what is a good source for inexpensive wood?
please share your leads and techniques.
i'm going to start buying wood in march for my project at my local TrueValue unless i find a better, cheaper place.
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Bob
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Re: affordable lumber
Um... the woods?alienfry wrote:what is a good source for inexpensive wood?
What are you building & what kind of lumber?
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What are you building? Do you need LUMBER, for a framework, or just surface stuff?
LA probably has a couple fewer open meadows to harvest sassafras and other "trash trees" from, but you've got bamboo where we don't...But we all have places to get SHIPPING PALETTES, the duct tape of wood. Call around, and you'll have wood in no time- Slats AND lumber sections. Many manufacturers have piles of 'em, and there are specialists that collect and resell 'em if you can't score for free.
LA probably has a couple fewer open meadows to harvest sassafras and other "trash trees" from, but you've got bamboo where we don't...But we all have places to get SHIPPING PALETTES, the duct tape of wood. Call around, and you'll have wood in no time- Slats AND lumber sections. Many manufacturers have piles of 'em, and there are specialists that collect and resell 'em if you can't score for free.
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Re: affordable lumber
dumpsters at construction sites...alienfry wrote:what is a good source for inexpensive wood?
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Cheap lumber, low cost but lots of effort
Last Year, Almost every piece of lumber I used for my BM project came from wood reclaimed from building sites. we used over 20 full sheets of plywood and lots of other heavy timber. A really good supply of plywood is from concrete form work of big buildings.They use it once, then chuck it. If the building is quite big, you can get a lot of full sheets. You end up pulling a lot of nails though.
These sites are also a great source of rebar for your stakes.
I had a friend (Goes by the name of 'Koke') that hauls construction waste here in the san francisco area and he let me scavange his lumber boxes before taking them to the 'chipper'. It took about a month to get all the lumber I needed.
Another source was from a glass company . Lots and lots of 2x6 and 2x8 lumber. Terrible cheap stuff but good enough for our purposes.
These sites are also a great source of rebar for your stakes.
I had a friend (Goes by the name of 'Koke') that hauls construction waste here in the san francisco area and he let me scavange his lumber boxes before taking them to the 'chipper'. It took about a month to get all the lumber I needed.
Another source was from a glass company . Lots and lots of 2x6 and 2x8 lumber. Terrible cheap stuff but good enough for our purposes.