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Showerthought: I hit 500 board feet of reclaimed lumber before I even realized it
I was cleaning out my workshop last weekend and decided to stack all the reclaimed wood I've pulled from jobsites over the last 6 months. I kept a rough tally in my head but never actually counted. Turns out I had 511 board feet of oak, pine, and cedar all piled up in the corner. That's like $1,500 worth of lumber if I bought it new from the yard. What surprised me most is how it just happened without me trying. I started grabbing it just to save a few bucks on a small shed project. But now I'm thinking about building a whole dining table set with some of it. Any other builders here track how much reclaimed material they've collected by accident?
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rowan220d ago
lol yeah I started doing the same thing a couple years ago for some shelves and now I'm basically a hoarder with good intentions. my pile is probably around 300 bf but its mostly random lengths of 2x4 and some really beat up oak flooring I pulled from a remodel. the funny thing is every time I see a dumpster on a jobsite I gotta check it now like some kind of raccoon.
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the_xena20d ago
Calling yourself a raccoon is pretty accurate, I started checking curbsides on trash day like they were my personal lumber lottery.
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