Might need it someday

37chief · Jul 24, 2018

I have a fairly big pile of good used 2 x 6's some x 18 Some 2x6 by 10. I never used many of them, because I may need them someday. They were stacked inside for years. Don't know what I was saving them for. I used a lot of them for a new roof on a small shed now. I guess I just like stuff I can use sometime. I have spare stuff I probably will never use. I have a spare gear box for both of my mowers. Dad was never like this. I guess I'm some what of a hoarder, because I rarely throw anything out. Don't want to even mention my tractors. My kids are going to end up with a mess some day. Anyone else have this problem? Stan

Crazy Horse · Jul 24, 2018

So who said it's a problem ???? It's just a HOBBY !!!! I'm with you, especially with wood.

Geo-TH,In · Jul 24, 2018

Stan,
I always like shopping for used lumber in my warehouse. The price is right.

Been helping friend with his horse barn. My inventory of used lumber is running very low.

Fawteen · Jul 24, 2018

That's not a problem, that's a skill!

As long as I can keep it inside out of the weather, I'll hold on to almost anything I even suspect I might have a use for some day.

I just hope the yard sale after my funeral nets enough to pay for the junk man to come and haul the rest of it off...

K Effective · Jul 24, 2018

Dad and I "deconstructed" the old hired-man's house on the farm back in the early 1970's, nail by nail, saving all of them. Lots of cut nails in the framing got straightened over the next few winters. When we started to remodel the main house here around 2000, I was glad to find re-purposed rough-sawn lumber already in the framing up in the attic. We re-used a majority of the lumber we remodeled out of this house, along with some new. This place now has lumber from pre-1927, 1927ish, whatever year the hired man''s house was from, and 2000, a blend of the history of the farm.

UncleTom · Jul 24, 2018

I think a lot of it is once upon a time when you had nothing you learn to save anything and everything that has value and that can save your but later. School of hard knocks.

carvel minne farmer · Jul 24, 2018

that's not a problem stan, i'm the same way, I have stuff stashed all over the place (never know you might need it!) the real funny part is family, friends, and neighbors know this and on a regular basis the phone will go and I hear "hey john have you got in your stash a -------?? as my dad used to say "its better to be looking at it than for it" :lol:

RedMF40 · Jul 24, 2018

In my area on the right side of the country many perfectly good building materials are trashed. People are interested in saving time, not resources. I like to re-use or repurpose anything I think still has some life left in it. I have the luxury now of a loft above my workshop--If I can get it up the stairs, the material has a place out of the weather.

grizz02 · Jul 24, 2018

I have a pile like that I run them through the table saw and make what ever I need a lot cheaper the running down and paying 3 to 4 dollars a board if there not in the way keep em 👍

snoopnc · Jul 24, 2018

37chief ... this collecting / saving / hoarding is genetic. Yes ... you said that your dad was NOT that way, but it?s been proven to be a ?recessive? gene and somewhere in your mom?s background there was also a compulsive saver. It is just a quirk of nature that came out in your genetic makeup with no real effective treatment known to science. Enjoy your life and don?t worry about it!

Two Dogs · Jul 24, 2018

What problem?

TomH in PA · Jul 24, 2018

It isn't a problem if you use something from your stash when you need it.

There is a problem if you need something from your stash, but go buy another because someday you might need the one you already have.

larry@stinescorner · Jul 24, 2018

tell me about it,,I may have to move all this (stuff)

daisyman · Jul 24, 2018

I'm the same way!! Nothing tickles me more than to go out in my stash and find just what I was looking for or something I could make it out of!!!!! :lol:

Irv

daisyman · Jul 24, 2018

I'm the same way!! Nothing tickles me more than to go out in my stash and find just what I was looking for or something I could make it out of!!!!! :lol:

Irv

504 · Jul 24, 2018

I torn down a 14X70 house trailer,it would surprise you how much good lumber you can save. I have a 40X60 round steel shed,both ends have been framed with used lumber including 4 8X8X16. I did bite the bullet and buy new steel for siding.
My brother was giving me a hard time about the path through the shed,I asked him if he had looked at his path in his shed? Then I asked if he had ever been in the attic at our Moms house or her basement? It is in the genes.

gtractorfan · Jul 24, 2018

Recently I needed a post driver for about a dozen steel posts. In my stash I found this heavy pipe, I drilled a hole and put a hitch pin thru, I works as well as a ready made one (except no handles).

Traditional Farmer · Jul 24, 2018

I have several racks of odds and ends steel,always going to them to get something.

farmerjohn · Jul 24, 2018

What stuff? I see lots and lots of floor.

RBnWA · Jul 24, 2018

Thro it away today you ll need it next week. RB

NEKS · Jul 24, 2018

Think uncletom said it right. When we built a new home many moons ago I tore down the old one and saved the lumber. Was looking for a 12 ft. 2x6. Found one and not a knot in it. Looked so good just about didn't use it. That house had a 14 inch overhang and that lumber was 14 inch wide boards.

Royse · Jul 24, 2018

My problem is that I've kept so much of it, I can't find it when needed.
And I know dang well I have it. Somewhere!

37chief · Jul 24, 2018

My brother is a hoarder. When he had to go to the hospital for a broken hip. We cleaned out his house. He had piles of papers piled every where. Most of it junk. He still hasn't got over that. Like you said there must be a recessive gene there somewhere. Stan

Duner Wi · Jul 25, 2018

At my place it is called Inventory.

larry@stinescorner · Jul 25, 2018

upstairs has more stuff

Nick m · Jul 25, 2018

We bought an old farm with a few sheds/barns. When we moved here there was so much junk I couldn't stand it. Lumber odds and ends, buckets of unsorted used bolts, used bent nails, you name it. Got it all cleaned up and swore I'd never be like that and wondered what I'd do with all of this room......took about 10yrs, but buildings are mostly full again.

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