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we have a job enlarging the masonry openings of overhead doors at an old warehouse in northern nj . Today someone was tearing out a large cabinet and going to throw these birch plywood doors in the trash. I asked him if Icould have them ., he said sure. As I was loading them on the truck my good friend , who is my foreman said ., what are you going to build with them? I anserd., I dont know yet. My other co worker. who is a neat freak and likes to throw everything away ., laughed I want to ask my friends on tractor talk, would you load them on the truck?? or listen to the neat freak?
 

HEY BUD:: HOW YOU DID? AND EVERY ONE.
MY answer is: ONE MANS JUNK IS ANOTHER MANS TREASURE;
It is better to have it and not need, than not have it and to need it.

HAVE A GOOD ONE TALK AT YA LATER>
JR.FRYE
 
heres the doors , finished on one side , painted on the other made of birch plywood I am sure I can use them around the farm
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If you have no idea what to use them for, I'll just about bet all of your fine friends on YT
will and can give you all kinds of IDEAS on what to make or buld out of them. YOU THINK>
JUST ASK THE QUESTION and you shall recive.
JR.FRYE
 
I am a neat freak AND a cabinet builder. If the wood was not useable, they would go in the trash quick!
 
I try not to be a packrat, but I can't stand to see anything of obvious value go in the trash. If those doors are solid, they will make nice workbench tops. If they're hollow, pitch 'em. You can't cut a hollow door down to size.
 
Darn right I'd load em up.....and have. My shop cabinets are from tear out remodle jobs. Worked for a company that worked in medical centers. Plywood is darn expensive nowdays and you have salvaged quite a sume of money. Yes it is used, but plenty can be made from what you salvaged and paint will fix the "old".

PS. Solid core doors make dandy worktops and counter tops to salvaged medical cabinets.

Almost scored about 30 feet of Diebold drawer and file cabinets from a bank. Those were nice.
 
good for you. i hate wasting anything esp wood. if it cant be used i keep it for fire wood.
be thankful you not only have a a job, but one you get good stuff off of as well
 
you are right , I am thankful. My foreman said we have to get three doors done, and the guy that laughed at me for taking the doors said we couldnt do 3 doors but the foreman and Idid the 3 doors and more while the neat guy swept up!
 
I sure got my share of stuff from work in my 36 years with the company I made a two hyd.cylinder log splitter with a trash compactor the company tossed out. I loaded so much 6in channel iron on Dad's 65 ford it was riding low in the back. The iron was from shelf racks. What was good is when the company had employee sales to get rid of excess stuff. Like all good things it came to a end about the time the maint supervisor was caught with a pickup load of stuff that was not excess inventory. Stan
 
I'd sure as heck load them up. We used to have a salvage system where I used to work. Until a matieral control supervisor got caught "salvaging" some brand new work benches. He "retired" that day.
 
I'd sure as heck load them up. We used to have a salvage system where I used to work. Until a matieral control supervisor got caught "salvaging" some brand new work benches. He "retired" that day.
 
You"ll find plenty of uses. Good find there. They would make for some good counter tops or table with another 5/8 or 3/4 laminated under them and some finish work.

When I was a kid, my dad an I took a solid oak door slab and made a nice frame under it. It became our kitchen table. Now, 35 years later, it"s the kitchen table at my house. My kids will probably get it one day too.

With a little stain and sealer and the right frame, nobody picks it out as an old door either.

Not sure what the wood frame cost us back then, but couldn"t be more than $50 today. And, it"s lasted 35 years. Not bad for salvage.

Let "em laugh.
 
I dont think I need to steal anything as you have seen in some of my past posts my boss and our yard manager throws out some pretty good stuff, that is ok with me
 
I am not greedyby nature but I dont like to see something thrown out and I have used almost everything Ibring home or my neighbor farmer uses it . He helps me so I am always thinking of him also when Isee stuff
 
I found this Kubota generator sitting out on the street for the trash pickup. It didn't have any compression pulled the head and freed up a stuck valve. Sold it for $180.00. Ran like new one. Hal
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In my opinion, that is the ultimate in "recycling"! And.....they won"t take up very much space stacked up against a wall until you figure out how to use "em!
 
I have one of those gennys. Bought it new in 1984. Used it in a travel trailer I had that took me to Alaska. The genny powered up my small deep freeze that was full of slamon, moose and caribou.
Still use it nowadays for portable power in the front basket on the Honda ATV.

Gordo
 
I built a guy a trailer for his stock car from four inch aluminum channel that another guy save from going to the landfill. Built it 15 feet 8 inches long, width was 7 1/2 feet. On the perimeter of the frame I put the "C's" of the channel together to form a tube. When the frame was complete but before the axles were attached, one guy could flip the frame over.
Those doors are to pretty to THROW AWAY.
Kent
 
Dad and myself would go to the dump quite often, around lunch time, when the workers were not working Dad liked to look for scrap metral. One time Dad was told you can't do that any more. This was because it was cutting in on the workers doing the same thing. Stan
 
You are being "green", "recycling", or " living off the fat of the land". If I had been there we would have had a race to see who could get thim first. Probably would have offered to share them, but I would have wanted them. I think a person could make a living off what goes to the dump/landfill if you could only inspedt and collect before it was crushed or burried, and load it on your truck.
 
I"m just like you Larry load em up!
I got 22 solid wood doors one time that some one was throwing away they have been a roof on one of my sheds for about 15 years now.You cant tell they are doors with roofing on them.
 
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