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Thread: What $200 of plywood looks like

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    Smile What $200 of plywood looks like

    Saw the following listed on CL:

    Plywood $10 full sheet, $5 a half sheet:
    1/2" thick 24x48 -29pcs, 29x48.5 8pcs, + a few at 48x48.5,60x60,23x65,57x58,15x40..more.
    3/8" Thk; 60x60-3pcs
    3/16"Thk; 60x60-16pcs

    The 1/2" stuff was Maple faced, poplar core. The 3/8" 60x60 stock was the real deal, baltic birch (which he wanted $10/sheet for.) The 3/16" ply was junk (The stuff they protect the good stuff with when they ship it) but I turned up some additional 3/4" and 1/2" BB sheets. I picked out about $185 worth (as much cash as I had with me.) I noticed there were some big remnants of Markalon (Lexan) and asked how much he wanted for them... and then I saw there were also a ton of off-cut ply pieces from about 8"x12" to about 12"x24". He said what about $200 for everything... we can take credit card if you like. For $15 more, I get 20 or so pieces of Lexan, plus a hundred or more smaller pieces of ply... "hell, yeah" I happily agreed, thinking he meant all the remnants + what I picked out. When I came back after the lunch break, his guy had loaded up absolutely everything. I was giddy.

    They used a crane to lower it from the upper floor, down to where my truck was. Because of the 60"x60" stock we couldn't just drop it into my truck bed. So I spent the next hour or so playing Tetris, and packing the bed as well as I could. I had about zero suspension travel when I was done... but luckily only had about 4 miles to drive it. Got it home without incident. Unfortunately, I made the mistake of posting the photos/video on Facebook... a rash of shoulder/back injuries/and related ailments befell my friends who might have helped unload my truck.

    Here's what it looked like:


    On the pallet by denovich, on Flickr

    Video of crane lowering the wood:
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/denovich/5620416933/


    Truckload of plywood. by denovich, on Flickr

    I'm soooo glad I balked at paying close to $50 a sheet for the dodgy looking Purebond ply available at the big box stores.

    I think this should keep me busy.

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    Nice score. Looks like it will keep you busy just unloading it.
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    Looks like you are SLIGHTLY overloaded. Nice score. I hope you had lots of straps and avoided the DOT. Have fun making lots of stuff.
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    Yeah, it was only a 5 minute drive on secondary roads to get home. I had the tailgate up, and boards vertical to the sides to fence it all in. Everything stayed put. The top of the stack was also only the largest pieces, including a bunch of 3/4" ply jigs (his tenant was a hot tub manufacturer that went out of business.)

    There was also stuff in the back and front seats.

    A good day... now I need to figure out where to put the damn stuff. Thanks to CL this year I've acquired about 1000bf of lumber, 30 odd sheets of veneered MDF (mostly 3/4") and now this pile.

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    nice score! Love the story.
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    Very nice. What Ya goin ta bild?

    I was ordering from my plastic supplier one day and told him to add $100 to the bill and send me some misc scrap. I got 4 boxes totaling 280#, much of it HMW, and all kinds of cool stuff I didn't even know existed.

    Love grab bags and screaming deals.

    By the way I just bought some prefinished maple, wholesale 1/2 was $57, 3/4 was $78, so you did all right.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Larry Edgerton View Post
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    By the way I just bought some prefinished maple, wholesale 1/2 was $57, 3/4 was $78, so you did all right.
    +1 here. Nice score. I have a $1,700 pile of 3/4" inch stuff in my shop right now (cabinets on the hoof as I call the pile) that is not 1/2 as big as the one you have there.
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    Nice score, but, here is the inevitable YOU SUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave Gaul View Post
    Nice score, but, here is the inevitable YOU SUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!
    Thank you... It makes the deal that much sweeter.

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