Sawmill manufacturer WoodMizer spotlights Martin Goebel of Goebel Furniture and Roger Branson of Red Rooster Sawmill. Goebel will receive the Young Wood Pro Award April 15, 2015 at Cabinets & Closets Expo.
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my motto is proverbs 2620
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where there is no would the fire goes out and i'm talking about.
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party
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i'm talking about the fire in here
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on Roger branson Red Rooster song now the opportunity to work with trees is
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always been
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forefront me but until about eight years ago when I
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bought this what lies male generally become real I saw lottery
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wasted that's all I'm turned into far word are tough ground into just March
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and Ed always disappoint me to see a really big extraneous
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more or less to me go to waste that lumber need to be used
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for the most part ninety percent what I males coming from the urban forest
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I do a lot award for
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our municipalities lights in Webster Groves
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in Richmond Heights Saint Charles County so I have a lot of customers
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universities
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I I've mail from Washington University some really cool trees ANC storage stuff
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it's amazing where that word count:
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but they get the same thing for me again them
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the best job I can new form Roger I
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somewhat found each other based on being the oddball Sorbie like being
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the ones that take it a little too seriously you know we weren't
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weekend warriors go phone company furniture
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is located in the city of saint louis were about 20 blocks
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offer the Mississippi River and we've been in business now four years
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up roger is I absolutely would sell it just like myself
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and we're doing it because it was a way of life and when you meet someone like
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that
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you know there's a forty-five year age gap between us a kindred spirit kinda
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thing
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and it's a matter of what excites him
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excites me and a lot of that is
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just getting out there and seeing what we can find
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Martin makes some really nice stuff
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he's one of my customers and he wants
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high and long chair Ian quartersawn white oak moss
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and I just always exciting to watch inside mystery what's on the bar
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and sometimes I get some really cool surprise well I was joke about
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going out to the sawmill and have anything better than christmas because
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you're able to open up these logs and you're able to look back in time
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and that's a start the process it truly is
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so the the birthing above the piece of furniture or the projects we have in the
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future
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he sees things in the logs and boards
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sometimes I don't see it you know I had learned his
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way i'm looking in its its
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he he's very efficient way he knows what the end product
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me I just know what the end product when it comes off the song
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he sees it as a table or bench so
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and he's very good the logs are out there
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there's millions and millions and millions a log going to waste
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every day its shame
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Big Walnut Tree stuff like this
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around it up
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and its it's like taking that primary ever that nice
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T bone steak and then ran into hamburger
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hamburgers good I sure wouldn't want to ground all the steaks and hamburger and
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that's what's happened to live our trees
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it's all there nights you just cannot get out there and would monitors a way
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to get it out
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with Roger it's always very high quality
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and he's got a womanizer hydraulic that allows me to bring one other guy
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whose mid-thirties it can muscle around the timber and Roger can just cut all
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day
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back and forth its very consistent it's very clean
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it's very efficient and it's a good process that we've just cultivated over
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10 years
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hang out one thing I like about mark enough right to work he horse these
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boards and picking up Karen stack 'em
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decker low demand Hilo it is over and so that the
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front wheels are just barely on the ground but
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he's a worker need if he's not going to be able to work the any shoulder
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operation on
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he brought somebody else it could so it's nice to have some might work to
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work with no it won't work yes
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that's really the
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my favorite part of the job you know going out to the sawmill
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rolling something on there that is covered in
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worms and dirt and Hansen really making it
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transform you know you something that had a life that is so
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incredible beyond where I ever got in the process
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you know those two hundred years in some cases a history before I ever got there
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and now it's up to us to
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take that two hundred years and either make it live on
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or on our some way
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what I find is the tree only to live so long
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they do make a nice piece of furniture are nice wood turning or something
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that peace piece that's made out one large tables maybe
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around two hundred years
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so the word out lives the tree by far
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the majority people buying our furniture
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are buying generational pieces furniture so it will mature with their families
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just as their families expected
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with regard to Roger its all about efficiency
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and safety you know I don't worry about him doing things that are you put me in
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jeopardy
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and we're gonna have a successful milling day if any by asking what kinda
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milling
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castle four times and there's only one only one kind
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atwood what else can I tell you I mean I'm
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enjoy my would not turn on joyride
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