Building Materials?

Check with your local utility companies. If they have a line crew that may be changing out some poles they may drop them off at your place rather than taking them back to their yard. They make excellent fence posts and uprights for barns or sheds.

Nearly all newspaper companies, and they are all over this country, gives pallets away for free and can't get rid of them all.

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Dennis

One good place that we found some good building boards was at the local sawmill. They had this huge pile of the bark layer of the logs that they'd sawed off when they went to get to the "good stuff" inside. We bought a truck load for $15 but most places give it away. That truck load made us a calf barn. It was not big or fancy but did good by our calf. We had some leftover and used it for fencing. Would also make a really cool "Tom Sawyer" house for the kids.

Mark & Debbie,

Gosh, we all have great ideas. Just read them, wow!

But OK, today I went to Home Depot in Vancouver, asked if I could have a few pieces of cedar 1 x 6 x 10', and some borken in half 16', 2 x 6 manufactured deck material, 8'. It was in a big pile and looked shoved-off-to-the-side where I parked the truck, in the contractor area.

They said, "What's it for?"

"It's for a community garden," I said.

It is for the sides of a path in my personal small city patch in the community garden. But they liked the idea.

"Sure, how much do you want?" the manager said.

I got enough to make the path boarders in our little city garden. And I gave our garden neighbour two of the 1 x 6 x 10' Cedar boards we didn't need.

So there you go. What is it, "Ask and you shall recieve."

YIKES! Really works.

Enjoy,

Alex

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