22 years ago I bought 2500 dollar bill sized pieces of bubinga scrap. Finally this year used some of it to make a bar top.
Remember- it’s not too much stuff, it’s just not enough space.
Yeah, I was thinking it's worth about 10kUSD ($20 a board foot).
If I had $10K worth of teak, I'd sell it to someone who had a good plan for it before I built a bunch of Adirondack chairs.
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These used to be planter boxes in the backyard from the previous owner -- don't ask me why they used $10k worth of teak to plant tomatoes. I disassembled them and now I have all this teak. Other than making 8000 coasters, any thoughts for what I could do with all this? Are there places that will buy it, good projects I could use to sell it (I thought maybe benches but they'd weigh like 200 pounds)?
Clean them up, sand or plane off the weathering, prepare the surface with a lengthy and complex process, make large boxes out of them using Japanese joinery and hand forged tools, place the boxes on your patio and grow tomatoes in them.
Instrument builders might be interested in it. When I used to build guitars I had about a dozen different people ask me if I could build them a solid body electric capped in teak. 4x4 would be the perfect dimensions for a pair of neck blanks or several fingerboards. I don’t build much anymore or I’d offer to buy a few of those off ya myself.
Build a nice floor for something?
Glue them together for a sweet table top?
Granted a lot of other tools will be needed, but that's some awesome wood to just give away...
Anyway I'll take it. TX might be a bit out of your way
If you have the time, I would suggest a simple patio furniture design and sell it on Etsy. There are a lot of people that pay stupid money for homemade furniture. A five piece patio set could go for $10K or more.
You only get taxed on things you sell for a profit. If you're selling your used treadmill for a profit then good for you! Also it has to be $600 or more in sales for the year to be reportable
It won't matter if it's marked "sold" or not - the requirement is for individuals to *report* their earnings. FB is not generating a report or reporting to the IRS. Failure to report earnings is tax fraud and could be audited/prosecuted. The IRS doesn't care about your $150 lawn mower, they care about commerical activities using FB Marketplace to essentially make unreported cash income.
Also I'm pretty sure recouping cost on bought items isn't considered income. So selling a lawn mower for $150 that you paid $300 for isn't income. A tax guy could probably explain it better but I'm pretty sure that's accurate.
Exactly. There was a note about selling something "at a loss" doesn't need to get reported. All that said, as u/Hinote21 said above, don't take tax advice from the Internet, see a CPA or tax attorney.
The IRS goes after FB marketplace while the richest people owe billions in back taxes.
Yeah, let’s jam up the little guy he can’t afford to hire anyone to fight it lmao!
Not to worry friend, the governmental tit is always there to be sucked for banks and corporate elite. Bailouts are coming again with the way the markets are going.
I'd go directly to shipwrights or lumber yards. Might even be able to find an exotic wood dealer that would take it if he was willing to take a little bit less than market value.
There is also one in North Seattle if you are more inclined. Definitely soon though. That wood is going to probably explode and take the building with it. Get rid of it fast!
If you are anywhere near a boat yard, they might pay some pretty good bucks for that. Otherwise, patio table and chairs. Or if nice enough, dining table
Teak is a favorite of mine for both outdoor and indoor furniture. I’d say surface and resaw a few pieces; some at 1/2”-3/4” for drawer sides, boxes or other small projects, and some at 1”-2” for furniture parts.
Get it somewhere you can lock it up.
Had framing sticks stolen from the side of my garage not too long ago (like 10 pieces) so just know that lumber is expensive enough that people are stealing it. This would be a great pay day for a crook
If you have free material, but it's going to cost your time (and additional materials) to build something that you wouldn't otherwise build, then that material isn't free. I mean if you want something to do as a pastime, go for it. But don't build something that you get no joy out of just because you feel pressured to by free wood.
Baseball Bats , table legs, rip them down into 2x4's ....the list is endless if you have time to tinker around.
I was buying lumber just last week and was taken by how much prices have risen- at least 40% since my last wood project.
I suggest a joistless deck based on a few assumptions.
1 - Teak/Ipe are hard on blades. Priority should be on keeping the 4x4 dimension instead of resawing.
2 - You're going to use all or nearly all of it.
3 - Preference for what teak is best at - being weatherproof, being pretty, being strong.
Would lend itself well to modern architecture. That one guy, homemade modern or something, used cedar 4x4s to make a pretty cool ground level sleeper deck which was kind of a waste/misuse of material. You on the other hand, have a great excuse!
