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Trent©

19/07/2003 10:14 AM

When is enough ENOUGH??!!!

I tend to save EVERY little piece of wood scrap!

I've got a box full of so many pieces of wood scrap...pieces that I
KNOW I'll need 10 years down the road...for a shim, etc. lol

When do YOU guys finally throw out a scrap piece? Do
YOU feel guilty? lol


Have a nice weekend...

Trent

Follow Joan Rivers' example --- get pre-embalmed!


This topic has 20 replies

JJ

[email protected] (Jack-of-all-trades - JOAT)

in reply to Trent© on 19/07/2003 10:14 AM

19/07/2003 7:48 PM

Sat, Jul 19, 2003, 10:14am [email protected] (Trent=A9) asks:
<snip> When do YOU guys finally throw out a scrap piece? <snip>

I don't understand the question as stated. I don't have scrap,
just wood, small pieces of wood, and smaller pieces of wood.

I do generate sawdust, which mostly gets thrown out. Works great
in the winter to get traction on ice or packed snow, for the car.

JOAT
Let's just take it for granted you don't know what the Hell you're
talking about.

Life just ain't life without good music. - JOAT
Web Page Update 16 Jul 2003. Some tunes I like.
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DK

D K Woods

in reply to Trent© on 19/07/2003 10:14 AM

19/07/2003 9:40 PM

On Sat, 19 Jul 2003 19:48:39 -0400 (EDT), Jack-of-all-trades - JOAT wrote:

> Sat, Jul 19, 2003, 10:14am [email protected] (Trent©) asks:
> <snip> When do YOU guys finally throw out a scrap piece? <snip>
>
> I don't understand the question as stated. I don't have scrap,
> just wood, small pieces of wood, and smaller pieces of wood.
>
> I do generate sawdust, which mostly gets thrown out. Works great
> in the winter to get traction on ice or packed snow, for the car.
>
> JOAT

Too true, JOAT. But for me, 'scrap' is when I buy wood from the pile
marked 'scrap' at my favorite lumber store. They're nice chunks of wood
just sitting there for 25 cents apiece. The pieces I buy are about .5
board feet, but it's usually maple and sometimes cherry, even occasionally
mahogany and walnut (though smaller pieces). Sometimes the maple has nice
figure, too. They call it scrap, I call it a new jewelry box.

david
--
I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have
of it.
-- Thomas Jefferson

aT

[email protected] (Tony D.)

in reply to Trent© on 19/07/2003 10:14 AM

20/07/2003 12:16 PM

l have a lot of scrap l save, then if I go to use it, I think it's too
nice to use ,so i'll look for a smaller or more beat up piece to use.
thanks, Tony D.

B a r r y B u r k e J r . <Keep it in the [email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> On Sat, 19 Jul 2003 10:14:01 -0400, Trent© <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> >When do YOU guys finally throw out a scrap piece?
>
> When it fits in my chimminea, and I want a fire. <G>
>
> Barry

jj

jo4hn

in reply to Trent© on 19/07/2003 10:14 AM

21/07/2003 10:48 PM

Nope. Mountains of southern California. Lots of weather up here.
j4

tnfkajs wrote:

> "jo4hn" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:1sdSa.109524
>
>>When winter comes, these are emptied into the
>>fireplace.
>
>
> Hmmm - I *thought* you were in Hawaii... Can't imagine a fireplace anywhere
> near there...
>
>

SA

"Scratch Ankle Wood"

in reply to Trent© on 19/07/2003 10:14 AM

19/07/2003 8:57 PM


"Trent©" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> I tend to save EVERY little piece of wood scrap!
>
> I've got a box full of so many pieces of wood scrap...pieces that I
> KNOW I'll need 10 years down the road...for a shim, etc. lol
>
> When do YOU guys finally throw out a scrap piece? Do
> YOU feel guilty? lol
>

I tend to save about everything as well and I often end up using it. I'm
about to post a picture on a.b.p.w. of one of my projects with scrap pieces.
This was several pieces of left over oak that were about 4 1/2" long and two
smaller pieces of 1/4" walnut. It is a small box for communion at church --
space for the cup and a wafer. Don't fuss about picture quality -- it's a
new digital and I've never used one before. That might be a gloat other
than the reason I got it -- turned [mumble] years old today.

