There's A Table in There Somewhere! #1: The Beginning

A little metal detector time , and you will have some terrific material ! A future project with chain of custody – very cool !

Man that’s a real bonanza of building stock.I expect that you’ll have enough material for quite a few projects.Have fun and keep us posted

-- Mike www.midlothianwoodworks.com

Wow, that engrain almost looks like zebrawood! Good hunting.

-- Jojo, shopless in Kyoto · http://twitter.com/kagushokunin

I did not expect a good supply of fine pine from that old store/house., looks like every piece is rotten plank from outside.
Good luck with your table building!

-- masrol, kuala lumpur, MY.

Thanks Folks!
Socal: I finally got a Lumber Wizard…we’ll see how it works.

Woodworm: Much of that particular structure is rotten. Someone robbed the tin roofing to put on another buillding and just left it to the weather. Although sooner or later it will rot, heart pine is very weather resistant because of the pitch content and is termite risistant also.

-- Carl Rast, Pelion, SC

Thanks Carl Rast for your reply.
I like pine as most of us do. I’ve been pilling up shipping palletes salvaged from dumping ground. I have little knowledge of wood species, by looking at the wood grain, I guess they are all pine. Is the board in this pic pine?

I managed to get 3-1/2” x 2” by 4ft to 5ft long and also 1” thick by 3” to 7”wide of various lenghts. But the bad thing with beautiful wood like pine is I do not use it for just any project. It is very hard to find pine in my country (dimensioned and laminated boards is available at IKEA store) so I always buy local species.

Thanks for sharing with us.
P/s : I bought a small metal detector after my jack plane hit a hidden brad. Now I have peace of mind working with shipping pallete.

-- masrol, kuala lumpur, MY.

You’re certainly welcome Sir! That sure looks like some type of pine to me. The heart pine I’ve posted is all Southern Longleaf Pine. Besides, loblolly and some slash pine, that’s about all we’ve got around here. Here’s a picture of my pile in the barn that we’ve had since the early 70’s.

-- Carl Rast, Pelion, SC

Wow!
If your barn is just 50miles away from here in KL, I would be happy to give you hand clearing it and extracting the nails and brads for you and some for me….LOL.

I enjoyed looking at others’ shops, tools and lumber!
Thanks.

-- masrol, kuala lumpur, MY.

That sounds like a fair deal to me…lol.

-- Carl Rast, Pelion, SC