The Spoils of Hurricane Matthew
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It has been the most chaotic year of my life.  I had not clue someone could be so busy all of the time and not even realize it.  I had only just finished cleaning up from Matthew when Irma came through.  Luckily that one did not hit us bad but it still extended storm cleanup time for me by another 2 months.  When I have not been behind a chainsaw, I have been maintaining, rebuilding, and tuning them along with a slew of other tree care equipment.  I have not been too active on here but to sell a few items and make some quick comments. However, I am also not so arrogant to think that anyone noticed.
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Through all that I have actually got some projects done too and I thought I would share them with all of you.  Not going to get into too much detail here and just let the pictures do the talking.  Everything you see here was built mostly out of storm damaged material or stuff I salvaged because of Matthew.

First up is the tree that fell in my yard.  I have a 1/2 acre wood lot behind my house and this fell from that into the back yard.  No damage to any structures.

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Pile was actually 3 times this big but I did not take anymore pics.

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I did that chainsaw milling in November of 2016. Fast forward to April of 2017. Decent little leanto onto the back of the garage. The F-250 will live here.

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Here is a trailer I built out of a metal canopy that blown away. All the structure was made from salvage material. The deck was made from salvaged Ipe from a dock that got destroyed and ended up in the pile of debris in the last two pictures. Yeah, I have Ipe decking on my trailer.

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Then I built this table out of more Ipe that was salvaged. I still have enough to build another one if I want to.

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And you can also build quite a bench from a few more salvaged materials.

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Looks like have been busy and made good use of the salvage.  I too have salvaged Ipe.  My planer does not like Ipe and my fingers do not like the splinters.
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(11-16-2017, 08:29 PM)Bill Holt Wrote: Looks like have been busy and made good use of the salvage.  I too have salvaged Ipe.  My planer does not like Ipe and my fingers do not like the splinters.

That is the sole reason I got the Byrd head for my DW735.
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Makes me wish hurricanes came through my part of the country. Almost.

It is a lot of work that you just shared with us, but as you know the material is worth it. Well done.
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Really like the workbench.
Wish I had your energy...
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Yeah, the bench is really nice. Know what species wood that is?
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Loblolly pine. Heaviest and densest of all the common SYP species.
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