EP

"Edwin Pawlowski"

in reply to Trent© on 19/07/2003 10:14 AM

19/07/2003 4:41 PM


"Trent©" <[email protected]> wrote in message ...
> I tend to save EVERY little piece of wood scrap!
> >
> When do YOU guys finally throw out a scrap piece? Do
> YOU feel guilty? lol

Only thing worse than saving tiny scraps is getting to use one. That
justifies saving even more of them.
Yes, I do feel guilty tossing even a 2' x 6". It may be just what you need
to fit something.
Ed
[email protected]
http://pages.cthome.net/edhome


TK

Terry King

in reply to Trent© on 19/07/2003 10:14 AM

19/07/2003 6:40 PM

When my Lady needs to fire up the woodstove here
In The Woods In Vermont, there is a natural scrap-sorting
process in the 'scrap box'. If I'm not home, some small pieces
of cherry get fired up.

All the cherry I have has been 'rescued' from the woodpile
already. 9 years ago I burned it all. These days, I've been
known to bring an occasional nice 4 foot log section of Cherry or hard
Maple, along with more conventional sizes, to my friend Nick with the
Woodmiser saw mill.

His eyebrows move around over top of his glasses. "I'm not sure
which one of you is the WoodMiser", he chuckles...

--
Regards, Terry King ...In The Woods In Vermont
[email protected]
The one who Dies With The Most Parts LOSES!! What do you need?

EJ

"Ernie Jurick"

in reply to Trent© on 19/07/2003 10:14 AM

20/07/2003 3:02 PM


"SwampBug" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> >ashes to the columbarium<
>
> Main Entry: col·um·bar·i·um
> Pronunciation: "kä-l&m-'bar-E-&m, -'ber-
> Function: noun
> Inflected Form(s): plural col·um·bar·ia /-E-&/
> Etymology: Latin, literally, dovecote, from columba dove
>
> bird were your first strike. . .<s>

In my dictionary they're the second strike:

col·um·bar·i·um (kol´?m-bâr'e-?m) also col·um·bar·y (kol'?m-ber´e) noun
plural col·um·bar·i·a (-e-?) also col·um·bar·ies

1. a. A vault with niches for urns containing ashes of the dead.
b. One of the niches in such a vault.
2. a. A dovecote. b. A pigeonhole in a dovecote.

[Latin columbarium, sepulchre for urns, dovecote, from columba, dove.]

-- Ernie

Rv

"RikC"

in reply to Trent© on 19/07/2003 10:14 AM

19/07/2003 6:49 PM

Never!!!

rik

--

Padded room with a view
RWC3
"Trent©" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> I tend to save EVERY little piece of wood scrap!
>
> I've got a box full of so many pieces of wood scrap...pieces that I
> KNOW I'll need 10 years down the road...for a shim, etc. lol
>
> When do YOU guys finally throw out a scrap piece? Do
> YOU feel guilty? lol
>
>
> Have a nice weekend...
>
> Trent
>
> Follow Joan Rivers' example --- get pre-embalmed!

EJ

"Ernie Jurick"

in reply to Trent© on 19/07/2003 10:14 AM

19/07/2003 3:51 PM


"Trent©" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> I tend to save EVERY little piece of wood scrap!
>
> I've got a box full of so many pieces of wood scrap...pieces that I
> KNOW I'll need 10 years down the road...for a shim, etc. lol
>
> When do YOU guys finally throw out a scrap piece? Do
> YOU feel guilty? lol

I would never throw them out. I bury them in the back yard in a small pine
casket with a headstone. After the religious service I feel lots better.
-- Ernie

SB

"Steven Bliss"

in reply to Trent© on 19/07/2003 10:14 AM

19/07/2003 6:25 PM

I've been waiting for pigs to fly so I can get rid of some scraps. Don't
see that happening anytime soon!
"Trent©" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> I tend to save EVERY little piece of wood scrap!
>
> I've got a box full of so many pieces of wood scrap...pieces that I
> KNOW I'll need 10 years down the road...for a shim, etc. lol
>
> When do YOU guys finally throw out a scrap piece? Do
> YOU feel guilty? lol
>
>
> Have a nice weekend...
>
> Trent
>
> Follow Joan Rivers' example --- get pre-embalmed!

