How many of you have something big like a glulam left over from a job you have been lugging around for years and can’t bring yourself to get rid of but never find a use for.
Extra prestige goes to those posters who have no where to store it and visitors always ask what that huge tarp covers.
Of course Junkhound is the patron saint of this discussion.
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I bought a flip house two years ago, there were some Douglas Fir beams, 4 x 6, that the prior owner left there. I hauled all 3 of them home, but the longest of the three, every bit of 32 feet, is still sitting on the walk right in front of my house.
I got the short ones moved, but I don't have a trailer long enough to haul the long one to the farm 60 miles away. I sure don't want to cut it - it's straight as an arrow, and we just don't see DF in South Georgia.
So there she is, right in the middle of the sidewalk.
Greg
a ladder rack on a 14-16ft trailer and you can haul 32ft.... i hauled 40ft steel on a 16ft trailer ... built a simple ladder rack for it so that i could...
if their is a will.....
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A 32 ft beam on your walk! I am humbled.
My wife was a "production builder" when that was actually going on and I was in her dumpsters at least once a week, sometimes intercepting things before they actually got to the dumpster but after they were condemned. It was simply amazing what they threw away in the name of speed. I still have a bit of a pile, 2 years and 3 major additions to my house later. When I figured out I was probably done with block and steel I gave away 4 cubes of block and a couple hundred pounds of rebar on Craigs list.
< My wife was a "production builder" . . . and I was in her dumpster at least once a week . . .>
Cool!
Forrest
Edited 6/25/2009 12:56 pm ET by McDesign
Just build another shed........
Isn't it one of the immutable laws of manliness that exactly two days and three hours after you dispose of or get rid of Item A, a huge need for Item A becomes apparent?
Yes, I wish there was a way to fool the universe.There is a corollary to that law.I cleaned up a few weeks ago, and moved a lot of stuff. I've seen it, I know I have it, and used to know right where it was.Three times this week already, I have spent an hour looking for where I put it when I moved it in the cleanup.
Welcome to the Taunton University of Knowledge FHB Campus at Breaktime. where ... Excellence is its own reward!
Hey honey, that's not sheit, that's stuff, and it's great stuff.http://www.tvwsolar.com
Now I wish I could give Brother Bill his great thrill
I would set him in chains at the top of the hill
Then send out for some pillars and Cecil B. DeMille
He could die happily ever after"
I have no idea what you are talking about.
Now shut up.
And for God's sake don't look in any of those car-haulers over there.
AitchKay
I'm getting better... I'm not adding to the piles... and i'm getting rid of a ton of stuff... sold a drink cooler... a 3compartment sink 10 barstools and 30 chairs before i came home today... have my pontoon boat on Craigslist now after not use'n it in 4 years... about to list my trooper... I've sold at least 3 semi truckloads of commercial kitchen equipment in the last few months and have yet to put a dent in my warehouse... (i last built a commercial kitchen in 1992)...
i have paid retail in the last few months for Caulk... portland... and sheet metal ductwork parts... and ceiling fans... sucks but when your inventory runs low you got to do what you got to do
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DANG
Wish you had answered your cell when me and DW went thru Memphis in '07 and were ready for a warehouse tour<G>.
Seldom get thru Memphis (and not since) but sure wanted to show DW somebody with a worse 'affliction' than me <G>
3- 3 1/2" x 14" x 20' treated PSL's.
Laying next to my garage.
Had 4 but used one of them for a garage door header.
Got rid of all that sith last fall -- cleaned out the garage. Put it out on the lawn and people took every bit of it. Stuff that cost several thousand, and I probably could have gotten $500 for if I'd taken the time, but it's just not worth it.
cleaned out the garage
wutz <G>
The extension springs on my garage door were looking really, really bad, and I figured one was going to break. Needed to clean out things enough to be able to service the springs.As it turned out, though, the springs lasted through winter, and about a month ago I had the (33-year-old) door converted over to a torsion spring system. It's never worked smoother.
