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    Ever notice how sexy an older woman can be with her own fire arms???

    Glad to hear you're good so far.



    I know you got far more than you can do but have you ever though about the re-claimed wood business? Them city folks go crazy for barn wood, out house wood they don't seem to care. Mike
    "Profit begins when you buy NOT when you sell." {quote passed down to me from a wise man}

    Now go beat the copper out of something, Miked

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    A blind carpenter walks into a lumber mill and shouts out, "I am a blind carpenter and I need a job."

    The foreman walks over to the blind carpenter and says, "If you're blind, how can you work in a lumber yard?"

    The blind carpenter says, "I can tell any piece of lumber by it's smell."

    The foreman says "O.K. I'll give you a test and if you pass the test, you've got a job."

    The foreman takes the carpenter over to a table and says, "I will put some lumber on a table in front of you and you tell me what it is."

    The foreman then puts a piece of lumber on the table and says, "Ready!"

    The carpenter bends over and takes a deep sniff moving his head from one side to the other. He says "That's a number two pine, two by four, eight foot long."

    The foreman says, "Duh! That's right, but pine is easy to tell by the smell and I think you guessed the rest. Here's another piece of lumber for you to identify."

    The foreman puts a piece of lumber on the table and says, "Ready!"

    The blind carpenter bends over and takes a deep sniff moving his head from one side to the other and says, "This is a tough one, please turn it over so I can smell the other side."

    The foreman does this and says "Ready!"

    The carpenter takes another deep sniff moving his head from side to side. He then says, "That's a clear heart red wood, four by four, six foot long."

    The foreman is amazed and says "That's right, but I still think you're just lucky and still guessing. Let me try one more time and if you get it right you got a job."

    The foreman then goes into the office and asks his secretary to help him stump the blind carpenter by taking off all of her clothes and laying down on the table. She takes off her clothes walks out of the office and lays face down on the table. The foreman says, "Ready!"

    The blind carpenter takes a deep sniff moving his head from side to side. He looks puzzled and takes another sniff and says, "This also is a tough one, please turn it over so I can smell the other side."

    The foreman gestures with his hand to the secretary, she rolls over, and the foreman says, "Ready!"

    The blind carpenter moves his head from side to side again looking puzzled. He sniffs one more time, looks surprised, and says, "I got it. That's an outhouse door off a tuna boat."

    He got the job.
    Currently looking for a job in or related to scrap/recycling. Relocation is possible for the right offer.

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    Quote Originally Posted by miked View Post
    Ever notice how sexy an older woman can be with her own fire arms???

    Glad to hear you're good so far.

    I know you got far more than you can do but have you ever though about the re-claimed wood business? Them city folks go crazy for barn wood, out house wood they don't seem to care. Mike
    My wife is even sexier when her gun is loaded. She says the same about me.

    Your timing is impeccable about old wood. I have an old barn and two granaries that need to be removed. Some of this wood will be used on projects at the ranch and cabin. There is more than enough to finish these projects and 100 more. It would be great to make a deal for the wood and find a reasonable avenue for transportation. Any help would be appreciated.
    Give back more to this world than we take.

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    MattInTheHat - Thank you for a great story. I could not stop laughing until the wife read it and rolled over giggling. Now I have to go to work. Thanks for the moment.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Patriot76 View Post
    My wife is even sexier when her gun is loaded. She says the same about me.

    Your timing is impeccable about old wood. I have an old barn and two granaries that need to be removed. Some of this wood will be used on projects at the ranch and cabin. There is more than enough to finish these projects and 100 more. It would be great to make a deal for the wood and find a reasonable avenue for transportation. Any help would be appreciated.
    No first hand contacts, but there are people that will even buy the vintage wood "as is where is" aka they do the demolition.

    There is a show called salvage dawgs, probably to far away for them to be interested, but its a cool show.

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    P76- I've sold wood off of one old "farm" building and had good interest but I live in a metro area. The problem is you don't. You could always post to our CL and build in the price of delivery with the cost of the rest of the material. But again, our metro is still failry small compared to others around the country and South Dakotans-our region, people want things cheap unless they have more money than they know what to do with (some of our medical people and attorneys around here come to mind).

    A potential outlet, probably for next year, would be one of my metro's "farmer's markets"-- there's now about 4-5 in the city on Sat. mornings. My wife likes going to one that has about a dozen booths and knows some of the vendors pretty well. I had explored potentially joining a farmer's market (maybe in the future) and had checked out some of their rules. The biggest cost of getting set up (this former one new members had to be voted in) was the cost of insurance, of which they had minimums of coverage. My auto insurance folks could get me a million $ liability policy for about $260 a year. If you want, I can check out the one my wife goes to and see what they would think of a vintage salvaged wood vendor. I don't know how much could be hauled down in a typical flatbed trailer but if nothing else word-of-mouth and other contacts might net clients. Who knows...???

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    Old barn wood...

