A year or two ago I fancied doing some woodwork, including a bar and counter tops for my daughters' Wendy house. Rather than buy cheap rubbish from B&Q a few choice pieces of mahogany were the order of the day.
I bid on a lot of hardwood out of an architectural salvage company which was closing down, having specialised in fitting out pubs.
I won the lot for a few hundred pounds having not seen it and arranged for their local transport to bring it to me.
I was surprised when they turned up in a 7.5 tonne truck. The guys went in the back and came out with a massive bar top about 5 metres in length by 600 wide and a full two inches thick, of solid African mahogany.
After we manoeuvred it into the garage, they went back in the truck and came out with another. In fact they kept going back in and the wood kept coming out for about two hours.
A lot of the stock was Victorian or older mahogany counters, much of it beautiful Cuban mahogany, which is an endangered species and now unavailable.
Some was American black walnut panelling taken from demolished Victorian banks, with a minority of oak and pitch pine panelling too.
By the time they left, not only was the garage floor covered to waist height, the workbench was stacked to the ceiling, a large portion of the front drive was covered with wood and eight huge pitch pine panels which didn't fit in the garage were stacked up the side passageway.
As I stood on the drive scratching my head and feeling like a prize idiot, my sarcastic neighbour walked up and asked me whether I had opened up a door warehouse.
Needless to say there was plenty for the Wendy House. The pine panelling I sold on eBay, with the buyer arranging their own transport, and that alone covered the cost of the lot and the transport. What we see here is some of the leftovers which are waiting around for my next woodwork project. Today's job is to shift it, about two tonnes I'd guess, to the new shed at the bottom of the garden. I may not get it all done as several pieces are a two man lift.
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