EJ

"Ernie Jurick"

in reply to Trent© on 19/07/2003 10:14 AM

19/07/2003 9:29 PM


"SwampBug" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Ye-e-e-s-s-s-s. . .it does sound like it's for the birds. . .<g>

A bit of reverence, please. These are WOOD SCRAPS we're talking about here.
-- Ernie (genuflecting)

EJ

"Ernie Jurick"

in reply to Trent© on 19/07/2003 10:14 AM

19/07/2003 4:48 PM


"SwampBug" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> of course, the making little pine casket leaves wood scraps that have to
be
> buried so your build a little pine casket, , ,which leaves scraps to be
> buried. . .<g>

I send the shavings to the crematorium. And the ashes to the columbarium,
which I visit regularly.
-- Ernie

Sm

Smokey

in reply to Trent© on 19/07/2003 10:14 AM

20/07/2003 10:16 PM

On 20 Jul 2003 12:16:51 -0700, [email protected] (Tony D.) wrote:

>l have a lot of scrap l save, then if I go to use it, I think it's too
>nice to use ,so i'll look for a smaller or more beat up piece to use.
> thanks, Tony D.
>
>B a r r y B u r k e J r . <Keep it in the [email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
>> On Sat, 19 Jul 2003 10:14:01 -0400, Trent© <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >When do YOU guys finally throw out a scrap piece?
>>
>> When it fits in my chimminea, and I want a fire. <G>
>>
>> Barry

I usually throw it out the day before I find a use for it.


///
Smokey
http://www.machlink.com/~allenbaugh/wood/woodstuff.htm
http://www.machlink.com/~allenbaugh/

EJ

"Ernie Jurick"

in reply to Trent© on 19/07/2003 10:14 AM

20/07/2003 3:25 PM


"SwampBug" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> either way, the root word is "dovecoat" and was used first. . .<g>

I've never seen a dove in a coat. How do they fly?
-- Ernie

> ---------------------
> "Ernie Jurick" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> >
> > "SwampBug" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> > news:[email protected]...
> > > >ashes to the columbarium<
> > >
> > > Main Entry: col·um·bar·i·um
> > > Pronunciation: "kä-l&m-'bar-E-&m, -'ber-
> > > Function: noun
> > > Inflected Form(s): plural col·um·bar·ia /-E-&/
> > > Etymology: Latin, literally, dovecote, from columba dove
> > >
> > > bird were your first strike. . .<s>
> >
> > In my dictionary they're the second strike:
> >
> > col·um·bar·i·um (kol´?m-bâr'e-?m) also col·um·bar·y (kol'?m-ber´e) noun
> > plural col·um·bar·i·a (-e-?) also col·um·bar·ies
> >
> > 1. a. A vault with niches for urns containing ashes of the dead.
> > b. One of the niches in such a vault.
> > 2. a. A dovecote. b. A pigeonhole in a dovecote.
> >
> > [Latin columbarium, sepulchre for urns, dovecote, from columba, dove.]
> >
> > -- Ernie
> >
> >
>
>

Sw

"SwampBug"

in reply to Trent© on 19/07/2003 10:14 AM

19/07/2003 11:10 AM

of course, the making little pine casket leaves wood scraps that have to be
buried so your build a little pine casket, , ,which leaves scraps to be
buried. . .<g>

