Driftwood

Has anyone who lives near water collected and sold driftwood?

I collected a bunch with my daughter and put it in my antique booth. It's actually selling!

I guess I count as living by water, since I'm on a sandbar 2 miles out in the Atlantic.

I don't collect driftwood, but it sells like fresh hotcakes here. The tourists an home owners who rent to them buy it all day long. It seems to make a great decoration for their houses. They pull it out of the ocean, an the sound. I never got in to it cause it's more competitive then anything else down here short of fishing an crabbing. To many yahoo's with a boat going out an pulling it in. It's a good money earner tho from what I see. When I do go for it, it's for my own personal use, cause I think it's cool.

It's much easier to find sound side then it is ocean side, lest down here. For some reason the majority of it's plucked out of the sound. Weird, I know.

If you do it, good luck! Charge the tourist, they can afford it. Ha ha!

Sirscrapalot - Loves not depending on tourists for his income.

We use it for smoking our salmon up here. Never thought of trying to sell it to anyone.

I think you would be surprised Mech. Bristol Bay is the largest Natural Salmon resource in the world. We get tourists from around the work here. LOTS of fishing lodges here, lots of movie stars too.

I was just going to say..Alaska get's a butt load of tourists. For fishing, hunting, the plain natural beauty. Some day I'll visit. Likely when I'm retired, have the rv, an can take the time to do it right. lol.

Sirscrapalot - Likes Alaska.

Yea, they do that here to Mike, as I'm sure you know. My neighbor up the road has a huge hunk of it in his front yard, I'll have to grab a pic tomorrow when I take the dogs out. Beautiful piece.

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Money for driftwood....amazing. That brings to mind the posting on here a couple of months back where someone poured molten aluminum down ant holes and sold the resulting castings on eBay for like $500.

I guess I should consider putting the stumps I dig outta the back 40 on concrete slabs and selling them. Right now I line them up on the property line to keep the scumbags on the land adjacent to mine from running their quads all over my property. (they cut wire fences) My wife tells me to call it an "Eco-Fence". They should sell like hotcakes.

J.

The ones I see sell, have character, it's not just grabbing a piece of wood out of the water, or sticking a tag on it. lol.

Like Miked said, here they go out in boats all day an pull the suckers in an sell them, to the tourists an home owners. It's a crazy world, but I think we al know people will buy just about anything.

Sirscrapalot - One man's junk is another man's art. - Dunno

Har....I guess my stumps only have character, and driftwood stumps have character.

I know, its an artsy f*rtsy thing, and I'm just an engine-ear.

Jon.

Their not stumps I see sell, unless we're using a different term for stump. lol. More like logs, branches, an pieces. Some a ft, some 3, 4, even 10. lol.

Either way if you can sell it more power to ya, folks buy some odd things, just like you pointed out with that silly ant farm thing. Heh.

Sirscrapalot - Doesn't go fishing for wood.

SSaL,

You're too serious! I'm just pulling your wazoo! Anything that slides into the artsy fartsy world means that logic and common sense falls out the window. So it becomes wide open for all kinds of mirth by people so inclined. Notwithstanding that huge amounts of money change hands for this kinda cra.....er, I mean, art.

Kinda tempted to carry a bucket of molten aluminum around myself....singing "I am an artist, I am an artist....."

J.

In Central PA, we don't have beaches, or much in the way of tourism, however, I visit the local flea market every other weekend with the Ol' Lady, and there is a guy or two who sells nothing but driftwood with store bought solar lights hot glued to them... They are selling for about 60-100 bucks a piece! I've thought about giving it a shot myself as I spend almost all summer hanging out on the creek. Hell, it's in my backyard!

I see someone mentioned fish tank already but I'll second that. I used to work in a small family owned pet store and driftwood is popular for terrariums and reptile tanks. If you get some really cool looking pieces you might be able to sell them to pet stores as well (the smaller ones, not the national chains).

* I also forgot to mention, beware of laws though. In PA, I believe taking driftwood is considered theft of natural resources. Might want to check with State Fish and Game Commissions...

Me to serious...that's a first. An I agree on the artsy fartsy-ies! lol.

I was just making sure you meant stump! Something musta gotten lost in the translation. I blame the Canadian.

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