As I stood before the gates I realized that I never want to be as certain about anything as were the people who built this place. --Rabbi Sheila Peltz, on her visit to Auschwitz
My son has a 16 ft door with torsion springs.
Hdw store price for a new coil when one broke was $40, but had a few in junkpile.
Best place to sate then was to install 4 (four) of them on the rod, with 2 free floating - ready to go if another breaks, no dissassembly required.
If you have some old 3/4" chain, a piece of old 4" pipe stood vertically with the chain hung inside attached to the door cable is a long term no-break spring replacement.
These are solid hardboard doors -- would take more than some chain to counterbalance.But I like your idea about the extra springs. If one ever breaks I'll try to remember to install a spare. However, only had one spring (of four) break in 33 years with the old setup, so it may not be in my lifetime.
As I stood before the gates I realized that I never want to be as certain about anything as were the people who built this place. --Rabbi Sheila Peltz, on her visit to Auschwitz
When I lived in NH I had 31/2 acres with 20 x 20 mancave/workshop shed with a wrap around porch. After 15 years I had quite a collection. When I moved, it cost me $500.00 to get rid of my free stuff. I now live on a 1/4 acre lot (long story) and have to say no.
"Shawdow boxing the appoclipse and wandering the land"
Wier/Barlow
A friend of mine after listening to me complain about not having a place for all my stuff said:
"You know you have too much stuff when it ceases to serve you and you now serve it."
Not there yet. Honest. Look, that's what the 40' container is for! - r
I bought a stainless steel retractable cover with 1-1/2" wide aluminum ribs on 3" centers riveted to the entire length of the back side. Paid $100. The rollup system is powered by a pneumatic motor with a chain drive. It's about 6-1/2' wide by 10' long. It's either some type of tank cover or ways cover for a giant government milling machine...
Always thought I'd use it for a rollup tool storage door or maybe to cover some PV panels when hail season comes around, but it still sits coiled and factory wrapped... I got the data off the I.D. tag to see if I could get a data sheet and cost.... They said they would have to find the blueprints since it most likely was made around 1983...
They wrote back and said to make another one would cost just over $9,000.....
http://www.gortite.com/covers/motor.html
Bill ;>)
I think Andy Rooney, (yes the 60-minutes guy), might have the best story.
I read an article in one of the woodworking magazines, where he was talking about his enjoyment of woodworking, and his love of wood.
When he was a cub reporter, just starting out, making very little, and newly married, he spotted a maple slab with beautiful grain at his lumber dealers, that he thought would be perfect for a dining room table. It cost far more than he could afford, but he talked the dealer into selling it to him on layaway, and skipped lunch to pay it off.
He and the wife had a small apartment, and no where else to store it, so he planed it smooth, put a coat of boiled linseed oil followed by some shellac on it, and hung it on the living room wall.
Years went by, and as he became more successful and could afford a series of progressively larger homes, he kept moving the maple slab with him. He decided that he needed to hone his skills in order to truly do justice to the wood. So, it was left hanging on the wall for several decades.
Finally, he was successful enough to afford a large home with a dedicated shop. Over the years he had become skilled enough, that he felt he could turn the beautiful piece of maple into a beautiful dining room table.
So, he went to take the slab off the wall and move it to his shop. His wife sees him and asks him what he's doing. When he tells her, that he is going to mill it into lumber and build her a new dining room table, she informs him that so far as she is concerned, it is the most beautiful piece of art they own, and that it is staying on the wall. Besides, after thirty years of dusting and waxing it, she has decided it is hers, and no longer his.
So, after holding onto the perfect piece of figured maple for decades, he had to go buy new lumber in order to build the table, he had been envisioning for all those years.
Edited 6/25/2009 1:29 am ET by Jigs-n-fixtures
You probably know the story about the old widow who finally died --
When cleaning out her house, they found a box labeled, "Pieces Of String Too Short To Save."
So I've always had a bin labeled, "Pieces Of Wood Too Short To Save."
Sure, some of it gets burned eventually. But there's no rush.
There's no rush.
AitchKay