Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
There is a local project under way to replace a power transmission line from the big Moses-Saunders dam on the St Lawrence to Utica. They're taking down the old power pole type towers and putting in much larger steel units. Every one of the old towers has what amounts to 2 crossed power pole braces that have never been in the ground. I'm told the contractors will drop as many as you want at your home. What a pole barn I could build! But, it seems someone must be grea$ing the $kid$ because none of these "free" poles are available. Same with the piles of used railroad ties we have locally. Can't get one, much less 50!A few years back, the local liquor store build a walk-in beer cooler, lots of large glass panels and doors.
I seen some of the nicest, straightest, grade 3 pine 8' boards, most were 1" x 10" in the dumpster out front, ...from the crating of those windows/doors..
The contractor had disassembled all the crates to fit in the dumpster, and did a nice job of not cracking/busting the boards, but they were full of nails. I asked a fella working there if is was OK for me to grab a few boards. He said take all I want. So I filled my pickup box. I've made a lot of shelves with those boards, still have a few stashed away.