How to Salvage Old Barn Wood

I agree, unfortunately, however, you're not the first kid on th block to have it. There is even an outfit in Vermont that travels pretty good distances to find barns, etc., to take down. They truck the salvage back to New England where they have large sheds for dry storage and commercial grade milling machines. Not to rain on your parade, but I thought you should be warned that there is competition out there.

Anote source:  A friend worked for a "hazardous waste abatement" company with a contract to demolish old factory and mill buildings on our nearby river front. Many of these were built in the 1800s, and he told me there were lots huge, really huge, timbers as well as floor planking going to waste. He was an engineering sort and he would have agreed with you. However, he pointed out there was an ample "supply" at one end of the chain, and a pretty good "demand" at the other, there was no transportation in between. Too bad; if you were looking for just "old wood"  some of those abandoned industrial buildings had stuff that would make barn framing look like match sticks.

your local library should have some public computers with fast connections.  if not, try the library at your local community college. 

You would think that someone with the name progressivefarmer would realize their are still a whole lot of people for whom dial up is their ONLY option to use the internet. ;) Sl...O...W dial up at that Progressive farmer grab some stills from the vid and make an 'ible that everyone can use. You can always embed the youtube video for those fortunate enough to have faster connections. James you can alwayd use a video downloader to download the video and go do something else while the thing down loads.