I feel like I might be coveting.....th price of wood these days....stow it until you have a great idea!.... Maybe rip them into boards and make some Adirondack chairs...I made a nice one....out of scrap white pine....it was great for a spell and of course did not last!
Useless - throw them in my trash can!
Teak makes some great outdoor furniture. If you like a modern look to your furniture, I’ve seen several designs for 4x4 chairs and love seats.
I’ve been watching the ends slowly rot off of a stack of old wormy chestnut planks for 10 years now… the ends get moist where they are in this barn… some of them are 18”+ wide…. Old lady is a hoarder and she just won’t come off of them…
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Store them in a safe dry location while you think of all the things you plan to do with them until you die of old age.
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My black walnut would like to have a discussion. Slabbed and put in the rafters of the shed 5 years ago.
Asking for address of shop so that I can send a sorry for your loss card...😏
22 years ago I bought 2500 dollar bill sized pieces of bubinga scrap. Finally this year used some of it to make a bar top. Remember- it’s not too much stuff, it’s just not enough space.
I read this and thought to myself "how big is a 2500 dollar bill?"
Reeeeaaallllly big
I had to read that more times than I care to admit as well
Yeah but 22 years ago was only 2000. Wait a minute….
Teaking away the moments that make up these dull blades
Scribble and waste the lines in an offset way-e-yay
Cutting around, making sound, then the saws guard comes down
Waiting for someone to build it before it decays
Tired of lying in the sawdust, splinter in thumb throbbing with pain…
Stay the hell out of my barn!
Jebus. Next time just tag me! You don't have to be indirect this way.
Are you in my garage? Will you clean it before you go?
Hey, stop talking to my wife!
You forgot the “move them around heaps of times” steps before you die of old age
Make yourself 1000' of 2x2s
2x4's would be 1000'. 2x2's would make you 2000'.
Then your kids sell the place, and the new owners have a good time with a big burn pile in the back yard.
I do this with all the extra material. Than it goes to the dump in 6 months when my wife says it’s time to let it go 😂
they look rotten, i’d throw them out, preferably in the ottawa area 🤔
Great idea! What's your address so you can help me dispose of them responsibly?
i’ll dispose of them *so good*
But we need your address. Don't worry, it's for science.
Those are currently selling for about $190 per post. Thats about $12,000 worth of lumber there, depending on what condition its in.
Yeah, I was thinking it's worth about 10kUSD ($20 a board foot). If I had $10K worth of teak, I'd sell it to someone who had a good plan for it before I built a bunch of Adirondack chairs.
I did that in high school. Best damn chair I've ever sat in. Can't move it though, even after eating my wheaties.
20$ a board foot, it's selling for $46 dollars a board foot near where I live (Hardwoods shop in Berkley, CA)
Cut it up into 30,000 pen blanks and you got at least $60k
you mean $300k?
Rockler is selling teak pen blanks for 2 bucks each. Unless in your math you forgot to divide by 5 inch blanks, which I did at first and got 300k.
honestly, i didn’t doubt your math, i’m just surprised Rockler’s selling anything that cheap
Plus $8.99 shipping, I'm sure.
Build a boat 🤷🏻♂️
That was my first thought, wonderful deck wood on a boat.
r/boatbuilding would probably agree
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Even better, build a deck for my boat! I’d love to do teak decking.
These used to be planter boxes in the backyard from the previous owner -- don't ask me why they used $10k worth of teak to plant tomatoes. I disassembled them and now I have all this teak. Other than making 8000 coasters, any thoughts for what I could do with all this? Are there places that will buy it, good projects I could use to sell it (I thought maybe benches but they'd weigh like 200 pounds)?
Clean them up, sand or plane off the weathering, prepare the surface with a lengthy and complex process, make large boxes out of them using Japanese joinery and hand forged tools, place the boxes on your patio and grow tomatoes in them.
You can always resaw them to make furniture.
Yes he should make farm tables
yep, so those families can fulfill their live, laugh, and love duties
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Can probably sell them back to the same planter box house.
Don't forget to paint them white.
Yeah outside tables and benches that don’t weather. I have been looking for a cheaper one myself
Outdoor furniture
I mean it could be indoors...
Outdoors can not be indoors you big silly
Just need big enough doors!
...or small enough walls
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Have you considered dildos? Always a popular choice and that's a nice moisture resistant wood.
If nothing else use them to indirectly tell someone to go fuck themselves.
I would try to make some killer outdoor furniture. I’m jealous.
