A neighbor had a silver maple taken down on Monday. She told me family wanted the wood and put a up a cardboard sign. While walking my dog this morning I noticed she changed the sign to say “Free Wood”. I worked from home today and went up there on my lunch hour with my saw. I got a nice load in about 45 minutes cutting. Someone else from the neighborhood showed up and I helped him some and made a new wood burning friend. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
I used to hate silver maple until I got stuff that looked like that - nice and straight, easy to split and dries well in just a year. Nice score
Free wood is always nice! I rarely pay for my firewood. Always on the lookout at construction sites and stuff
Started my day shift rotation yesterday, scrounged a few pallet boards that had gotten knocked off and a nice 4x5x8' oak timber. The other boards are 2x4x8 that had a little cement residue on them. I'll use them in building another rack.
Most of the pallets I see seem to be pine. I need to pay closer attention. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
Pine burns too when dry...lol...our company installed a rack storage system and had heavy duty pallets built with oak boards that the shipping pallet is set on for storage until shipped. Over time the in- house pallets, as they are called, will have boards knocked loose or broken...our paper bags come in a box with a 4 piece oak frame that gets thrown away. I cut them up too... Here is a load of the 11" boards loaded N/S in the stove. Burned all night.
T.Jeff Veal do you let those boards dry or burn them right away? I have a lot of pallets building up at work some are Oak some are all kinds of different wood.
Haven't checked bthem with my MM, but I know the pallets have been used for over a year, I burn them along with my other wood
Some of the furniture that dad and I built... I'll get pics of the shop later... This coffee table was built in '97. My wife and I helped dad build it for us. Kindled the flame to build furniture again for me for awhile. We made all the parts for it. The top is one solid 23" wide board that was cut and sawn on our place. Left the crack in it so it would a true solid board. This grandfather clock was built from lumber harvested and sawn by me from our place that my grandad owned, built by my dad. My daughter has claimed this one. My dad built this high chair for our kids. Now our grandkids get to enjoy it. Dad passed away in '01, so I finished up the orders he had and ran the shop in my spare time for several years. I built my wife a bed from northern cherry, only thing I bought was the finial on the headboard. The rails are mortise and tenon joined. The posts are 5x5 that I turned on our big lathe. Never had built kitchen cabinets before, but when the factory ones started getting ugly and the hunny wants a remodel, what's a man to do....got out the tape measure, pencil and paper. Designed and built these for our house. Added a few bells and whistles to them. They have 4 pull out shelves, drawers are dovetailed, has a 2 shelf turntable in the corner under the sink. Designed the microwave/refrigerator cabinet. We replaced the vinyl floor with 3/4"thick tiger wood flooring.
