Salvage Tips #4 (more free materials towards your tiny house/cabin/building projects....

Here's a cool email (below) I got the other day from a blog reader- left as is- some cool ideas, and Mike's right, boatyards tend to be a place that "harbor" (wocka, wocka...), wasteful types.....

As always, we appreciate any of your ideas and input..... and we'll have more photos on that recent gypsy wagon project soon.
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boatyard painting from samlow.com

 Hi Deek,

Bought your book, follow your blog, always accumulating stacks of rescued boards and lumber in the back yard for projects.

A great place to dumpster dive: boatyards, especially now when guys are taking off the winter covers and getting ready to put the boats in the water. 

Stuff I have actually found in boatyard dumpsters:

* Lots of 1x2 lath (used as supports for winter covers).... I built a tree house out of this stuff, and an arbor for my back deck.

* Plastic shrink wrap material ... a substitute for Tyvek? (Deek: Prob TOO airtight- but there would be tons of other uses for it).

* Copper wire

* left over, partially empty cans of paint (Deek: Marine paint is usually very high grade, and VERY expensive).

* various boat fittings (hinges, latches, other nice chrome plated bronze thingies)

* quality lumber, especially teak, oak and mahogany.  I just finished building a really nice sofa table out of thrown out oak lumber and the top is a couple of mahogany boards that were the back seat of an outboard boat. Little useless chunks of oak board make my Sunday barbeque smell like a fancy Italian restaurant. (Deek: GREAT firewood too- if not treated/stained).

* electronics (marine radios, cd players, speakers etc.) Some broken, some not.

* flare guns and flares .... July 4 fun?  Home defense??? (Deek: Er.....might want to leave these behind- lol- unless for use on your own boat).

* First aid kits and supplies

* fishing tackle and lead fishing weights (can be sold for the metal melt value)

* rope, cord, fishing line

* tons of recyclable bottles and cans = $$$

A couple of hours on weekend mornings cruising the boatyard dumpsters along Quincy-Weymouth-Hingham (Massachusetts) coast usually yield about $30 in recyclable beverage units plus AT LEAST a couple of the other treasures listed above.(plus, its fun! (Deek's note)).

All the best,

Mike

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Good stuff Mike! Thanks so much!

-Derek "Deek" Diedricksen