Salvage work!
By koopharper
@koopharper (7477)
Canada
August 8, 2016 4:40pm CST
Early shift today at work means I get home in time to do some work for myself while there is still plenty of daylight.
My youngest son and I visited one of the locals who removed his wood shed from the back of his house and has replaced it with something better. We have first dibs on the recovered material. What we don't claim he'll torch just before winter.
Most of the materials are not suited to my current projects but a lot of it is just too good to pass up. It won't build me my wood shop but there are a lot of other things that it will do.
Wesley was industrious and peeled off all the siding on that side of it. He's still small enough that I can help him up and down. That way we didn't need a ladder. I'm just not that spry anymore.
It was a good day but not so great for being on myLot.
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@koopharper (7477)
• Canada
8 Aug 16
If it wasn't for material like this I'd probably never get anything built these days.
@koopharper (7477)
• Canada
9 Aug 16
My other sons are lucky there is a limited number of tools or I'd have them all out there working hard. Next time around I'll likely try to have two boys with me. Two of us prying boards loose and the third person removing nails. If I can get a fourth one into the game I'll have him loading the ready boards into the van. Getting them all to work is a tall order but I can dream.
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@koopharper (7477)
• Canada
9 Aug 16
@jaboUK Four sons and a daughter. When we're all rowing in the same direction, we are a force to be reckoned with. 
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@jaboUK (64361)
• United Kingdom
9 Aug 16
@koopharper So you have 4 sons? Quite a workforce, though not quite a football team
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@koopharper (7477)
• Canada
8 Aug 16
The locals here have a bit of a redneck reputations but they are all good people. They've been helpful and generous to us. The only problems we've ever had back here are from people outside the area.
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@toniganzon (72285)
• Philippines
8 Aug 16
It's ok Koop. You still had a good day and that's what is important.
Sunday, I went over my old discussions way back 2012 and saw you there. I hadn't remembered interacting with you in the past till I saw my old posts. Glad we did.
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@toniganzon (72285)
• Philippines
8 Aug 16
@koopharper Thanks for remembering me.
There was one discussion of mine where you said you never regret marrying your wife. It was such a nice response and now it'll stick to my mind forever.
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@koopharper (7477)
• Canada
8 Aug 16
Have interacted back and forth with a lot of people here over the years. I remember you from back then but not anything we talked about.
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@CinnamonGrl (7083)
• Santa Fe, New Mexico
8 Aug 16
It's always cool when you can get some buildilng materials that way. My son in law always has projects going on around their new house, and so he's always taking home materials from other places that are being torn down around town. And it seems like this town always has buildings being torn down, lol.
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@koopharper (7477)
• Canada
8 Aug 16
I'm hoping to gain material that way here in the future. We were a little short on tools for that kind of work. Someone had broken into this place and stole anything they thought they could resell. A lot of metal things disappeared. I bought a crow bar and Wesley found my flat bar so we can do more than I thought. There are a lot of older buildings in the area that get torn down here as well. Sooner or later I will have the stuff to put up a real wood shop.
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@crazyhorseladycx (39515)
• United States
14 Sep 16
the hubs'n i used to giggle with glee when folks were tearin' down ol' barns 'n wooden fences. always lots that could fashioned outta 'em. heck, our biggest barn 'tis made outta ol' lumber 'n sheet metal. the biggest cost to 's bein' all that caulkin' 's 't seems those previous holes aint ne'er where we wished 'em to be, lol.
glad'ja 'd ya some help with that. those young'uns do come'n handy, eh? i'm sure he enjoys such 's well - kinda like goin' treasure huntin' :)
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@GardenGerty (157552)
• United States
8 Aug 16
I have done well here and on Swagbucks. It is time for me to write an article for Textbroker. It is hard to let good material just go to the burn pile.
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@koopharper (7477)
• Canada
8 Aug 16
Most of the material looks like it was salvaged from an old barn previously. Some of it is pretty rotten and or eaten up by carpenter ants. The quarter inch plywood floor boards are already at home as well as some lengths of beat up tongue and grove. I find enough salvage jobs like this one and I will eventually have my wood shop. Well see what I can get in the way of barn boards. I may be able to build a couple of forms for canoe building using this material for the parts that would have been expensive.
@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
9 Aug 16
not so great here either as the rain is keeping me a nervous wreck. glad you got all those goodies for projects
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@koopharper (7477)
• Canada
9 Aug 16
We'll get lots of rain soon enough. That will restrict a lot of what I can do.
@arthurchappell (45002)
• Preston, England
8 Aug 16
great that you were able to salvage some of the wood to recycle it for future use
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@koopharper (7477)
• Canada
8 Aug 16
It's an ongoing project. When he built this thing he used a lot more nails and screws than he needed to. It takes quite a bit of work to get the valuable pieces off of it. We have several months to work at it though. Free materials is always good for us.
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@acelawrites (19273)
• Philippines
9 Aug 16
It is good to recycle materials;you can still use the wood for other purposes.
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