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 Posted - February 20 : 10:40a
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I got a tip from a local guy on the Sawmill Creek web site about someone that was selling some 60+ year old oak planks in Fitchburg, Ma., which is only about 20-30 minutes drive from me.
The story is this. The guy bought an old paper mill/warehouse building. He set up his machine shop business in part of the building and is in the process of re-habbing the rest of the space for offices, manufacturing, etc. Whatever the new tenants want, really. In the process of the remodel, he has been removing these oak planks from the walls of the buildings. They were apparently nailed to the walls to protect them from hits from machinery, fork trucks, etc. So he currently has these huge stacks of oak planks and doesn't have a need for them. So he puts an add on Craig's List and a couple other places to sell them for $15.00 each. You can pick through the piles and choose whichever ones you want.
These planks are 2.5" to 4.5" thick, 8" to 10"+ wide and 8' to 16'+ long. These are some big, heavy planks.
12/4(3") red oak around here sells for about $6.50 per board foot. I picked up 10 planks that were all at least 3" thick by 8" wide and all were 12'+ in length. @ $15.00 each, that works out to about 60 cents per board foot!
This is what I got:
The fun part was hauling them home. 12 foot long oak planks loaded into my 5.5' short bed pickup. I tied them down with about 50 feet of 3/8" braided nylon rope. They did not move.
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- February 20 : 11:11a
| Nice score!
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- February 20 : 11:48a
| Wow, that's an incredible score... I'm jealous as hell.
Only similar story I have... Years ago, I was given a ton of pine planks that were used in a 120 year old victorian as wall covering. The buliding had gone through a fire and my younger brother somehow ended up with a pile of these boards. After storing them for a few years, he gave them to me. I've built quite a few pieces out of it.
Any specific ideas on how you're going to use them? |
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| I just ordered the Darby Extend-A-Truck load support from Amazon. I'll be ready next time. It even comes with the red flag.  | |
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- February 20 : 1:29p
| You found some old wood? =)
now go make me something nice.. | |
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| | There's a remedy for that now-a-days! | |
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- February 20 : 4:04p
| | Thats a nice find if I can say so myself | |
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- February 20 : 4:11p
| Cool!
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- February 20 : 4:43p
| This is a picture taken by a couple of guys from the Sawmill Creek web site. They are standing by one of the piles of these oak planks. There are 2 more piles about the same size. These are just the planks that have been removed from the walls so far. In the background you can see the outside wall with many, many more of these planks still attached to the walls. If I had the cash and a place to store it, I would absolutely be going back to pick up more of this wood.
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- February 21 : 6:29a
| Wow, that's a great find. I'm tempted to go out and grab a few myself.
Do you have a metal detector? It looks like I can see some nails and stuff in your pics, would hate to ruin a planer knife or re-saw blade on that stack... | |
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- February 21 : 4:38p
| What a steal Mark!
Thats Why I love my 16' flatbed trailer. It's almost as handy as you are lol
Jason | |
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- February 21 : 7:12p
| Quote: Originally posted by Mark05KR
Quote: Originally posted by devnull
Wow, that's a great find. I'm tempted to go out and grab a few myself.
Do you have a metal detector? It looks like I can see some nails and stuff in your pics, would hate to ruin a planer knife or re-saw blade on that stack...
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I do have a metal detector, but it shouldn't be needed. The boards were mostly nailed horizontally to the framing using 60d nails, so you can see all of the nails that were left in. Some were lagged to the framing or were mounted with steel angle brackets. Most of the lag bolts have already been removed.
You can pick through the piles and find boards with no hardware left in them. Of the ten I got, only three still have nails in them.
Let me know if you plan to take drive down there. I wouldn't mind going back again and I can bring the detector. If there is any hidden metal, we can mark the spots.
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OK, probably next Friday... I usually work from home on Friday's, and tomorrows Friday is booked solid with actual work to do :) | |
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- February 21 : 10:32p
| | Great find Mark! | |
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- February 22 : 8:38a
| Quote: Originally posted by devnull
Quote: Originally posted by Mark05KR
Quote: Originally posted by devnull
Wow, that's a great find. I'm tempted to go out and grab a few myself.
Do you have a metal detector? It looks like I can see some nails and stuff in your pics, would hate to ruin a planer knife or re-saw blade on that stack...
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I do have a metal detector, but it shouldn't be needed. The boards were mostly nailed horizontally to the framing using 60d nails, so you can see all of the nails that were left in. Some were lagged to the framing or were mounted with steel angle brackets. Most of the lag bolts have already been removed.
You can pick through the piles and find boards with no hardware left in them. Of the ten I got, only three still have nails in them.
Let me know if you plan to take drive down there. I wouldn't mind going back again and I can bring the detector. If there is any hidden metal, we can mark the spots.
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OK, probably next Friday... I usually work from home on Friday's, and tomorrows Friday is booked solid with actual work to do :)
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