I know you said recent, but I've not shipped anything recently. This is a not-recent story.

I hauled a pile of coon to a local travelling buyer in IA. All green. It was December. He offered me significantly less than I'd been expecting. I hemmed and hawed a bit because I was counting on that money for Christmas shopping but didn't like the price. He'd divided the coon into 7 piles. $20, $15, $12, $8, $4, $1, $0. I was about to walk away when I decided to ask him if he would buy the better coon and let me take back the $0/$1 coons. I figured he'd say no, but he surprised me and said sure. So I sold him the decent stuff and took the junk home. I averaged $13-something on the stuff he'd bought.

Well I got the junk coon put up and sent in for the next NAFA sale. When the sale rolled around that pile of coon that had been valued at $1 or less averaged $14-something. More than my good coon. I was sick that I hadn't sent them all in.

But, as others have said, it's all hit and miss and just depends on the timing of the markets as well as if local buyers have a particular need for certain furs and are willing to pay for it.

Got 4x 5"x5" one ways, 4x 4"x4" double door gravity door squirrel traps, and 4x soffit nose cones made up.. thinking of making a couple of coon sized one-ways also.. what yall think.

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This is very common when cutting shingle blocks. Often sawed on all sides. Shingle mills like it better than splitting as there is less waste especially with eady wood. Shingle block cutters usually cut out the back of the sprocket cover so it doesn't plug up.
I also used to rip a little bit of it at work when I was short of TP. Stay away from pitchy wood in that case.

LOL,,,, just dont park were you are not allowed.

We have been running 3 tow trucks there for 20 years for the 4th and for sturgues.......Paid for the trucks every year....almost..

Yeah...ya ain't gonna see the "real" thing on the internet...

Get a plumber out there asap. You should never have copper flex carrying gas in a crawl space. They are for supply lines only. Should be black pipe or the yellow flex.

He met up with Cheech and Chong.

had a guy in ohio that gave me 10.00 for roosters. he had a old house trailer he used as a pen. grab the roosters and throw them in alive. he said when the snake is hungry it'll eat!

Brewers are 16-8 after beating the Pirates again today. Now a nice home stand.

Bryce

Came home from play practice tonight and tractor lights in the fields all over. There will be a long wait for many soils in our area when a lot of rain hits the clay.

Bryce

Steve check out this auction website.

https://auctionohio.com/lots#YXVjdGlvbltzdGF0dXNdPWFsbCZsb3Rba2V5d29yZHNdPUZyZWV6ZXI.

You can buy most older freezers on it for under $20.00. Many get no bids and can be bought for a dollar plus an 11 cent buyer's premium.

Keith

Not prime but still good for the craft market. Then there's the quill too.