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Tried salvaging lumber from a collapsed barn last month, regretted every second
My buddy Mark called me up saying he had a whole barn full of old oak beams just waiting for me. Drove out to his place near Ellsworth thinking I hit the jackpot. The wood looked good on top but the bottom layers were full of rot and nails I kept finding with my hands. Spent 6 hours pulling boards and only got maybe 12 decent pieces out of it. My back was wrecked for three days and I still had to dig splinters out of my palm with tweezers. Anyone else ever fall for the 'free barn wood' trap or did I just pick the wrong barn?
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