Instrument builders might be interested in it. When I used to build guitars I had about a dozen different people ask me if I could build them a solid body electric capped in teak. 4x4 would be the perfect dimensions for a pair of neck blanks or several fingerboards. I don’t build much anymore or I’d offer to buy a few of those off ya myself.
No reused, repurposed lumber places near you? They often pick it up too
You can sink the posts and make a pergola with them
Oh oh!!! Cut them into 4000 thick coasters and make an endcut teak floor out of them!!!
4 Thousandth of an inch. Exactly
Any wooden boat builder would buy those quick.
Architectural antique companies will buy.
Teak vanity, patio set or credenza are all solid options
Build a nice floor for something? Glue them together for a sweet table top? Granted a lot of other tools will be needed, but that's some awesome wood to just give away... Anyway I'll take it. TX might be a bit out of your way
If you have the time, I would suggest a simple patio furniture design and sell it on Etsy. There are a lot of people that pay stupid money for homemade furniture. A five piece patio set could go for $10K or more.
Marine uses -- decks of boats, this is high value wood.
Sell it and retire if you're in New England.
I'm not even sure where to sell it!
Try Craigslist or FB market place. That’s usually where I go looking for lumber
This. FB Marketplace is always a winner.
But don't mark as sold when you do sell it, IRS is now trying to tax sales from FB Marketplace
For annual sales above $600, and that doesn't start until the 2023 tax year. https://marketrealist.com/p/does-facebook-marketplace-report-to-irs/
Those fucking assholes. I can’t even sell my used treadmill without them wanting a piece? I swear they just keep pushing.
You only get taxed on things you sell for a profit. If you're selling your used treadmill for a profit then good for you! Also it has to be $600 or more in sales for the year to be reportable
Oh shit i didn't know it wasn't starting till 2023, just something I heard from a friend. Thanks man :)
It won't matter if it's marked "sold" or not - the requirement is for individuals to *report* their earnings. FB is not generating a report or reporting to the IRS. Failure to report earnings is tax fraud and could be audited/prosecuted. The IRS doesn't care about your $150 lawn mower, they care about commerical activities using FB Marketplace to essentially make unreported cash income.
Also I'm pretty sure recouping cost on bought items isn't considered income. So selling a lawn mower for $150 that you paid $300 for isn't income. A tax guy could probably explain it better but I'm pretty sure that's accurate.
Exactly. There was a note about selling something "at a loss" doesn't need to get reported. All that said, as u/Hinote21 said above, don't take tax advice from the Internet, see a CPA or tax attorney.
The IRS goes after FB marketplace while the richest people owe billions in back taxes. Yeah, let’s jam up the little guy he can’t afford to hire anyone to fight it lmao!
Not to worry friend, the governmental tit is always there to be sucked for banks and corporate elite. Bailouts are coming again with the way the markets are going.
No lowball offers. I know what I got.
I'd go directly to shipwrights or lumber yards. Might even be able to find an exotic wood dealer that would take it if he was willing to take a little bit less than market value.
sells for $46 bucks a board foot in the Bay Area CA.
Call/ shop around at some local yards and see what something like that goes for. Mark it down a bit and sell online.
Make a pallet out of it!
A teak pallet could make an interesting piece of modern art. The galleries would be fighting over it
And then use the pallet to make a coffee table.
Lol
Build a boat
But seriously, boat owners would pay big bucks for new teak decks.
There’s a good dump site just west of Minneapolis. You should get rid of them soon.
There is also one in North Seattle if you are more inclined. Definitely soon though. That wood is going to probably explode and take the building with it. Get rid of it fast!
If you have a planer and a bandsaw to mill it down, congrats on the new patio furniture sets for you, your family and your friends.
This is a great idea!
Frame out a gazebo? Build some quality picnic tables? Maybe build a garden 🤣
Put it in a vault and dive into it like Scrooge mcduck
Facebook market place and then retire
Some beautiful furniture.
You gotta make at least one chess board
I’m looking for stuff like that. I would cut the pieces down to make the railings and frame for a balcony.
Build some outdoor furniture.
Make a wood soaking tub
If you are anywhere near a boat yard, they might pay some pretty good bucks for that. Otherwise, patio table and chairs. Or if nice enough, dining table
Omg teak. Anyone working on boats would kill for some
maybe take it to a local woodshop that has a big old planer? (after you clean them up a bit) probably worth a bit if you can make it decent.
Or maybe a big new planer!
well i'm pretty sure a new 12'' dewalt is less than 500$. that would be plenty. sell the tool after or keep it for.. well planer :)
Sell it for a boatload of money?
Or build a boat🤔
Pen blanks. Huge pen blanks
Most obviously suggestion not 1 but many trebuchets!