--
SwampBug
---------------------
"Ernie Jurick" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> "Trent©" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > I tend to save EVERY little piece of wood scrap!
> >
> > I've got a box full of so many pieces of wood scrap...pieces that I
> > KNOW I'll need 10 years down the road...for a shim, etc. lol
> >
> > When do YOU guys finally throw out a scrap piece? Do
> > YOU feel guilty? lol
>
> I would never throw them out. I bury them in the back yard in a small pine
> casket with a headstone. After the religious service I feel lots better.
> -- Ernie
>
>

Sw

"SwampBug"

in reply to Trent© on 19/07/2003 10:14 AM

19/07/2003 3:45 PM

Ye-e-e-s-s-s-s. . .it does sound like it's for the birds. . .<g>

--
SwampBug
---------------------
"Ernie Jurick" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> "SwampBug" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > of course, the making little pine casket leaves wood scraps that have to
> be
> > buried so your build a little pine casket, , ,which leaves scraps to be
> > buried. . .<g>
>
> I send the shavings to the crematorium. And the ashes to the columbarium,
> which I visit regularly.
> -- Ernie
>
>

BM

"Bob Moody"

in reply to Trent© on 19/07/2003 10:14 AM

19/07/2003 7:01 PM

I thought it was just me who had the problem. Comforting to know I have
company. One thing I came up with ( I like to do turnings) was turned
wooden pulls that fasten to the end of lamp and ceiling chains. Lasted a
good while until one of my daughters told me she was going to convert all
her lamps to those damn twist switches. She may not get a share of my first
million.

There is a modified spur center which makes it easier to get the right
internal dimensions for a lamp pull. If anyone gives a damn, ask, and I
will go downstairs and find the catalog where I found it.

Bob Moody

Sw

"SwampBug"

in reply to Trent© on 19/07/2003 10:14 AM

19/07/2003 8:04 PM

>ashes to the columbarium<

Main Entry: col·um·bar·i·um
Pronunciation: "kä-l&m-'bar-E-&m, -'ber-
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural col·um·bar·ia /-E-&/
Etymology: Latin, literally, dovecote, from columba dove

bird were your first strike. . .<s>

--
SwampBug
---------------------
"Ernie Jurick" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> "SwampBug" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > Ye-e-e-s-s-s-s. . .it does sound like it's for the birds. . .<g>
>
> A bit of reverence, please. These are WOOD SCRAPS we're talking about
here.
> -- Ernie (genuflecting)
>
>

Sw

"SwampBug"

in reply to Trent© on 19/07/2003 10:14 AM

20/07/2003 10:36 AM

Very carefully. . .if it is a 'cote-of-mail' then you need a carrier pigeon,
not a dove. . .<g>


LOL! I need to fire my speel chunker. . .dovecote

--
SwampBug
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"Ernie Jurick" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> "SwampBug" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > either way, the root word is "dovecoat" and was used first. . .<g>
>
> I've never seen a dove in a coat. How do they fly?
> -- Ernie
>
> > ---------------------
> > "Ernie Jurick" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> > news:[email protected]...
> > >
> > > "SwampBug" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> > > news:[email protected]...
> > > > >ashes to the columbarium<
> > > >
> > > > Main Entry: col·um·bar·i·um
> > > > Pronunciation: "kä-l&m-'bar-E-&m, -'ber-
> > > > Function: noun
> > > > Inflected Form(s): plural col·um·bar·ia /-E-&/
> > > > Etymology: Latin, literally, dovecote, from columba dove
> > > >
> > > > bird were your first strike. . .<s>
> > >
> > > In my dictionary they're the second strike:
> > >
> > > col·um·bar·i·um (kol´?m-bâr'e-?m) also col·um·bar·y (kol'?m-ber´e)
noun
> > > plural col·um·bar·i·a (-e-?) also col·um·bar·ies
> > >
> > > 1. a. A vault with niches for urns containing ashes of the dead.
> > > b. One of the niches in such a vault.
> > > 2. a. A dovecote. b. A pigeonhole in a dovecote.
> > >
> > > [Latin columbarium, sepulchre for urns, dovecote, from columba, dove.]
> > >
> > > -- Ernie
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>


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