Post by Clipper on Nov 29, 2020 11:24:16 GMT -5
I found a post on a local marketplace FB page that lists 4'x10' pallets, all oak. They are clean and no chemical stains. FREE! I really need to buy a planer to process this salvaged oak lumber. A 10' oak 4x4 is almost impossible to find and if you can find such a thing the price would be outrageous. 4 foot 1x6 boards? Another hard to find and expensive item.
I am going to Johnson City first thing tomorrow with my neighbor's trailer to pick up at least 3 of the pallets. I will bring them home and start the tedious and time consuming job of carefully disassembling them and pulling all the nails. I will fill the holes left by the nails with a mixture of Weldwood glue and the oak sawdust I get from sawing the pallets down into a more manageable length. Hopefully I will end up with acceptable, furniture worthy lumber with which to build book shelves, gun racks, lamps, and other items that I can sell online. One piece of oak 1"x 6" x 4' costs between 15 and 18 dollars if purchased from woodworker's store.
My next quest will be to find a reasonably priced used wood stove to install in my shop, and someone to properly install the triple wall insulated pipe through the ceiling and roof of the garage. I have often envisioned being able to go out and light a fire in a woodstove and go back in an hour to a warm and toasty work area.
I am going to Johnson City first thing tomorrow with my neighbor's trailer to pick up at least 3 of the pallets. I will bring them home and start the tedious and time consuming job of carefully disassembling them and pulling all the nails. I will fill the holes left by the nails with a mixture of Weldwood glue and the oak sawdust I get from sawing the pallets down into a more manageable length. Hopefully I will end up with acceptable, furniture worthy lumber with which to build book shelves, gun racks, lamps, and other items that I can sell online. One piece of oak 1"x 6" x 4' costs between 15 and 18 dollars if purchased from woodworker's store.
My next quest will be to find a reasonably priced used wood stove to install in my shop, and someone to properly install the triple wall insulated pipe through the ceiling and roof of the garage. I have often envisioned being able to go out and light a fire in a woodstove and go back in an hour to a warm and toasty work area.
When I lived on Kayuta Lake we had several large oak trees across the road. Just about any fall morning and evening you would see the deer browsing on the acorns.