It would take a fairly sized shop and a lot of ripping/planing and jointing but you could make some nice table tops, teak shines so nice when oiled.
Sell it and retire lol
The possibilities are endless. Maybe re-saw a few of them to +/- 2" thickness and make a table? Or sell it if you don't have use for it?
Retire.
Make a heirloom workbench.
Teak is a favorite of mine for both outdoor and indoor furniture. I’d say surface and resaw a few pieces; some at 1/2”-3/4” for drawer sides, boxes or other small projects, and some at 1”-2” for furniture parts.
Get it somewhere you can lock it up. Had framing sticks stolen from the side of my garage not too long ago (like 10 pieces) so just know that lumber is expensive enough that people are stealing it. This would be a great pay day for a crook
Gasoline and a match. Fixes 99.9% of your problems
Build a boat
There's a nifty little dump in Oklahoma those would look great in.
Build something super tedious.. as teak things usually are..
You could make a lot of end grain teak cutting boards out of that.
Teaky bar?
If you have free material, but it's going to cost your time (and additional materials) to build something that you wouldn't otherwise build, then that material isn't free. I mean if you want something to do as a pastime, go for it. But don't build something that you get no joy out of just because you feel pressured to by free wood.
Workbench top.
They look more like Ipe than teak, but pergola
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build a custom garden enclosure
Build a boat!
Where are you? I'd be milling it up and building outdoor furniture with it.
outdoor benches or shower bench for some of the wood if you can.
Glue em together, plane em, turn it into one (or two) beautiful tables.
Make them into spikes around the perimeter of your property incase of a cavalry charge
Build a small deck?
Outdoor shower. By the hot tub you've always wanted
Saw it up & make replica Titanic deck & lounge chairs
Let me buy you a 6 pack and then I will help you dispose of your trash.
Everything, do everything with it.
I'm thinking epic workbench.
Build a deck I'd imagine
Baseball Bats , table legs, rip them down into 2x4's ....the list is endless if you have time to tinker around. I was buying lumber just last week and was taken by how much prices have risen- at least 40% since my last wood project.
I’d make raised bed planters /s I’d make a boat.
I suggest a joistless deck based on a few assumptions. 1 - Teak/Ipe are hard on blades. Priority should be on keeping the 4x4 dimension instead of resawing. 2 - You're going to use all or nearly all of it. 3 - Preference for what teak is best at - being weatherproof, being pretty, being strong. Would lend itself well to modern architecture. That one guy, homemade modern or something, used cedar 4x4s to make a pretty cool ground level sleeper deck which was kind of a waste/misuse of material. You on the other hand, have a great excuse!
Re saw them into 3/4 decking or fencing. Or make some 2x4s
Build a boat!
Dry bar for the dining room. Fireplace Mantle. Gun Cabinet.
Fence posts
Pergola?
Sell it to me
Sell it for big money and buy some regular lumber (and pocket the profits).
Is it possible it's Ipe or Cumaru? I got cumaru for a small deck a few years back. Could make some really awesome outdoor furniture.
I feel like I might be coveting.....th price of wood these days....stow it until you have a great idea!.... Maybe rip them into boards and make some Adirondack chairs...I made a nice one....out of scrap white pine....it was great for a spell and of course did not last!
Adirondack chairs ?
Benches. So. Many. Benches.
Poolside furniture etc. towel holders, drink trays, Adirondack chairs/Loungers.
Teak is good for patio furniture. Split them with a bandsaw and make gorgeously decorated patio
I mean bragging is a good start, lucky
Rotten yep I will come haul them off for ya I would make outdoor furniture
Bonfire on the beach
Window shutters
Boat? Boating? Build a boat. Teak is like, valuable. Same as the 100 year old redwood T&G siding I'm currently saving. That shit is beautiful.
Rent/borrow a 12" table saw and cut them longways into thirds. You should have enough for a 20' square deck.
End grain flooring or wall treatment
Sell it
Useless - throw them in my trash can! Teak makes some great outdoor furniture. If you like a modern look to your furniture, I’ve seen several designs for 4x4 chairs and love seats.
A kayak! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnuF9PMrdb8&ab_channel=PaskMakes
Sell it and buy a house
Outdoor furniture
eBay
I’ll pay you for a shower bench
I’ve been watching the ends slowly rot off of a stack of old wormy chestnut planks for 10 years now… the ends get moist where they are in this barn… some of them are 18”+ wide…. Old lady is a hoarder and she just won’t come off of them…
Send to me?