Wood hoarding comes to me in many flavors. Metals SuperMarket moved into my neighborhood. They get really heavy stuff. These pallets run 12' long w/3 skids. Most of them are full dimension 2x3 and 4x4s. Most of the stringers are 2x6 or full 1" oak. They stack them out front and I asked one day. Sure, help yourself. I have been scrounging these since. Pretty easy. 4 miles from my house. 45 min round trip. Usually 6-8 pallets at a time. Great wood for "free". A couple of weeks ago, there was a bonus pallet. 2 12'-4x4 skids and double 2x6 stringers. I kept the 4x4 intact. They were pretty decent. You just never know. Shipping label said this pallet shipped 26 sheets of 1/8" stainless steel plate 48"x120". Shipping weight was #4.6K. I needed to move my mail box and needed a new post... so......a new mail box post. Lap joints pinned w/1/2" dowel. Set the dowels w/plastic resin glue. It cleaned up pretty nice. It will never come apart. Last summer my neighbor called and said he was taking down some old cedars for a remodel. Did I want the wood. I dropped everything. Got some really nice wood. Sat under cover since then. I pulled a piece a few weeks ago to see what I had. YIKES.....the first box was for the neighbor. It is wild, beautiful wood. ...and smells amazing. I didn't finish the inside of the case so it will always have that smell when you take out a drawer.
You always do amazing work, but that cedar box is really something! I can almost smell it just looking at the pics
You driving horse and buggy that it takes 45 minutes to go 8 miles, or do you get to jawing with the people?
What kind of cedar? Our yellow cedar (I think it is also called cyprus) and Western red cedar doesn't have that kind of colour variations in it.
I think Eastern Red cedar. It is an aeromatic cedar. These trees were close to 100yrs old. Very unusual to get cedar this big.
I have some arborvitae bushes that are that big, maybe bigger...planted in the 80s I think...the wood looks very similar/same to what you have there...smells great too.
Yes, that's Eastern Red Cedar. Smells really good, works nicely. We have some down here. We took one down on a tree job not long ago. Cedar on the left, Holly on the right Cedar on the right side and a hemlock tree. Both have dark centers
