Repurposing Stuff

HawkTheSlayer wrote:

Daily Bread wrote:

Sprintcyclist wrote:Can repurpose some wood a neighbour is throwing out.
Am planning on making some drawers to store stuff in downstairs.
Saw some scrap wood in their skip the other day, left a letter in their letter box asking if I can take some.
It is always better to ask.

Yup , there's no such thing as garbage wood . Its all reusable and you can always use old scrap to make something new about it .
Let me take this time to apologise for those past insults I've thrown at you - everyone's opinion is as valuable as the next and I was abusive with mine . I owe you a beer .

It can get pretty small though.
My pop gets a lot of small , unusable pieces in the wood shop.  He doesnt waste anything . No one born in 1931 wastes anything.

He throws those small pieces in a hundred pack sack on a mounted rack.

It's just so much sometimes. We can't use it all.

Nothing burns hotter than small pieces of cypress or cedar. If a cypress, shotgun house caught fire here, it burned so hot , it could set the whole neighborhood on fire.

But I've saved 4 of those sacks so far for fire starters.

jirqoadai wrote:

HawkTheSlayer wrote:

Daily Bread wrote:

Sprintcyclist wrote:Can repurpose some wood a neighbour is throwing out.
Am planning on making some drawers to store stuff in downstairs.
Saw some scrap wood in their skip the other day, left a letter in their letter box asking if I can take some.
It is always better to ask.

Yup , there's no such thing as garbage wood . Its all reusable and you can always use old scrap to make something new about it .
Let me take this time to apologise for those past insults I've thrown at you - everyone's opinion is as valuable as the next and I was abusive with mine . I owe you a beer .

It can get pretty small though.
My pop gets a lot of small , unusable pieces in the wood shop.  He doesnt waste anything . No one born in 1931 wastes anything.

He throws those small pieces in a hundred pack sack on a mounted rack.

It's just so much sometimes. We can't use it all.

Nothing burns hotter than small pieces of cypress or cedar. If a cypress, shotgun house caught fire here, it burned so hot , it could set the whole neighborhood on fire.

But I've saved 4 of those sacks so far for fire starters.

thats what dryer lint is for. firestarters. well that and plugging holes in your body. its also a great idea to keep a bandana around your neck or forhead. and a whittling stick in your pocket to tighten the bandana with do you gotta also keep a round artery stone in your pocket too.

HawkTheSlayer wrote:

jirqoadai wrote:

HawkTheSlayer wrote:

Daily Bread wrote:

Sprintcyclist wrote:Can repurpose some wood a neighbour is throwing out.
Am planning on making some drawers to store stuff in downstairs.
Saw some scrap wood in their skip the other day, left a letter in their letter box asking if I can take some.
It is always better to ask.

Yup , there's no such thing as garbage wood . Its all reusable and you can always use old scrap to make something new about it .
Let me take this time to apologise for those past insults I've thrown at you - everyone's opinion is as valuable as the next and I was abusive with mine . I owe you a beer .

It can get pretty small though.
My pop gets a lot of small , unusable pieces in the wood shop.  He doesnt waste anything . No one born in 1931 wastes anything.

He throws those small pieces in a hundred pack sack on a mounted rack.

It's just so much sometimes. We can't use it all.

Nothing burns hotter than small pieces of cypress or cedar. If a cypress, shotgun house caught fire here, it burned so hot , it could set the whole neighborhood on fire.

But I've saved 4 of those sacks so far for fire starters.

thats what dryer lint is for. firestarters. well that and plugging holes in your body. its also a great idea to keep a bandana around your neck or forhead. and a whittling stick in your pocket to tighten the bandana with do you gotta also keep a round artery stone in your pocket too.

That sounds like some millennial stuff. Weak.

Hmmmm. You never used shed sycamore or cottonwood bark for fire starter!?
Or willow fiber roots that grow about four feet off the ground after a flooding episode ?
You ain't got injun in you.

Only fiegned history of what what we all used to be.

jirqoadai wrote:

HawkTheSlayer wrote:

jirqoadai wrote:

HawkTheSlayer wrote:

Daily Bread wrote:
Yup , there's no such thing as garbage wood . Its all reusable and you can always use old scrap to make something new about it .
Let me take this time to apologise for those past insults I've thrown at you - everyone's opinion is as valuable as the next and I was abusive with mine . I owe you a beer .

It can get pretty small though.
My pop gets a lot of small , unusable pieces in the wood shop.  He doesnt waste anything . No one born in 1931 wastes anything.

He throws those small pieces in a hundred pack sack on a mounted rack.

It's just so much sometimes. We can't use it all.

Nothing burns hotter than small pieces of cypress or cedar. If a cypress, shotgun house caught fire here, it burned so hot , it could set the whole neighborhood on fire.

But I've saved 4 of those sacks so far for fire starters.

thats what dryer lint is for. firestarters. well that and plugging holes in your body. its also a great idea to keep a bandana around your neck or forhead. and a whittling stick in your pocket to tighten the bandana with do you gotta also keep a round artery stone in your pocket too.

That sounds like some millennial stuff. Weak.

Hmmmm. You never used shed sycamore or cottonwood bark for fire starter!?
Or willow fiber roots that grow about four feet off the ground after a flooding episode ?
You ain't got injun in you.

Only fiegned history of what what we all used to be.

no. people were using lint to start fires at least as long ago as 1781. try agn.

vege57 wrote:

jirqoadai wrote:

HawkTheSlayer wrote:

jirqoadai wrote:

HawkTheSlayer wrote:

It can get pretty small though.
My pop gets a lot of small , unusable pieces in the wood shop.  He doesnt waste anything . No one born in 1931 wastes anything.

He throws those small pieces in a hundred pack sack on a mounted rack.

It's just so much sometimes. We can't use it all.

Nothing burns hotter than small pieces of cypress or cedar. If a cypress, shotgun house caught fire here, it burned so hot , it could set the whole neighborhood on fire.

But I've saved 4 of those sacks so far for fire starters.

thats what dryer lint is for. firestarters. well that and plugging holes in your body. its also a great idea to keep a bandana around your neck or forhead. and a whittling stick in your pocket to tighten the bandana with do you gotta also keep a round artery stone in your pocket too.

That sounds like some millennial stuff. Weak.

Hmmmm. You never used shed sycamore or cottonwood bark for fire starter!?
Or willow fiber roots that grow about four feet off the ground after a flooding episode ?
You ain't got injun in you.

Only fiegned history of what what we all used to be.

no. people were using lint to start fires at least as long ago as 1781. try agn.

Big navels back then, and that waxy fatty residue right in the bottom would burn well

Calypso Jones wrote:I kept cotton balls rubbed in vaseline and stored in a glass jar for fire starter.  I hear that old rancid oil..like crisco is good as a firestarter too.

Crusader wrote:

Calypso Jones wrote:I kept cotton balls rubbed in vaseline and stored in a glass jar for fire starter.  I hear that old rancid oil..like crisco is good as a firestarter too.

Hand sanitizer is a great fire starter.  A bead on concrete will burn for over a minute.

Calypso Jones wrote:I kept cotton balls rubbed in vaseline and stored in a glass jar for fire starter.  I hear that old rancid oil..like crisco is good as a firestarter too.

Crusader wrote:

Calypso Jones wrote:I kept cotton balls rubbed in vaseline and stored in a glass jar for fire starter.  I hear that old rancid oil..like crisco is good as a firestarter too.

Hand sanitizer is a great fire starter.  A bead on concrete will burn for over a minute.