I've previously mentioned the opportunity to get in and grab some wood from an old barn that was being torn down. Here's a five-board bench I made from some of the wood.
The barn was made of hickory, oak, pecan and poplar that was milled from his land back in the early 1900s. This was in the rural part of Newberry SC and a lot of the local farms were in the family for generations and a good many of them had set up their own sawmills for their personal use. Growing up in West Virginia, my father being a talented metal worker, constructed his own sawmill in order to build our out-buildings from trees on our land, but that's another story.
The wood we salvaged from the Prosperity farm is now sitting in our garage, waiting to be used in future projects.
A woodworker's heaven!
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