Fresh Lumber!
After taking a woodworking class at the Crucible last fall, I began to notice lumber everywhere jumping out of the landscape. Old gray scraps or full lengths lying in someone's yard call to me. A stack of pallets behind some building yearn to be recycled into some new life.
So imagine my joy at a pile of fresh lumber all my own! Just by looking, you can tell that this lumber wants to be a Mongolian yurt:
It's hard to appreciate the quantity of wood pictured here, but what you see is almost 300 board feet of pine. At least I think it's pine. There are 112 sticks of 2x2 boards each 8' long. Although buying wood already cut down to these more manageable sizes for my project normally costs a lot more, the Home Depot had a killer sale for Independence Day weekend. Instead of $2.19 per stick, I only had to pay $1.49 -- a substantial savings given the quantity here. This is still a bit more money than going with 2x4 or 2x6 sticks and cutting them down -- but the considerable labor saved is worth the slight premium to me.
Douglas Fir was recommended by 'The Yurt Handbook' as an acceptable wood to use (I can't afford the preferred ash). The other above-mentioned dimensions of lumber would have been Doug Fir, but the wood I got on special was unidentified and could be pine or Doug Fir or some third wood I don't recall. Anyway, I hope pine will suffice.
Lastly, a shout out to Jason and Angela for letting me use the basement in their apartment for most of my construction work. You will see it as the featured backdrop in many future photos.
So imagine my joy at a pile of fresh lumber all my own! Just by looking, you can tell that this lumber wants to be a Mongolian yurt:
It's hard to appreciate the quantity of wood pictured here, but what you see is almost 300 board feet of pine. At least I think it's pine. There are 112 sticks of 2x2 boards each 8' long. Although buying wood already cut down to these more manageable sizes for my project normally costs a lot more, the Home Depot had a killer sale for Independence Day weekend. Instead of $2.19 per stick, I only had to pay $1.49 -- a substantial savings given the quantity here. This is still a bit more money than going with 2x4 or 2x6 sticks and cutting them down -- but the considerable labor saved is worth the slight premium to me.
Douglas Fir was recommended by 'The Yurt Handbook' as an acceptable wood to use (I can't afford the preferred ash). The other above-mentioned dimensions of lumber would have been Doug Fir, but the wood I got on special was unidentified and could be pine or Doug Fir or some third wood I don't recall. Anyway, I hope pine will suffice.
Lastly, a shout out to Jason and Angela for letting me use the basement in their apartment for most of my construction work. You will see it as the featured backdrop in many future photos.
posted by yurt boy at 8:51 PM
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