It has been about nine months since Mark very generously gave a lot of us a heap of flood affected timber, and about seven or eight months since he asked to see any projects completed with that timber.
I reckon that we owe Mark the courtesy of showing that his generosity has not been wasted so by way of this post, I am bumping the thread.
I too would like to see what people have been about to do with the resource.
Of course, each of us took such a fair swag of the material that we should not expect to have used it all. Indeed, I still have most of mine still sitting in a shed. However, let me start the ball rolling by adding a few projects to those shown earlier in this thread six months or so ago.
The water damage did cause a lot of bowing in the boards, of course. That meant that the opportunity to use them in their full width in premium quality projects can be a bit limited. Indeed, a few of mine ended up screwed above ceiling joists to give me some broad surfaces to crawl around in my ceiling comfortably. However, they were the worst boards in terms of bowing and splits.
At the next level of quality, viz slightly bowed but still too bowed to use in a dovetail jig, I have used a lot as shelving within a garden shed as shown in a previous post and also in my workshop. Using the same cheap method as for the garden shed shelving units, viz using Bunnings non-structural pine studs as the frame, with floating tenon joints and the flood pines as the shelves rebated into the frame, both fixed and mobile storage shelving has been built. The mobile storage being under my woodworking machines as seen on the mobile stand below carrying a fixed disk sander and an oscillating spindle sander...
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The better quality boards and cut-downs of some of the bowed boards have been deployed in dovetailed drawers around the workshop to provide a much needed permanent home to files, screwdriver bits, sharp blades of various sorts, sandpaper stocks, etc...
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Every now and then, I might get a bit creative with the flatter boards. eg this whimsical little stool where the boards were flat enough to be able to dovetail the top and sides together ...
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Of course, having a plentiful supply of flat boards allows all sorts of utilitarian usage around the workshop such as the lids made for a second stage to my dust collector and a cyclone stage to my shop vac which is permanently connected to my scms ...
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I should mention that very little gets wasted. Off-cuts have been used for handy little gizmos like cable/pneumatic hose hangers. After looking for several weeks for cable hangers to use to clean up the maze of sagging power cables and pneumatic hose dangling above me in the garage workshop and trying a few commercially available plastic and rubber hangers unsuccessfully, I made twenty to my own simple design from pine off-cuts...
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Yup - nothing gets wasted ...
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Next on the agenda will be a round table top to fit into a stainless steel keg that I keep in peaceful spot around the back of the house to sit a quiet ale on occasionally. When I use the pine in that semi exposed position, I shall waterproof it with epoxy waterproofing stuff and a few coats of paint but I reckon that I will be very pleased with that bit of pine. :U
What else have you guys done with your flooded pine?
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