Hardwood Dunnage

FREE !! You’ll find be able to trade for better stuff as time goes on. Just keep your eyes open in back rows of steel mills and truckstops in the weeds. I’ve never bought dunnage.

 

Never to old as long as it not rotten.

 

If it’s laying across the deck it wouldn’t worry me. Bridging a gap would be different.

 

Same here.

Various shipper will use their own dunnage. If it was something better than what I had, I would keep it and add to my collection.

I delivered to an Amish sawmill in PA once. Asked how much to get them to cut me some 8' length 4x4.. it was all heavy hard wood. Stuff that would cost me well over $500 in Fla. Asked me how many I needed,... I said 3 or 4 should be fine. They had a boy cut me up 8 pieces. When I asked how much,.. they said don't worry about it. That was 4 yrs ago and I still have all 8. Tough wood.

Hurst

 

Not sure if cracked would be going for a head board. Wrong name I'm sure.

 

Think I've been to that same Amish sawmill...

Pretty sure the one I went too made pallets. Tough stuff. Haven't gotten rid of it yet.

 

I honestly can not remember the name of the town,. but these guys had what I can only best describe their equipment as home made.

For example,.. they had an articulating rear half of what looked like its was once an old CAT 950,.. (Think 1970's) with a modified forklift grafted to the front half,.. not forks where the bucket was,.. but like a full warehouse style forklift instead of the hydraulics.

Old old ancient farm tractor with the external belt feeds for the mills. The place was like a giant history lesson. I Loved it. And young boys,.. 13 - maybe 16 yrs of age running everything.

Hurst

 

...the sounds oddly familiar.

Evergreen Pallets is the name I'm thinking of. Oakland Mills, just south of Mcalisterville off of Route 35.

 

I couldnt tell you i my life depended on it. I honestly dont remember. The only reason I remember what I do is because I still have the wood,.. and I am an avid history nut and love old equipment.

Hurst