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<v 0>When we're getting the year after year of quality timber from the</v>

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same area, they're doing something right.

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If you're looking at it and the bottom limbs are starting to die off,

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that tree's ready to be cut. If you manage your timber, you take the trees out

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that need cut, in turn, the little ones,

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the sapling seedlings and stuff that are coming up just take off.

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There's always new growth. I respect the wood.

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I really do. I

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don't like to see it wasted or pushed away.

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There's a lot of pride in that stuff.

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When we start out with a board, we plane that. We ripped it,

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the scrap goes through the chipper, and it is ground into sawdust,

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which blows into the silo.

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We got a wood burning boiler, which in turn generates steam.

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We use that steam for our glue press, and we use that steam for heating the

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factory, and we use that steam for drying and lumber in our kilns.

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John Boos and Company, we've done this since I've been here.

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I've been here right at 40 years. Nothing goes in trash can.

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If we have excess sawdust, if we don't need, we sell it to the local farmers.

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I have three to 400 head of dairy cattle, and they need a lot of bedding

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and it works out really well.

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It's dry and they're using it for fertilizer and ends up back

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on the field and nothing goes to waste there.

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It all gets recycled.