Author Topic: Sideboard Idefication please  (Read 5741 times)

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Re: Sideboard Idefication please
« Reply #15 on: December 11, 2012, 03:25:21 pm »
will do but wont be until the new year, thanks for all your help, got the table to match it, but it such a good table we dont want to sell dont think we find anything so sturdy and its had shaped custom mats on it  the whole time

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Re: Sideboard Idefication please
« Reply #16 on: December 12, 2012, 06:53:01 pm »
Try as you may....you haven't annoyed me yet Wullie!  I just guess it's cheaper to get furniture to burn than firewood in your neck of the woods!?!?!?
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« Reply #17 on: December 12, 2012, 07:09:00 pm »
Try as you may....you haven't annoyed me yet Wullie!  I just guess it's cheaper to get furniture to burn than firewood in your neck of the woods!?!?!?
I don,t try to annoy you KC...I just take it as it comes..but I value your comments..and I too get a laugh when reading yours, ..You are correct about the cost of seasoned Hardwood logs...they can cost anything between $120...and $175...for a Potato Box full...which in lbs...is around 2000lbs...just under a ton..whereas i can get a high sided van load of furniture..which is made up of mostly 30,s/40,s heavy.furniture..oa k tables, beach, elm,..ash..etc...for $50...and i,ll get around a couple of months burning....
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Re: Sideboard Idefication please
« Reply #18 on: December 12, 2012, 07:53:21 pm »
How big is a potato box ?? In feet and inches ??

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Re: Sideboard Idefication please
« Reply #19 on: December 12, 2012, 08:18:15 pm »
The box size is 72in long x 48in wide x 38in high...its a 1.5ton capacity...for taters.but when its full of split logs,the weight is around 2000lb
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Re: Sideboard Idefication please
« Reply #20 on: December 12, 2012, 10:53:01 pm »
Wow!  That is interesting.  So, in other words, you are slowly raising the values of furniture...because it will end up being scarce after so much of it is burned?!?  :)

How in the heck did you figure this out?  Is this a normal thing?
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Re: Sideboard Idefication please
« Reply #21 on: December 13, 2012, 05:33:17 am »
Hi KC,That thought never crossed my mind...It was the economics of it, that...took me in this direction..
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Re: Sideboard Idefication please
« Reply #22 on: December 13, 2012, 08:05:58 am »
Bigwull is just "repurposing" vintage furniture.  ;D ;D

He is doing his part to save humanity from the perils of Global Warming by using a "renewable" energy source instead of burning fossil fuels.

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« Reply #23 on: December 13, 2012, 08:33:09 am »
Putting it that way I suppose I am...do you think I should maybe apply for membership to the Green Lobby....now that i,m doing my bit to "Save the Planet"..... ;D
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Re: Sideboard Idefication please
« Reply #24 on: December 13, 2012, 10:27:28 am »
As a sidenote to Bigwull's re-purposing plan, I'll add a little history of my own. My Mother was born and raised in a sod house down on Rabbit Creek out on the Western Plains. She attended "Lone Tree" school, so named because it was near the only tree within miles.

Much like Scotland, the cost of conventional heating / cooking fuel was beyond the reach of the family, so an alternative had to be found. That fuel source was the easily obtained "cow chip (pie)". Proper drying was the secret, so one of my Mother's jobs as a girl was to walk the prairie during the Summer with a stick, turning over the chips so they would be evenly baked in the sun.

After being dried, they were gathered up in gunny (potato) sacks, and stored for future use. Kinda gives a new meaning to: "picking up a bag of chips". :P


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Re: Sideboard Idefication please
« Reply #25 on: December 13, 2012, 10:44:03 am »
Rauville, this brings back memories....My grandmother was raised in a house much the same.  The roof was dried wood with all sorts of things stuffed in it.  My great grandparents had to go for a tax audit and job and were gone for 3 weeks (left 7  kids ages 7 to 14).  Her 9 year old twin brothers somehow started a fire in the loft.  They lived for over 6 months without a roof!
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« Reply #26 on: December 13, 2012, 11:04:12 am »
This brings a whole new meaning to cow shit..or pies in the US...or Pat,s in the UK.& Oz..... ;D ;D
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Re: Sideboard Idefication please
« Reply #27 on: December 13, 2012, 07:23:17 pm »
Sounds like a house my parents lived in once !! Said they could look down at the floor and count the chickens !! Rent was $2.00 a month !!

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Re: Sideboard Idefication please
« Reply #28 on: December 14, 2012, 04:41:02 am »
AAAH, the good ole days, ...... 1917 Clay County, WV.


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« Reply #29 on: December 14, 2012, 08:14:29 am »
Here in The Highlands of Scotland it was a But & Ben..the family lived in one half..and the twa coos an couple o. sheep an chickens..lived in the other half...if they were a wee bit better aff..they had a one up one doon..the coos were in the doon bit..and they were in the up...an the heat that came aff the coos..rose up tae heat the up half...
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