Back in the mid-1970s my dad, P.C. Snapp, and I got 1,000 board feet of wormy chestnut out of an old barn down in Caney Valley in Hawkins County, Tennessee with the help of my uncle Mike Grindstaff and friend Henry Derrick. Dad and I made picture frames, clocks, post office door banks and bookcases for people and we never charged a cent.
They were gifts. That 1,000 board feet lasted us almost 30 years. My crews and I were going out and reclaiming the siding and timbers off old pre-1940s barns that were either getting ready to fall or barns that were in the way of urban sprawl. We would try to get to them before the bulldozers did. The barns retrieved were dismantled, de-nailed and the lumber was saved to make useful items or crafts giving those items another 100 years of life.
They were gifts. That 1,000 board feet lasted us almost 30 years. My crews and I were going out and reclaiming the siding and timbers off old pre-1940s barns that were either getting ready to fall or barns that were in the way of urban sprawl. We would try to get to them before the bulldozers did. The barns retrieved were dismantled, de-nailed and the lumber was saved to make useful items or crafts giving those items another 100 years of life.
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