Project by EmeraldDragon | posted 09-04-2012 06:18 PM | 2700 views | 1 time favorited | 11 comments | ![]() |
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The owner of a local recycling center took a liking to me and gave me as much recycled wood as I need for free!!!!! These shipping crates are 3 feet by 4 1/2 feet plus the boards are 1 inch thick! There is so much wood at his place, he said I can come back anytime and get as much as I want. Then he took me inside the plant and in a large area, there is a man setting up a huge woodworking shop. That man told me I could work there anytime I want for free!!!! Industrial size sanders, drills, lathes….......... God blessed me today!!! Thank you, God!
-- There are countless woodworking plans but have you checked out God's plan? Jeremiah 29:11
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Monte Pittman
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#1 posted 09-04-2012 06:21 PM
Never enough wood. Take all you can get. Good job.
-- Mother Nature created it, I just assemble it.
Dusty56
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#2 posted 09-04-2012 07:42 PM
I guess you have been blessed in more ways than one : )
Is this your completed project ?
-- I'm absolutely positive that I couldn't be more uncertain!
jaykaypur
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#3 posted 09-04-2012 07:44 PM
What a great “get” and invitation.
Congratulations.
-- Use it up, Wear it out --------------- Make it do, Or do without!
Fishinbo
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#4 posted 09-04-2012 09:32 PM
You are one lucky man.
Best of luck with your plans with it!
Chris McDowell
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#5 posted 09-04-2012 11:46 PM
Wow, that is awesome. What a blessing for sure!
-- Chris, http://www.youtube.com/CMRwoodworks , FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/cmrwoodworks1 , Proverbs 16:9
Tom Godfrey
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#6 posted 09-05-2012 01:27 AM
I use to have a place where I could get plenty of scrap wood but sorry to say they went out of business. They had those long 8 to 10 feet pallets with plenty of 2×4’s and of course the standard shipping pallets. I was able to build several building with the scrap lumber. Some times I would just stack the pallets to make walls then tie them together. Sure miss my free scrap wood.
-- Tom Godfrey Landrum South Carolina (tomhcww@gmail.com)
Prplhrtjarhead
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#7 posted 09-05-2012 01:52 AM
It’s nice when you are smiled upon.
I work at a trailer manufacturing company and when we get steel trucks in with raw material, there is a bunch of dunnage that comes thru and there is some nice wood. Lot’s of oak, rough sawn about 3” x 3”. I recycle a lot of that at the home shop. Not to mention the tons of pine that is useful for smaller projects and trial runs, experimenting, etc.
Good Luck.
-- "We'll preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we'll sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness." R. Reagan, "The Speech", 1964
AngieO
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#8 posted 09-05-2012 11:43 AM
That is awesome! God was absolutely watching over you. Great score!
b2rtch
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#9 posted 09-05-2012 12:41 PM
Hallelu Yah!
I pray that God will keep watching your fingers as you work with big machinery.
-- Bert
HardWoodHead
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#10 posted 09-05-2012 01:29 PM
Hey great news on the wood crate supply score! I pick up lumber and wood every chance I get. It is valuable in the hands of a craftsman. One trip to the lumber store to buy a single piece of dimensional lumber in even plain old Pine is a quick lesson on how costly the stuff is. Also no telling what you can learn working in that woodworking shop, even when not getting paid. I wish I could do the same and maybe I will when I retire.
-- Dan Benson---Hitchcock, Texas......Got wood?
Buke27
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#11 posted 09-05-2012 05:46 PM
Jealous!
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