Here’s a picture of my woodworking project this last weekend. I spent most of Saturday doing this and here’s what I have to show for the work:
Yup it’s an empty space on the side of the house, just outside my shop. I didn’t think to take a before picture. Sigh. What was here, was a lumber rack with a ton of crappy wood. Stuff that came from various demolition projects around the house over the last ten years. I was save some of it because I thought I might reuse it, but I finally accepted that I’d never use most of it. The wood was just sitting the slowly rotting and collecting bugs.
So I loaded it all up and drove it over to the local landfill and their wood recycling program. They do various things with it – grind it for mulch, make wood stove pellets, and other things. And they charge you for it. Cost me $50 to recycle a truck full of scrap wood.
I did keep some of the better pieces and have a few projects from that I’ll doing this summer. For now I’ve gained a clean yard and a reduction in spider habitat.
If you need me, I’ll be in the shop,
Andrew
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Why is it on a sidewalk? When you look away in a few seconds it will be gone (If its on a sidewalk). Anyway, funny post and nice photo (I guess).
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Whoops! Fingers weren’t keeping up with m brain —- *when you ARE charged so much*.
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My fingers have trouble keeping up with my brain too. It seems like a lot to recycle, but if it was sent to the landfill it would have cost at least twice as much and getting a trash hauler to pick it up at the house could easily have gone up to $150. So, all considered, it was the cheapest option. Around here trash is getting expensive to get rid of.
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It just seems like no incentive to recycle when you charged so much, but you did the right thing.
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I bet it feels good to have gotten rid of it, and hopefully for a good cause. And now you’ve got that cleared space! Bummer about the $50. I would’ve thought instead, bonfire! But you’re clearly a better person than I. (Although my plan involved marshmallows.)
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I did think of bonfire, but then also thought of fire engines, police, upset neighbors, lawsuits, etc. Sadly there are lot of people in this city who are just against good fun and roasting marshmallows.
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Come on, people, the drought is over!
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😉
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We have a wood pile like that…. may take a few years to get to it. Kudos to you for tackling yours.
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Well, it took me ten years to tackle mine.
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Nice post!…
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thanks.
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Sometimes it’s my tidy spots I’m most proud of, though no one else can see my hard work. I’d say you did well.
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Thanks – although it would be more impressive with a before picture.
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My what we’ve come to–paying to recycle. Sigh.
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and what I didn’t mention in the post – it was a two hour wait in line to dump my load of scrap. Another reason for so much illegal trash dumping in our cities.
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To charge you so much for doing the right thing is dreadful!
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Yes, it use to be free to dump with the landfill company making a small profit selling the scrap. Recently there’s been a glut of scrap, prices fell and landfill company stopping making a profit, so now they charge a fee to handle the material. The only good news is that the recycle fee is about half what they change to dump the same amount in the landfill.
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Sounds like all that scrap will be put to good use.
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There’s a lot of pressure here to keep things out of the landfill, so they do a lot of recycling of used building materials.
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and you freed up some space to build new things lol, sounds like me in my gardens!
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Yes, the area is now a new construction zone, rather than a trash dump.
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