The marketing genius of the lumber industry, to create zero waste from the logging of America's best renewable resource, while at the same time retuning a profit off of something that was historically burned in a teepee burner. Simply brilliant.
A few years ago, Mark Emmerson of Sierra Pacific Industries told an audience at the University of California School of Natural Resouces that his company's highest profit margins came from the sale of decorative bark. Imagine that.
Henry Ford did that but he created charcoal briquettes that he distributed with new Fords and created an American BBG tradition...not crap furniture. He sold the operation and equipment to one of his VPs...Kingsford. The company still uses the same machinery.
I worked in a grocery warehouse for 25 years. You name it, I've seen it dropped from the top racks. The worst? Liquid detergent or dish soap. It's a pure bitch to clean up. After you get the excess scooped up with shovels and go to scrub it, it just makes the floor even more slippery, then the next day you have to do it again because it seeped out from all the nooks and crannies it splashed into when it fell.
Anything spilled in the 0F freezer is a nightmare. Move everything out, let the temperature come up to ambient, scrub like hell. I saw a guy put a fork through 4, 55 gallon drums of unfrozen blueberry concentrate. It immediately froze to everything it touched it took 2 full shifts to clean up the mess.
#3 Jibe Ho ! Several people weren't paying attention, especially the one on the tiller who should have loudly informed everybody on board what was about to happen, then modulated the turn to make it happen less suddenly than it did.
#2 Well, she was smart enough to slide off the back. #3 Man overboard drill - and an illustration that there is good seamanship and bad seamanship, but there aren't any accidents. #4 And everyone being stone cold sober... just how are you going to get her out of there? #5 A harbinger of things to come. #6 How he got there is one thing. Just how he'll get out is something else. #8 Any little boy who played with an erector set could tell you not to do that. #10 Just what you'll do next to fix this one is several stories above my pay grade.
#2 A recurring theme seems to people who are unable to control motorbikes, it's really not that difficult. #3 I don't know that much about sailing but isn't tacking the practice of moving against the direction of the wind by moving in a zigzag pattern? Doesn't said practice involve the sail moving across just like that on a regular basis? Maybe this was a case of not telling the newby that he is standing in a really stupid place and filming what happens. Stonyground.
#8 is why I want a very large workshop. I would rather build many of my own shelves and cabinets out of solid wood than trust chinesium particle boards.
#5- You know you are in trouble when your first step into the real world is that one. Welcome to my life. The good news is that you can work your way out of a bad start. Work being the operative word.
#8 Particle board or as someone told me years ago, Sawdust Wood!
ReplyDeleteWood waste, glued together under pressure.
DeleteThe marketing genius of the lumber industry, to create zero waste from the logging of America's best renewable resource, while at the same time retuning a profit off of something that was historically burned in a teepee burner. Simply brilliant.
A few years ago, Mark Emmerson of Sierra Pacific Industries told an audience at the University of California School of Natural Resouces that his company's highest profit margins came from the sale of decorative bark. Imagine that.
Henry Ford did that but he created charcoal briquettes that he distributed with new Fords and created an American BBG tradition...not crap furniture. He sold the operation and equipment to one of his VPs...Kingsford. The company still uses the same machinery.
DeleteActually the plant was in Kingsford. They made frames for Model T's. It is still there, next to the big trash bin company of the same name.
DeleteThe family name came first, then the town. Here are the details. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsford_%28charcoal%29
Delete#5 and #7 look very familiar reminds me of someone 🤔
ReplyDelete#8 - IKEA
ReplyDeleteMy first thought.
Delete#3 Should have used the preventer...
ReplyDelete#5 Joe Biden did not find that amusing
ReplyDeleteSee #10, now imagine that with 5 gallon buckets of sliced pickles at a food distribution warehouse. 250-300 buckets IIRC.
ReplyDelete- WDS
I worked in a grocery warehouse for 25 years. You name it, I've seen it dropped from the top racks.
DeleteThe worst? Liquid detergent or dish soap. It's a pure bitch to clean up. After you get the excess scooped up with shovels and go to scrub it, it just makes the floor even more slippery, then the next day you have to do it again because it seeped out from all the nooks and crannies it splashed into when it fell.
Anything spilled in the 0F freezer is a nightmare. Move everything out, let the temperature come up to ambient, scrub like hell. I saw a guy put a fork through 4, 55 gallon drums of unfrozen blueberry concentrate. It immediately froze to everything it touched it took 2 full shifts to clean up the mess.
Delete#3 Jibe Ho ! Several people weren't paying attention, especially the one on the tiller who should have loudly informed everybody on board what was about to happen, then modulated the turn to make it happen less suddenly than it did.
ReplyDeleteThat makes the rash assumption that the launch wasn't on purpose.
DeleteWhat the hell fun is that?
DeleteSail is luffing really badly, no one paying attention. Shit like this is why you wear a vest if you're on deck.
DeleteMany sailors died from a "jibe." Sorry, I couldn't resist.
Delete#2 Well, she was smart enough to slide off the back.
ReplyDelete#3 Man overboard drill - and an illustration that there is good seamanship and bad seamanship, but there aren't any accidents.
#4 And everyone being stone cold sober... just how are you going to get her out of there?
#5 A harbinger of things to come.
#6 How he got there is one thing. Just how he'll get out is something else.
#8 Any little boy who played with an erector set could tell you not to do that.
#10 Just what you'll do next to fix this one is several stories above my pay grade.
3. "NOT FUNNY, CARL!"
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#5 Graduates, files law suit.
ReplyDelete#2 A recurring theme seems to people who are unable to control motorbikes, it's really not that difficult.
ReplyDelete#3 I don't know that much about sailing but isn't tacking the practice of moving against the direction of the wind by moving in a zigzag pattern? Doesn't said practice involve the sail moving across just like that on a regular basis? Maybe this was a case of not telling the newby that he is standing in a really stupid place and filming what happens.
Stonyground.
Tacking is the ultra tame version of jibing. Jibing is tacking but downwind.
Delete9 was it her pits or her morning breath?
ReplyDelete#8 is why I want a very large workshop. I would rather build many of my own shelves and cabinets out of solid wood than trust chinesium particle boards.
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#5- You know you are in trouble when your first step into the real world is that one. Welcome to my life. The good news is that you can work your way out of a bad start. Work being the operative word.
ReplyDelete#3 That’s why it is called a boom !!!
ReplyDelete#1: At least he was hit with the cold end.
ReplyDelete#2 Dude must have seen something he really liked.
ReplyDeleteEither way I think that left a mark.
Delete#5 Tough act to follow.
ReplyDeleteI love that #5 was able to laugh at herself. You never see Senile Joe laughing after his man, many, many falls!!!
ReplyDeleteIKEA wins again.
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