'Cos if so, you aint been looking hard enough

Back in Febuary, was buying some wood for a tech project from a wood merchant, asked if they had any scrap lengths. They did



Lots of nice 4x2s and 3x2s, as well as random other bits

Cost: £5 (for home delivery)


Then just this week, doing my paperround and one of the houses was having work done, and had a load of wood outside (covered in nails). Asked if it was scrap and I could take it, answer- yes



Some really nice 5x2 (or something like that), which will be ace for stringers, and some 4x2s too.

Cost: £0 (got mum to pick em up in car).


Havent used any of the original pile yet (sorting out the dirtjumps first), so we now have a rather large pile of free wood







So yeah, we're a bunch of 17yr olds, so cant afford to spend loads on wood (we split up decent pallets for the rungs), might not be as high quality as Esher/Herts, but still pretty darn good



Duane

I do the same mate, its brilliant.
Call back again in about 3 months, and ask them if they have any more cut offs. Theyre usually happy for you to take it off them.

We have had many many large trailer loads over the years for Kindling for the fire 

Having said that, we're not all so lucky...     http://www.southerndownhill.com/forum/index.php/topic,149074.0.html

most of ours is built with palets left over from builders and it works great and cost was zero

hey

well done mate good find you have there

i have seen a feild where people dump loads of pallets so im going there soon and asking for some..... not sure yet where id build mine but owell lol

cheers
paul

North shore is still fairly expensive got a lot of this timber for free but it still cost £750 ish


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while dirt is normal free

Building sites are a great source of pallets. We got 75-100 from one a few weeks ago, they took some serious shifting! It made a pretty wicked bonfire for a mates 21st birthday. Most of them would have been fine for northshore though.

guys, you need to get to building developers they have to pay to scrap the wood (or burn it) so ask them to put some aside for you... and as for nails well go to www.toolstation.com  and you can buy annular ring nails (up to 75mm) for 88p for half a kilo!!! And then theres the chicken wire oh well nick some off the chickens!

Where abouts are you? u could use my private field for your northshore

its a few miles from chichester