Used building materials

SVcummins · Dec 31, 2020

I thought I posted but maybe the Bermuda Triangle got it I don’t know. I built this little barn out of material from an old shed a friends mother tore down this actually the third life these boards have lived in their first life they were a giant pipe that pipes water between two power generating plants about 2 miles distance between the two sometime in the 80s they replaced a big section of pipe with steel and then people took these boards and made all kinds of buildings and corrals with them we had two corrals and a garage made from these boards .

grandpa Love · Jan 1, 2021

I love recycled materials. My barn was a boat house on a lake 60 miles away. I even re- used the shingles when I put it together in my yard 12+ years ago. 4 years ago we took it apart and moved it next door. Added a 2nd floor. Abd tin roof. Got lean-to on both sides. Grand total cost.......$1000. That's the plywood floor and metal roof on barn. Lean tos were free.

JK-NY · Jan 1, 2021

I have a 2 car garage here that is at its third home. My dad tore down a small motel and garage in the late 1960’s to make way for highway construction. Then we built a house down the road from our house that was rented out for years. The last tenant bought the house and decided to build a much larger garage so we took it down and I poured a slab and put it up. I made it 4 feet longer and also extended the roof on one side as an open bay 10 feet wide. Around 1960 or 1961 my dad took down two small houses that were in the path of where I-81 was going to be built. He used the lumber to build his house and a large 2 car garage on land my grandfather gave him. Back then you could bid on the houses and had to have them down by a deadline. There were no insurance requirements or any other red tape. New York State was a great place back then.

DoubleO7 · Jan 1, 2021

Was that p pipe lumber redwood?

Dad and I dismantled several vats inside a apple juice/cider/vinegar processing plant that went belly up.
The place had been doing apple processing for 60+ years.
The vats were 12 feet in dia. And 12 feet high. Vertical wood with iron hoops like a giant straight sided whiskey barrel.
Each board in the vats were about 6" x 3" x 12'
And all were redwood.

fixerupper · Jan 1, 2021

I used to tear down buildings for the lumber. For the first 20 years of my farming career I didn't know what new lumber was, everything I build out of wood was used lumber. I used carbide tipped blades in my skill saw because of the errant nails. Eventually when the saw blade had too many carbide tips missing I bought a new blade. It was a treat to use new lumber when I finally could afford to use it. With the price of new lumber today maybe I will have to resort to tearing buildings down for lumber again?

Two corn cribs I tore down back then were built with used lumber around the turn of the century. (to me that's 1900!). My neighborhood saw it's first habitation in the 1870's so I don't know where this used lumber came from in around 1900. I suppose some quick shacks could have been thrown up in the mid-1870's to be torn down 30 years later when more substantial buildings were built.

Pete in Holland MI · Jan 1, 2021

Nice reuse of materials, but the roof would be stronger & less apt to sag if your rafters were stood on edge rather than flat as shown.

Cool project !

IowaJohn · Jan 1, 2021

I've got alot of used lumber stored inside. I had plans for a some of it but now not so much. The best of it is 40, 20'+ full 2*4 rafters out of a corncrib. The inside plate was laid at an angle so they're not notched. They're stored inside on cement laying on edge, hopefully they haven't warped. Not sure what I'm going to do with them now.

SVcummins · Jan 1, 2021

Pete we are going to re design the roof with osb 2x4 and tin when they weather gets warmer this is actually the second year the barn has been up last year we just nailed the tarp to the 2x4 this year we spread the tarp and then screwed 2x4 down on top of the tarp to sandwich the tarp between the two boards

SVcummins · Jan 1, 2021

Fixerupper I don’t buy to much lumber because I’m not a
builder by any stretch of the imagination. I needed a 2 x 12 for
my dump truck to make dirt sides a 16 footer at the lumber
yard was 48$ the local sawmill had a rough cut for 22$ .

SVcummins · Jan 1, 2021

This is what the pipe looks like this photo shows mostly the
one steel section but if you look closely to the left of the photo
you can see the one wood section and then the other wood
section is where you can see the ice froze to it . My corral is
built from the long metal bolts that went around the outside of
the pipe

SVcummins · Jan 1, 2021

That was the biggest factor driving the barn construction for my was cost I looked at some prebuilt horse barns and they wanted 900 to 1200.00 dollars I didn’t have 900.00$ but I had some old lumber and a post hole digger and a nephew. . I think all tolled I have about 250$ into this little barn

formerly ny bill · Jan 2, 2021

nice picture, it would make a good puzzle.

K Effective · Jan 2, 2021

Dad and I disassembled a second house here on the farm back in 1975, the hired man and his family lived there full time until about 1970. I still have lumber from that in the rafters of the cow barn. There are also old oak boards from packing crates Grandpa received goods in for his General Store, which he sold before I was born in 1965. We had been using them as slats in the hay bunkers, but the wood is so hard it has to be drilled and bolted together- nails and screws snap off or bend over.

When we remodeled the house, built in 1927, we found three levels of dimensional lumber used- modern 3.5X1.5, finished 2X4 and rough-sawn 2X4, reused from some earlier building, even before the Depression hit.

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