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Ben Rafael
09-25-2010, 1:30 PM
My neighbor is getting rid of several cedar 4x4s. They are very weathered but in good shape.
Besides fencing, is there any good use for them?
Thanks.

Angie Orfanedes
09-25-2010, 1:33 PM
mini-totem poles, wood spirits, fire wood ?

Lance Norris
09-25-2010, 1:34 PM
Bandsawn boxes of course...

http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?t=81661

http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?t=81703

Mike Harrison
09-25-2010, 11:36 PM
Slice them up into some 1X material and make an adarondak chair or two. I took down some fencing and helped a friend make a couple of chairs. Both his daughters wanted them, because they were "rustic"....??

Ben Davis
09-26-2010, 8:07 AM
feet/supports for planters boxes or window boxes.

David Prince
09-26-2010, 8:38 AM
Landscape edging.

Frank Drew
09-26-2010, 10:18 AM
Porch roof posts; newel or other posts for exterior balustrades/railings.

Larry Nall
09-26-2010, 1:45 PM
I built a nice pergola with cedar posts.

Ben Rafael
09-27-2010, 12:33 PM
Adirondack chairs it is.
Let the milling begin.

David Thompson 27577
09-27-2010, 2:11 PM
When I first got married, for the first time (1975), I made a couch for our first apartment -- using cedar 4X4's. I had seen a plan in one of the woodworking mags.

Basically, it was a frame of 4X4's, very specifically placed, so that when you wrapped it with rope, the seat had a gentle slope, as did the back.

And once the rope was laced and tightened, some throw-pillows were all that were needed.

We gave it away some years later, when finances allowed the purchase of something less rustic-looking.