Free wood from fence pickets

 I was over at my cousins house the other day, for clarity lets call him Grobert, thats a pretty common name. Anyway I noticed that he had a pretty cool looking privacy fence. It was the typicle cedar wooden fence that you see all over America.

This fence had been  up for a while and all of the boards had that faded gray color and the condition of the pickets had a really nice distressed look to them. The level of destress that these pickets showed could only be cause by years of exposure to Oklahoma weather, or being around my mother in law for about 10 minutes. 

Coincidentally I happened upon a nice score of some free fence pickets. These were faded and not in the best of condition. I guess that you could call them destressed. 

Unlike most wood workers I prefer to get my wood for free. So the price for all of these cedar pickets was absolutly free. That is just about the best price that you can get. There are a lot of projects that I have planned for this lumber. Here is just a short list:

• Stool to have something that I can move around the yard to sit in that isn't too big and heavy.
• Destressed map plaque of Oklahoma
• Till for my hand plane collection
• Something for my cats to climb on

So come and check back to K5ATG.com and follow along as I attempt to make some of these projects. 

Speeking of destressed, the other day my cousin Grobert came home to find a huge hole in his fence! You should have seen the look on his face when he saw his mange covered three legged Heinz 57 mutt named Grither hobbling along the street with the neighbors prized parrot hanging limply in his mouth. Let this be a lesson, you should always keep your fence well maintained.