Reclaimed Wood - Pet Steps

How did you aquire this wood? Did you go over late last night to get it?? (just joking with ya!) :-)
Looking very good Buckskin.

I made something similar to this for an older Peek-a-Poo dog I had for a very long time before she passed away at the age of 19-1/2 years. She couldn’t make it to the couch.

-- Carpe Lignum - Seize The Wood,

Last summer I called a local fence guy and asked if he had any panels he was going to trash. He said he had 3/4 ton flatbed pickup loaded with them. I then asked how much he wanted for them and he said if I bring them to you and you help me off load them you can have them.

From that load I have made a coffee table, end table and now this.

Gotta love free wood!

I love that intro… There used to be a privacy fence around someone’s yard…

and now our dog can climb up onto the couch (and look at the neighbors out the window through the hole in their fence)

Nice score. anything you can save from the landfill (and make useful again) is a wonderful thing

-- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/

I saw the tables and commented. They look great Buckskin. Ditto about the free wood!

A neighbor cut down an old oak tree. What I could carry or haul, he said I could have. I am taking a woodturning class at the Woodcraft Store in Indianapolis next month. Hopefully I can fill these pages soon with some type of turnings. Maybe something will be good enough to post in these hallowed halls of LumberJocks(?).

-- Carpe Lignum - Seize The Wood,

I need to take a lathe class myself. I bought one and have fiddled with it, but it has just been way to long since my Grandpa first showed me how to use his. I bet you will have something worthy!

Great Recycle. Nice steps.

-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

Exellent recycling!
Congratulations,
Oncle Jules

((applauding)) Great find/save/creation

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

So what are Pet Steps?

-- CanuckDon "I just love small wooden boxes!" http://www.hilsbiblechurch.org/

Don, they are ment to help small dogs or older dogs get up on couches or beds.

I always have to check out the reclaimed wood projects. They make up some of my favorites. Nice work.

-- Ron, Twain Harte, Ca. Portable on site Sawmill Service http://westcoastlands.net/Sawmill.html http://westcoastlands.net/SawBucks2/phpBB3 http://www.portablesawmill.biz/concrete/

I keep seeing projects built with old fencing. A bowl, a gun rack and now this. My fence company has been piling up old fencing and tops of pickets cut from new fencing, for about two years now. We contacted a company to haul it all off and it came to over $5,000 just to give you an idea of how much old fencing we normally have on hand. It’s been kind of a… community scrap wood pile. People come and get cedar or pt pine and build planters, gates or whatever. Recycling old fence materials is the way to go.

-- Brent Builds Fences in Georgia http://www.profenceworks.com http://www.profenceworks.com/wood_fencing/custom.html

good use of reclaimed wood

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop Southern Oregon

I agree about the old fence. In fact the materials used for this I received from a local fence company. When I called he had them on his truck and delivered them to my house free of charge. Saved him having to dispose of them.

Thanks for the comments as I have not been active here in a very long time. I still lurk occasionally.