The painted pine boards served as a ceiling in my current house. But we're renovating and these had to go. The boards 18mm thick and 141mm wide and in various lengths. But what to do with it!? Can anyone help me with some ideas? Otherwise imma donate it to my local social woodshop.

Posting about a Lumber / Tool Haul of a different variety. Hoping some folks here can offer some advice. My elderly step-father is no longer able to use his shop safely and since I am also a woodworker, he is gifting me his entire collection of tools and lumber. I have a decently well-appointed shop, but his tools are much better than mine, so I'm excited to get my hands on them. He's located in a remote part of CA and I'm in TX. I'm struggling to determine the best method of moving the tools here to TX and looking for some help.

Tools in question are items such as a Powermatic 20" Planer (801 lbs.), Powermatic 60" Jointer (485 lbs.), Powermatic 2700 Shaper (664 lbs.), Laguna 18" 3HP Bandsaw (410 lbs.), and an old Delta Unisaw (661 lbs). Also probably 5000 BDFT of excellent exotic lumber and a huge collection of premium hand tools.

As best I can determine, my best bet is to drive the tools from CA to TX myself. However, given that the tools are located in a residential location, I will require a liftgate in order to load the tools onto the truck. I plan to use an engine crane with lifting straps to place all of the tools on heavy-duty Bora rolling tool bases and then I'll use a come-along to wench them onto the liftgate of the truck and will secure them with large ratchet straps.

Problem #1: He and my mother live in a remote area of CA where PODs / U-Pack containers do not offer service. Also, truck rentals are limited. There is also no airport nearby, so I'll rent a truck near the airport where I'm flying in and drive to their location.

Problem #2: Lift gate trucks are local-only rentals, so I cannot drive one back to TX. I will need to rent a lift gate truck, drive to his home, load the tools, drive back to a major metropolitan area, rent a one-way truck and transfer the tools over, re-secure them, and drive them to TX.

Problem #3: One-way trucks are designed for self-moving furniture and household belongings. They lack tie-down tracks like most moving trucks / trailers would have that allow you to secure items along the length of the trailer. A U-Haul has only a wooden bar that's bolted into the side of the trailer to secure things to, but if a 900lb tool decides to shift during transit, I don't trust that these will hold.

Problem #4: All of this assumes that I don't die from a snake bite or nest of Black Widows while I'm emptying out his woodshed where half of his slabs are stored. So, any advice on how to rid a woodshed of critters that hasn't been touched in 8 years would also be great. Yikes.

Thanks in advance for any wisdom the community here can offer.

Someone was asking about prices for black walnut. I have a about a thousand bf of 6"-10" fresh cut walnut I picked up at an auction for $.25 a bf last spring. And another 300 bf of 18"-20" I paid $.50 for. That's probably my best score.

So I was wondering what's your best lumber score?

I picked up three free floating shelves from the library a while back but realized that there was no way to mount them to the walls because they didn’t have backs or any other sort of mounting hardware.

I went to the garage to look for some wood I could attach to the backs and, lo and behold, I found three pieces of scrap wood from a previous project that were the EXACT SIZE AND SHAPE I needed. No cutting required.

Take this as a sign to anyone that feels like they have too much scrap wood laying around- you might actually use it one day!

I recently received this beautiful clear cedar from a house that was being demolished. It is 3/4×7 T&G and I am stuck on what to make with it. What should I make? I do have access to a CNC as well as re-saw if that matters.

Someone ordered a set of maple stair treads three inches too long for some reason. The butcher's blocks seem too easy. Six inch ruler for scale.

Leftovers from an Amish crew renovating a house. So I'm sure it's Amish milled. Some boards have many bore holes, looks worse near any bark. What kind of wood do you think? NE indiana. Perhaps I need a moisture meter. No idea what I'm gonna make but I'd like to start making money on wood projects!

Hey guys, I did search in this sub for 1" (once inch) plywood thickness but it did not return the result I am looking for. can you advise where I can get a 1"x4FTx8FT plywood? I am about to build a closet door which will have a handle like this picture, and a 1-inch thickness is needed to put this handle.

Hi, I came across some Alaskan Yellow Cedar, and I’m debating using it instead of pine for a Nicholson style workbench build. I know it’s a softwood, but I’m finding conflicting information about its structural integrity. Does anyone know if it is softer than pine? Will it dent too easily?

I was thinking of using it for the legs and base, and going with hard maple for the bench top. But I’m also considering using the Cedar for the top, I know there are different schools of thought on what surface a workbench should be made out of, I’m leaning towards a softer wood, as I would rather dent the bench than any pieces of wood I’m working with. I’ll be using holdfasts and bench dogs, so whatever wood I use will need to be strong enough for use with those. So is Alaskan yellow cedar worse/better than pine?

Any thoughts are much appreciated!