Filthy Riches

[Emiliano Achaval]

I now have a big screen TV with an Apple TV in my shop. Today I had a Netflix show on "Filthy Riches" One of the jobs is a group of friends hunting for burls. Amazing huge burls from hard to reach locations. I sort of watch while I'm sanding... I think I might go back and watch it again. Like with all the weird things they find, like some kind of worms and Ginseng, they put a $ value, I think they are exaggerating the price, maybe they are not selling them to woodturners, maybe for veneer they can get those prices... I think I will email the producers and tell them I have a "filthy" job for their show, ahh, wait, we have the filthy part, but not the riches, lol

 

[Bob Sheppard]

I now have a big screen TV with an Apple TV in my shop. Today I had a Netflix show on "Filthy Riches" One of the jobs is a group of friends hunting for burls. Amazing huge burls from hard to reach locations. I sort of watch while I'm sanding... I think I might go back and watch it again. Like with all the weird things they find, like some kind of worms and Ginseng, they put a $ value, I think they are exaggerating the price, maybe they are not selling them to woodturners, maybe for veneer they can get those prices... I think I will email the producers and tell them I have a "filthy" job for their show, ahh, wait, we have the filthy part, but not the riches, lol

If you have a "filthy" job, you should have contacted Mike Rowe and his show "Dirty Jobs" while it was on. I enjoyed that show. It showed what average people had to do to make a living.

 

[Richard Coers]

Don't waste your time trying to talk to "reality" tv shows. They are scripted and set up, quite far from reality. It's purely entertainment.

 

[Mike Johnson]

They always exaggerate the prices on reality TV shows to add interest to the show. Just like Storage Wars ruined the market for anyone buying storage units. Just what we need a bunch of get rich quick schmucks running around in the forest cutting burls off of trees.

 

[Emiliano Achaval]

They always exaggerate the prices on reality TV shows to add interest to the show. Just like Storage Wars ruined the market for anyone buying storage units. Just what we need a bunch of get rich quick schmucks running around in the forest cutting burls off of trees.

I posted this also on the WOW. Very interesting there!! Chris Ramsey knows the guy from the tv show, he got ripped off by him... He is one of the guys that purchases burls for big money... He recommends another nice person to buy burls... I'm happy that I found a once in a lifetime Koa Burl. I'm almost ready to turn it...

 

[Perry Hilbert]

re reality TV. Like the not so Amish Amish guys on Amish mafia. I did work for a loose association of folks who were weather chasers. They were approached for a reality show that never got far. . The honchos in the group were talked into getting all these high tech expensive things for "the show" which never happened. A few hours of stuff was actually taped and it turned out some of the tape was actually phone conversations recorded without permission. (A felony in this state) . Then as it turns out, the promoter actually wrote an advance check to one of the honchos in the group and he quietly spent the bucks and never told anyone else. A lot of folks got burned in the thing and the group pretty much was tore apart.

 

[Doug Rasmussen]

They always exaggerate the prices on reality TV shows to add interest to the show. Just like Storage Wars ruined the market for anyone buying storage units. Just what we need a bunch of get rich quick schmucks running around in the forest cutting burls off of trees.

We already have burl thieves in the Pacific NW. The theft of figured western maple out of the National Forests got so bad the state enacted a law requiring proof of ownership when transporting cut wood.

Back in the day western maple was considered firewood.

 

[Mike Johnson]

Can you imagine this happening across the country on private and public lands.

 

[JeffSmith]

there’s also been people stealing redwood burl from the Northern California forests - they don’t seem to care if they’re taking from old stumps or the base of old growth living trees - just hit and run and convert to cash.

 

[Emiliano Achaval]

there’s also been people stealing redwood burl from the Northern California forests - they don’t seem to care if they’re taking from old stumps or the base of old growth living trees - just hit and run and convert to cash.

One way to try to stop that is making it a higher crime, more fines, jail time...