Saw Bucks Newsletter

T-shirt Contest!
Design and Win

ound

the corner

and head in

2009 Saw Bucks will

celebrate

the

New Year

with

a Design

Contest to

develop a

n official

Saw Bucks T-Shirt. The

challenge

will be to

design a T-Shirt

that

represents what

we are all about.

Create a new

slogan

logo

(or use the one we have)

you can

add

photos or

graphics

of your

choice

The winning entry will be decided by a vote of our

members and

become the official

Saw Bucks T- Shirt for 2009.

Open to all members

entries will be

posted for review

and a poll will be

taken to choose the most popular shirt. Each member will have the

opportunity to enter

one design and

make one vote. The winning entry will receive a pair

free shirts.

aw Bucks shirts

will

be printed up and available to

all members at the actual printing and shipping cost. Everyone is

encouraged to participate. Click

here

for

omplete details

Welcome, December New Members - Rank
just_sawing             Mon Dec 01,        New Member
Jeffk                         Sun Dec 07         Buckaroo
sawman704           Sun Dec 14          New Member
BillI                           Wed Dec 24        New Member
Woodsman             Fri Dec 26           Buckaroo
greeneden              Sun Dec 28          New Member
Grizzly_B                 Mon Dec 29        New Member
customsawyer         Wed Dec 31       New Member
loggingusa              Wed Dec 31       New Member

Stand up and be counted!       Current Poll Results
What kind of mill do you own?                            Timber King = 45%
Best Performance Blades                                   Wood-Mizer = 33%
How many employees do you have?                  None, except myself = 100%
Best Chainsaws Overall                                       Husqvarna = 55%
Weekend Warriors or Full Timers?                     Full time for profit = 85%

Note: Not all members have placed a vote. Stand up and be counted!
                                           See all Polls

Windfall and Hazard Trees
Winter always brings storm damage and the
removal of hazard trees that threaten homes and
buildings. Weather after they fall or during
removal for safety these trees make up a huge
amount of timber that can be salvaged and used
for many types of building projects. Taking the
time to process this material is mainly the
choice of homeowners who are giving more
thought to how this can contribute to slow global
warming and the demand for clear cut forest
products. For sawyers looking for logs this time
of year can bring many hours of work. As
Backwoods Sawyer notes: "The wind blew, a
limb hit a house, I got the call I have been
waiting for. Three Oaks (pictured above) and a
Madrone tree are being removed for safety
reasons." Each year more and more urban trees
are saved from the landfill and fireplace
because small sawmills are expanding and
ready to work for homeowners and business to
turn urban logs into usable lumber.

                                     Three Steps to Success
      Here are three steps I follow when I am determined to achieve a particular goal.

First
You must choose or decide exactly what it is you want to do. Sounds easy, right? Knowing what this truly
is can be more difficult to pin down than you think. If you haven't made up your mind about something it will
never get off the ground (failure to launch syndrome). Make a firm decision on what it is you will commit to
doing. By having clear goals it will be easier to keep focused and avoid falling off track.

Second
Find out what it will take to achieve and accomplish the objective you have made a decision about! In
other words go to school or seek out the information you will need. Learn what the physical tasks will be
or the knowledge required to achieve your goal. No matter what you have decided to do in life there will
be information out there that will help you learn exactly what you will need to do. Investigating and learning
is the key to doing things you don't know how to do. Explore, look around, ask, search and seek out the
people who have answers to what you don't know. This will lead you down the road towards what you
need to do.

Third
JUST DO IT! This one sounds easy too. If you have really decided on what you are going to do and you
have found out how, then all that's left is to do it. Take action. Now that you know what to do, follow through
and use the methods, techniques or plans you have learned or discovered. No matter how much you learn
it will be useless unless you put it into practice. Take it to the streets, get yourself on track and strut your
stuff, put yourself out there. A couple of sayings that I like are, "If you are going to talk the talk you must
walk the walk" another one is "Words is Turds, Action is Traction".

"The person who really wants to do something finds a way-- the other person finds an excuse."

       Try something new this year and see how this method can help to reach your goals!

This past year Saw Bucks has been filled not only
with tons of information sharing about saw milling
but also with laughter and friendly teasing. It has
been fun to watch the site grow in size as well as
content. This first season has brought together
Sawyers who have a wide variety of skills and
talent from all parts of the world. I have learned a
great deal about how others operate their mills
and businesses and believe this to be true for
most of our members.

Looking ahead I see the unprecedented times we
live in today pose obstacles and opportunities
never before seen by the sawmill and timber
industry. Cutting edge technology combined with
21st century demand for eco friendly, sustainable
forest products will bring increasing public
attention to small family owned portable and
stationary sawmills.

I look forward to seeing what this new year will
bring.

Tree Bones
AKA Ron Trout