With the expansion work going on at the plant, comes unexpected blessings. As parts or equipment is brought in, big frames and cribbage comes too. Might be good for a couple . This is the ground anchors that are being installed... The wood on these are the shorter pieces... The shaft sections... These have the longer pieces... Tonight's hoard... 2 short oak pieces 5 long oak pieces 2 long poplar pieces The hoard so far at home...not counting tonight's... 13 shorts 17 longs Far left pieces are from different time.
Good stuff there. Reminds me of a certain supply house I did business with years back. They had small pallets with full size 2x4 and 1x6 oak and/or sugar maple. Few slices with the circular saw and they were ready for the insert. Never really got them in quantity, but always looked forward to a visit there.
Whenever we had done construction like that done at work I've always been able to score some very large and heavy duty pallets that can either be used whole, or dismantled to use for wood shed/etc construction. The one I was drooling on was almost 40' long, only one splice in the middle, but the guys cut it off, which obviously shortened things up from what could have been...I still got some really good lumber and firewood from it though But nothing will ever beat the score my brother hooked me up with though, he has a customer that builds the glass "windows" that make up the walls on those glass sided skyscraper buildings...the crates they get glass in are no joke! Long, and heavy duty! They were paying for a large rolloff dumper to throw them in every week! Brother told them to save them for us, we will pick up every week. When I was working minimal hours during covid I pretty much set up a pallet dismantling operation...with the lumber prices at that time I recall calculating that I was making about $100/hr, compared to buying the same wood. (Not including the time to pick it up) It was great quality too, most better than what you'd find at bLowes. It was mostly 13' long, some up over 17', plus more "short" pieces than we could use (4-5') From that score I built my sister a lean-to wood shed (about 6x24') framed the roof on my garage addition (8x20', but the roof framing was over 12' long) built myself a lean-to wood shed (12x16') Also donated over (50) 13'+ 2x6s to my buddy for his home addition, and still have probably 50-60 various pieces left, some of it is only 8-9' long, but some is still up to 17' too. It was largly 2x6s, a few 2x4s, some 2x8s, and a few 2x10s too. I doubt I'll ever beat this score!
This is some from a different project that was done. Not the 2x8x8 PT board on top, the other is 3x4x9 and some 1x4x9. Some type of spruce or fir, I think. Already cut the shorter pieces to 11 1/2" long. Good for building our fires Gonna burn the cutoffs when we go camping.
If you guys didn’t know because I didn’t until lately when you go to Home Depot in the back where they cut lumber there is usually wood and it’s marked 75 percent off it will have a purple dot on it
Found some more in another area, close to where they are drilling the anchors. I bet this would make something nice... Tonight's haul, added 10 more to the hoard 1 poplar, rest oak
Take it all! Used to grab the dunnage from ductile iron water pipe on our utility projects. It was 4”x6” white oak and 6’-7’ long. On the bigger jobs I’d bring home a couple pickup beds full of them, cut them to 12” for our small wood stove and stack in the garage.
I did some of this when I was working construction at a warehouse many moons ago. Tons and tons of pallet racking was being assembled and it was all cribbed with white oak boards for shipping. They other guys had a real good time watching me load down the back of a Dodge Omni with those things. They thought I was some sort of hayseed because I wore bib overalls for that job. (was wearing holes in shirts on chest handling materials, the bib fixed that problem)
Only got 2 long poplar pieces tonight. Don't know if someone else got them today or they used some on the job...
That's great stuff Jeff. Get all you can! When I was running jobs, all our yard piping came from back east with the same size 4"x6"x7' stickers of red oak. When we had accumulated a bunch I would bring my trailer a couple days in a row and have a laborer use an electric chainsaw and buck them up to 16" or so. Got a lot of good house heating out of that wood! Stacks easy too!
Came back to work Thursday night after our days off, they had gotten most of the anchors installed. Had a lot of timbers loose. Collected 40 plus a couple small pieces about 18" long. Probably all I'll get unless more anchors are brought in.
Got it all stacked, about 3 boards and plywood on far left were already there. The rest is from the recent score. Time to get out the chop saw. The pallets are 50" tall, bottom is 48" wide