    I went through that, too.

    Must be a big city affliction. Gaga over a few pieces of weathered wood.

    A couple of years ago I was in charge of scrapping out a large planermill. It was built in 1970, at the height of the glu-lam timber craze for heavy construction. So there was a couple of acres of building, all built with glulams and 24' rough sawn 3x12 Douglas fir roof purlins, dying for repurposing and reuse. I even toyed with what I could do with a couple of the curved beams that were in there.

    I toted it all up and made a list of the relatively easily salvaged glulams and 3x12's. It added up to about 5 fully-loaded 53' flat decks worth of timber.

    Then I did some beating of the bushes to see if I could get anyone interested. Found one outfit in BC, Canada and a few in the US Pacific Northwest. Zero interest at any price.

    They all wanted it taken down, denailed and loaded for them, which I couldn't do. If they were interested they had to figure out how to get it down and loaded. They could leave whatever they didn't want. We probably would have taken not much over $1000 if anyone was willing to bite--just to get it gone at no cost to us.

    Eventually it all got smashed down by the scrap metal guy. We brought a wood shredder to the site and turned it into itty bitty pieces that were landfilled. Too much tramp metal in it to be burned in the local cogen plant for energy.

    Jon.

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    This was a good read after taking a year off form this site. glad to hear your health is good.

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    On the forum we discuss scrapping items, making art projects, and getting more than scrap value. Another area to consider is bartering. To me this is the most profitable strategy because everyone comes out a winner. "One mans trash is another mans treasure." I traded 12 telephone poles:



    For a 1941 International KB 2.



    Taxes on this trade will be due when the truck is sold, either as scrap or as a restored vehicle. The telephone poles were never depreciated.
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    Post 120 showed a load from a local business. What I did not mention, this was a barter deal because of the low prices. So I traded two cases of beer for six central air units, one window unit, and a water heater.


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    Happy to see your post this morning Mr. Patriot. The wife and I were watching the storm coverage on TV and I thought your area might have gotten hit. We dodged a bullet again. Baseball size hail and 70mph wind just north of us. Glad we weren't fishing (or camping) out at Waubay.
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    A company I have sold reclaimed lumber to is called "Elmwood reclaimed Timber", they will buy old barn wood from you and also buy old tin roofing.

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    This is an old hog shed that I removed. Took it down just like the water tanks, from the bottom - up. Four pallets of wood was salvaged. Thanks Miked for the idea.


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    P76- Somehow I missed some of your more recent posts.

    I had the wifey check on if one of FSD's farmers' market would want a "vintage salvaged wood" vendor. The people she knows the best told her they didn't know but any new vendor has to be voted on by the group. So I don't know about that...

    An idea might be to sell out of a larger storage unit where you could bring down the material and have it available for sale via Cl, Shopping News, and/or other such venues. A person would have to look around for a unit that is accessible to a bigger trailer rig. The place I have my little unit right now would be tough to get in and out with a truck and say a 16 ft. trailer. Metro FSD has a lot of storage unit locations. Because you're 2+ hours away, you might need a "broker" to at least show people the materials while you're dealing on the phone. Not that I'm pitching to being such a broker for you, only that it might make things workable. If you assembled such wood materials during the cold months and brought it FSD at the beginning of the warm season, you might only have to rent out a unit for part of year.

    Who knows, it might be a possibility. Then again maybe not...

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    I was contacted and asked if I wanted to scrap some machinery. I informed the person with low scrap prices I could not afford to scrap on a percentage basis. As we talked I found out he had four Cat D-7 and three D-4 dozers, several scrapers, and misc. steel that needed to be removed so he could sell his property. The dozers range from 15 tons to 20 tons each. That is 125 tons + of metal. The icing on the cake is that they are located within ten miles of the scrap yard.

    At the present time I am researching how to sell them for better than scrap price. Problem is because of their size, the logistics makes them hard to sell. Therefore this winter I might be posting a thread on how to "not" scrap a bull dozer. With the amount of torching required, snow on the ground will be a requirement.

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    We have cut up 4 d7s. Unfortunately the tracks were shot on all of them and they are VERY expensive to fix. Making them almost worthless. They all ran, but parts are not worth much.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ResourcefulRecycling View Post
    We have cut up 4 d7s. Unfortunately the tracks were shot on all of them and they are VERY expensive to fix. Making them almost worthless. They all ran, but parts are not worth much.
    I would appreciate any insights and lessons you learned in this project. If you are willing to share on the forum I would like to start a new thread dedicated to this topic. If not I would appreciate any information you are willing to provide in a PM. Thanks.

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    I know u live in nowhere land but around here a good old fashioned auction would do the trick

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    P76, you never cease to find interesting projects to tackle!!! Just think of what that 125+ tons cost new coming off of semi flatbeds!!!

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    A Tumbleweeds View of Scrapping

    any chance of creating even one working machine with parts from the others?

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