Thanks for that link to that article, John. It was a very interesting piece of news and I used it just now as part of my (annual) letter to the editor promoting US adoption of the metric system. I used your logger's situation as a very real and current example of why we need to go metric. I hope the editor of the Jacksonville FL paper will see fit to chose my letter as one of those that is printed in the Letters to the Editor this week.
Bill Hooper 1810 mm tall Fernandina Beach, Florida, USA ========================== SImplification Begins With SI. ========================== On Oct 6 , at 6:43 AM, John M. Steele wrote: > A logger in California complains that the lumber marker is way down except > for exports to Asia. He can only sell whole logs for export as local mills > don't process metric-dimensioned lumber, and that is hurting his business: > http://agalert.com/fromthefields/?id=3836 > "But we do send logs to the export markets in the Pacific Rim. That has > helped push up log prices, although it would be better if we had an export > lumber mill and had the capacity to process the logs that we're not > exporting. An export mill processes dimensional lumber using the metric > system. > Our mills up here on the North Coast use English measure when processing > logs. British Columbia and Washington state process for the export market, > but we haven't been able to do that."
