Wheeling And Dealing For A Wind Turbine Tower And Tiny Home Lumber

I am trading work for lumber for my tiny house and a tower for my wind turbine. I am emptying an old lumber yard of all the rotting and weathered wood and in exchange I will get good wood and the materials to mount my wind turbines up 60 feet in the air.

I got this deal online from an add offering free wood. But after starting to pick up some of the wood we found that most of it was badly ruined by water and termites. Some of the wood is not bad though and is only weathered slightly on one side. But the bulk of it is only good for burning, composting or to pave my garden walk ways.

If you remember last year I drove all over the country to get free mulch for my garden. So in this case a bit of wood to pave my walkways for free is in itself a good thing.

But to sweeten the deal because this is a LOT of wood, I said I cannot do this for free. It is just too much wood. There are still two giant hills of wood to be removed.

I asked in the morning if he would work a deal with me and give me the materials for my wind turbine plus the good wood to build my tiny house if I fully remove one of the lumber mountains. He has a few pallets of good, clean lumber inside the warehouse yet. He agreed to the deal.

I hauled out two more loads of wood yesterday. The first load I had to cut every piece because it was 20 foot long 2x4s. This wood is sun weathered on one side but not too bad on the other. Inside it is clean wood when you cut it. This is going in my garden to pave the walkways and to stake up plants. I can also build some fencing with it.

The second load I grabbed the boards to build my tiny home kitchen counter tops. This is 2 inches thick by 11 inches wide by 20 foot long boards. I had to cut them in half to get them into the truck. This will give me a 22 inch wide by 9 foot long kitchen counter area inside my new home. I do want a large kitchen. It is very important for me to have space in the kitchen or I just do not cook when I am crowded.

The rest of the load was full of halfway decent 2x6 boards ranging from 8 to 10 feet long. The are relatively good and only dirty for the most part. You can see they were not weathered yet. Some of these I will use for skids for my chicken coop and some I am thinking about cutting into 2x2s and 2x4s for framing inside my tiny house on wheels in the loft and the kitchen areas. Plus the interior walls.

I still have about 6 to 10 more loads of wood before I get my wind turbine tower and the lumber for my tiny house.

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