What Does $250 Worth of Wood Look Like?

[Jason Hanko]

Oh...like this. :D
Its a bit under 300bf - mostly 4/4 and up, and between 6' and 10' in length. Mostly white/red oak and walnut, with some random Aspen, Ash, Elm and Pine.
Now where the heck am I going to put my car?!??
Thanks Craigslist!

[Joshua Layne]

OMG you suck.
:)

My garage looks like that too, but it cost me a WEE bit more than $250...

[jerry nazard]

Now where the heck am I going to put my car?!??
Thanks Craigslist!

Cars?? We don't need no stinkin' cars....

Nice score!!

[Paul Atkins]

$250 worth of ebony would fit in your backpack. Nice haul.

[Pat Keefe]

Cars are water resistant anyway.

[Paul Greathouse]

Guess your cars just going it have to be jealous for a while. Great price on what looks to be a great stack of lumber.

[Ken Shoemaker]

Full on SUCK there!!! Good for you.

[Harold Burrell]

Thou truly sucketh indeed.

[Fred Voorhees]

This is EXACTLY why I try to check out Craigslist often. I figure sooner or later, I might hit one of these deals also. Oh, yeah, by the way, I also believe you suck!

[Rob Wright]

Nice score! Looks like some > 5/4 there!

[Peter Quinn]

So did you hear the police sirens following you as you drove away with that wood, or did you choose to ignore them?:eek:

Nice score. Now I'm curious how you came to buy so much wood so cheap. As far as the car, I never even told my wife we had garage when we bough the house. She keeps asking "What is that building at the end of the driveway?" and I keep telling her its a dilapidated potting shed and not fit to be inhabited.:cool:

[keith ouellette]

Thats real nice.

I had a chance to buy 100's of board feet of rough hard maple, walnut and oak at $1 per board foot.

I didn't have any money to spare at all.

just my bad luck

[gary Zimmel]

Nice score Jason, real nice score....

[Jack Camillo]

ya better start making stuff

[John Shaffner]

Craig's List is definately the bomb!:D I peruse it several times daily and have come up with some awesome scores on lumber. Also, I now have a guy just north of me that mills his own logs and contacts me when he gets something he thinks I might like. Last deal I got from him was a mix of red oak and ash for $.60/bf. A couple of yrs. ago, I scored 300 bf of mixed ash, cherry, maple and hickory for $.30/bf. Did I mention that I think CL is the bomb!?

Happy hunting,
John

[Mike Cruz]

I guess you've been looking at wood rack plans, huh? Gonna need one...a big one...

[Chuck Isaacson]

I don't suppose that you got that from an old guy that lives in Verona did you? I got some from there this summer. He had tons of wood. I think that I am going to hit him up here pretty soon. The supply is running low. Noce score none the less. Looks like a lot of work ahead. In you spare time you can start surfacing it just a little so that we you need something, you can look through your collection and see what you have. Looks like your next project might be some lumber storage!!!

Chuck

[Mike Goetzke]

Nice haul Jason. But is that just an excuse to use your new toy - I mean jointer?

[Wade Lippman]

Okay, I would certainly have been thrilled to have made that purchase, but it doesn't compare to the 150bf of oak I got on ebay for $0.99, or the 100bf of cherry and 40bf of mahogany I bought at auction for $40. (there was also about 100 sf of nice plywood, but I don't count that, since its just plywood)

[John Daugherty]

Nice score Jason, here's my 250 dollar pile. It's not ready to use yet, still drying:(

[Jason Hanko]

Thanks everyone, I thought it was a pretty good deal too.
Since this is my first ever major wood purchase, I didnt have any existing infrastructure to store it all (the 4 cheapo shelving brackets I had put up to hold a few 2x4s wasnt going to cut it...)
Due to space restraints I decided to go with vertical storage (thanks to the various threads I got info/ideas from!). After a few hours work: problem solved. It fits all the wood I bought with a bunch of room to spare. Its built out of 2x4s and the 1/2 plywood that my new G0490 shipping crate was made out of. :D I made a cleat from a 2/4 with a few 3/4'' holes drilled in it, screwed it to the wall, and stuck a few random pieces of pipe into it for some nice dividers to keep thinks from tipping. A bungie stops runaways from smacking into LOML's car.
(To the left you can see my vertical sheet goods storage rack)

[george wilson]

Did anyone mention that storing boards vertically will eventually cause them to warp?

[Jason Hanko]

Did anyone mention that storing boards vertically will eventually cause them to warp?
I think the general consensus (http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?t=125448&highlight=vertical+storage) is that as long as it is done with proper support (ie: not just leaning it against a wall) there should be no issues at all. Trees do grow vertically, after all.:D