WOW! This homesteading hobby ain't cheap!

My neighbor re-did a metal roof. I'm getting some of the metal to use to cover my firewood.
I saw a pile of pallets that a local business burns. I've asked them for those, and they may even use their machinery, load it on their truck, and drop it off at my place so they can get rid of it at once to someone who will use it. I plan to use it for firewood, kindling and perhaps building.
Loads of stuff to scavenge.
Ann

Ouch! I've heard of gate stealing, but not fence posts (in use!) yet. Had a pair of 10-ft gates at the head of my driveway, which were never closed, so I yanked them and brought them in for use in other places.

NeHi

Our neighbor put up new barbed wire one week-end, he went to work the next monday, came home to find someone had stolen it!!!!!!! right off the posts... now thats pretty bad.

year before last a friend had given me a huge concrete bird bath, I hid it in our woods on our property,as we don't live there yet,but I thought it was safe, The bird bath left the same day the elec co. put in our poles......

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There ya go! THAT is the homesteading attitude. Make your own.

I met a guy who is vary familiar with timber framming. He has told me how, and he said he will help show me how to use small trees to frame a chicken tractor, use small saplings to weave the walls, and free pallets to make the nest boxes. I dont expect to have anymore than around $10 in my chicken tractor.

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Steel is very high. Used to be able to find T-Posts on sale for $1.75 for the big ones. I can not belive how high they are now. We have over 100, from all the years buying and trading for them. We are so bad at "putting up a fence" and "taking down a fence". We've got to stop that. But we do save everything.

We would cut/hang/strip tobacco for friends, long time farmers, and then trade some of our labor for the used T-Posts they had, at like $1 each if we took them out of the ground and cleaned up the barbed wire. THOSE old T-Posts are huge! They don't make them like that anymore.

There is a fellow on Craigslist with truckfulls of used guard-rails. Wow. Don't know what he is asking for them. We are always hauling home free sheets of metal. Use what we can, and haul the rest for $. We got $75 for a pick-up bed trailor (950lbs) of rusted junk!