Took delivery of a small steel frame building yesterday (40x60x24) most all the dunage on the load was 4inx4inx8ft oak. Used a dozen or so pieces to set frame work on at the job site and loaded up the rest to cut up and burn... got 30 or so off the one truck load. We took delivery of another steel frame building today. (80x150x20) Three truck loads there... should be a whole bunch more coming home with me in the next few weeks! Just need to build me a Shawn Curry deluxe folding saw buck now!
You could build some really nice cribbed ends out of that! Probably won't need to wait 3 years to burn it either! Score and a half!!!
Yeah free... well when you buy $30k in building materials! Lol I've started putting it in all my contracts with customers and sub contractors that I keep possession of all dunage and cribbing! And that all started after joining FHC!
First thing my wife said was "What can I build with those?" It's very knotty, and some wind shakes... I believe most burr and post oak... In talking to my pallet making buddy.
Soooooo... yeah I totally depressed myself this morning, been up since 4:30 and got to thinking about this little score. I was wanting to see how much I got in cords, so math geek in me starts running numbers. Ok 4x4x8=128sq ft in a cord, my score was all 4x4x96 30 of them, 30x4=120/12=10', 96/12= 8ft., 4/12= .33ft, so 10x8x.33=26.4 sq ft/128=.20625 cord. I left a dozen on the job site, and half a dozen at the office so really there where around 48 or so on that load... soooo 48x4=192/12=16ft, 96/12=8ft, 4/12=.33ft, so 16x8x.33=42.24sq.ft./128=.33 cord on the load. I unloaded this job, and dad was up north unloading another job, of 3 truckloads...So I figured between this job, and the bigger building up north, I'll get about a cord of wood... sweet! Well that got me wondering about what I would of had from a really big job we sold a few years ago... it was a 650x1050x30 building, right at 13 acres under roof... That job was 187 truck loads, full legal height truck loads. These two building this week are much smaller, and less complex so smaller truck loads. Doing the math using the .33 cord/ truck load (I know that is a very conservative estimate), that job would have 61.71 cords Job foreman said there where trucks there every night pulling dunage out of the dumpsters, and they still hauled off a few roll off's full of dunnage! I would have been set for a good long time with all that.... BUUUUUTTTTTT, if I had cabbaged on to all that dunnage, I never would have started looking for another saw, never would have bough my MS362CMR off AS, then found FHC (and all you awesome peeps) Just think of all I would have missed out on!!! Still a heck of a lot of BTU's I missed out on! BTW, dunnage= trucker talk for all the wood blocking in a load... it was about 1/4 of the way through the 187 truck loads before I caught on to what that meant.
But remember that your bark free 4x4s stack up tight with no airspace. So without the bark and air you really are getting quite a bit more wood in your cord than with a stack of splits.
I would be using that stuff for some structure. I.E. a wood shed. Or a shelter to keep the overloads out of the garage.
Errr twitch twitch.... I own a post frame and steel frame construction company, kinda got build what I sell when it comes to my place, and I have built enough outta scraps in my day, also a perfectionist when it comes to buildings... plus with a 40x80x14 building, and three garages, I'm covered on storage area... plus the chicken coop, garden shed and the cattle shed... lol... and I tore down a 60x60x20 3 story barn when we moved in here! Lovely Wife really thought they would make good posts for a garden fence, I might do that. With all the steel frame we have sold this year, and if I get half of what we have priced, sold, I will be sitting good on this stuff for a while.
Sorry, didn't intent any sarcasm. Just hard for me to see lumber cut up to burn. Glad you have your coverage needs met. I could use more, although it would mean that I might hang on to more stuff then what I ever need. 4x4 oak is indeed a good find.
No harm no foul... I know how to scrounge with the best of them, and I could come up with some good ideas for these 4x4's, but any more I see stuff like this and think "burn, baby burn!"
FarmHand, it appears you have it all under control and it is easy to understand your situation. And a very good situation you have. Hope the rest of the summer goes as well for you.
