greg Ward]

All lumberworkers have an old dusty set of golf clubs in the garage.
But I find it almost impossible to believe that any member of this forum actually uses them. Sure irons, can be used to rake coals out of a wood fire, and woods are good on those occassional brown snakes that come in to keep warm around the heater that was forgotten to be switched off.
But really, if we turned all golf courses into red cedar forests or even kauri pine, think of the benefit for future generations, They sell golf memberships, well, we could sell indidual cedar trees and forum members could have picnics around their own lumber and we would have less need of lumber liniment as well.
Regards
Greg

[TEEJAY]

See I knew he wasn't serious


Your not an arts student are you??

[Greg Ward]

My son has the look, but he's doing engineering.
Art students have their place, usually in Canberra, or in running ultra modern retaurants, but no, I'm just a country boy, lost in Sydney, pining after the bush where I get the wander and lost or lust, sorry.... wanderlust.
I just think that wood...er timber... er lumber gets little attention in this forum, and needs a profile lift.
I know there's nothing like the real thing, but photos must work otherwise they wouldn't sell Playboy magazies.
So Let's see more naked lumber.
Regards
Greg

[bitingmidge]

:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

lumberwork is an anagram for "womb lurker"

:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

P

[Gumby]

leaping from tree to mighty tree..........and we all, sing, sing, siiiing....


Oh..... (what knucklehead said)

Now i won't be able to get it out of my head all night !

[Sturdee]

Just like a politician.

Because he doesn't like it that we don't talk enough about his woods he wants to give it an artificial name change to lumber thinking that will change everything. :eek:

The only sensible suggestion was doing away with golf courses and plant trees instead.


Peter.