Some will be stunned at the value of salvaged lumber in dollars, but its contribution to healthy living is far greater for you and the world.
MAY 25, 2024
This is a response to a conversation about using salvaged lumber to build with. It leads to other essential things most people are unaware of or consider, but it should be both. Are you keeping up with the changing times, researching about staying youthful, and living the healthiest version of yourself for your lifetime?
I have 2×8 in LLP, but it is structural grade, has no knots bigger than a thumbnail, and has 10-16 growth lines per inch. As for value, in retail, what you have is likely $5 a board foot or more if burled treasure. I can do better but Wii would need to see what you need first.
Savor the perspicuity that comes with cleaning off the debris that covers up who you are by being real, truthful, and unafraid of the light upon your skin.
Brad W. Kittel
Burled pine, I have sold for as much as $42 a square foot, but that is a special buyer. Others would call that crazy, but it is $75 per sf in Florida.
The longer the length past 16 ft, the better the value as a premium, over 20′ is special but also a pain to stock and move.
I mothballed my business and warehouses 8 years ago. Time goes too fast, and I hope still that some honest younger people will show up to take on the bear I have in hibernation, about 1 million board feet of LLP and thousands of doors and windows I had hoped to see turn into houses when the need, ingenuity, and respect for salvage building comes back to our society. It requires great necessity to create unlimited demand for positive changes.
This downsizing of America will come soon, and imports will not be an option. Energy will force people to conserve and also use vintage glass, lumber, doors, windows, and more that they can not find in vinyl that destroys the endocrine systems through ingestion as it outgases to mimic estrogen in our system, a problem, like Atrazine that creates affectations in sexuality displayed by 32 species of now hermaphrodite fish.
I sometimes get distracted by my passion for building with salvage. Kudos for you doing so. I used a large stash of shorter tongue-and-groove 2×6 for walls. It will be fun to build with, too, since I used it for building loft floors and walls to save cubic space in my Tiny Texas Houses.
I do not have the 2×8 easily accessible, and it would be wise to visit to view the possibilities. Let me know when you can come. I have a BnB with houses to stay in, as the two locations have over 100,000 sf of materials under the roof plus what is outside.
Sell some and make some money on the side or barter that way for more instead if you know anyone that is building naturally instead of with shitrock and plastics, formaldehyde, and plasticizers for inhaling as additives that few consider as they age poorly instead of into our primes at 66-78.
No one ever told me when I was young and only through building tiny and natural, living it to test the effects, I can now demonstrate by exemplification the benefits such things as wood floors like you are making, wood as a cellular tissue that is charged to keep you healthy, and the many benefits of limiting the AC electricity in your sleeping spaces.
It truly is a miraculous effect more people should benefit from. Still, trying to teach that to a world that follows TV advertising and believes marketing has a link to science or facts, they are ignorant suckers who will be taken advantage of but not know it, even when the consequences show up in their lives.
Living the words, one speaks or writes to taste their true validity and prove the results, not just selling the hopium and dream sauce on the internet and TV. The test is in what the speaker is selling at the end of a video, for it seems that is the motive for most health secrets I see pop up.
You did not ask for so much, but I used it as inspiration for my daily essay on the state of the worldview. Perspicuity rules my days at this great age of 68.
I will likely post this on my TinyTexasHouse.substack.com site with some modifications.
I hope more will take your interest and action to use vintage materials to build our future once the old systems are thoroughly exposed and deservedly broken from the weight of Truth and Consequences finally becoming clear. This is apparent through the cancer and tumors that will manifest this year. The spike protein is on its way to doing the work it was created for. It opened the door to turbo cancer. Need I say more?
Natural living, grounding, and being healthy this year will become a loud call. The control groups, self-proclaimed and punished for it, hold the key to fertility, the path of longevity, and the hope for the next generations to get it right the next time.
First, Wii has to see it break down to realize the consequences are worth the effort to do the work, inside and out, to make the world healthier for our loved ones and offspring so that we can rebuild it into paradise someday. I dream of helping create.
Till Humpty Dumpty hits the ground, no solutions will be found.
Let me know when you can visit.