A friend gave me a whole box (several cubic feet) of trimmings from a rough-sawn cedar fencing (?) project.   Don't know what to do with them.   Most are about 16" long and they're about 5.25" wide and 0.5" thick.   Most of the ones I looked at had pith and cupped, so if I ripped out the middle, I'd have some nicer quarter-sawn stuff I could glue up.   I have no idea if stuff like this is treated with anything.

 

Since I am still fed up with my crazy-bird-squirrel-deer-raccoon-possum-anywildlifethatwandersintheyard-lady suburban former neighbor, I do not want a bird house or bird feeder for the property.

 

I doubt it was treated due to cedar’s anti rot properties. Maybe you could make some small planters. 

Snow shoes for the grandchildren. 

You may not need/want a bird house or feeder, but they do make nice gifts for folks to do like them.

Or look over some of Steven Newman's small box builds for ideas.

Or doll house furniture for next year's Christmas for kids projects.

firewood.

Bandsaw boxes.

Cribbage Boards!

Think these might work?

 

On 1/3/2021 at 9:16 PM, kmealy said:

Since I am still fed up with my crazy-bird-squirrel-deer-raccoon-possum-anywildlifethatwandersintheyard-lady suburban former neighbor, I do not want a bird house or bird feeder for the property.

Maybe you could build a few of those squirrel launchers?

they are cedar so yard decorations like flowers, welcome signs, wood mail boxes garden signs. would all be a good use.

 

Donate them for one of the new space satellites!

I use short pieces like those for bird feeders and houses.

7 hours ago, Harry Brink said:

I use short pieces like those for bird feeders and houses.

 

Harry, I haven't kept up in the hobby for quite a few years - but those lighthouse tags used to be highly sought after by collectors, and would bring top dollar in good shape...  That would have been around $75 back then.  Making birdhouses with a tag on the roof was how my son & I got into that hobby; I probably sold a couple hundred of them, with & without the tag, but we only used the common ones we got for free at the junk yard, or without the tag for people to use their own.

 

I just looked at ebay, there are a few like yours on there from $25-60...

Some of the ones, that one include, were supplied by the customers. Most were given to me.

 

@Harry Brink I can see you do not have a yard full of squirrels. Nice design. Made a birdhouse of the same design with my grandson. It does make a nice project for the plates.

Well I tried to start a garden carry-all today.   I found a tag on one piece that they were treated with "micronized copper azole"    Searching on this they say stuff like "well it's safe, but avoid food contact, wash your hands well after using, don't burn, wash clothes separately after working, don't work with sawdust, don't turn on a lathe, don't use on beehives where it might contact honey, etc. etc. etc."    Looks like the garbage man is going to get a load every week for a while.

 

 

Drat. 

3 minutes ago, kmealy said:

Well I tried to start a garden carry-all today.   I found a tag on one piece that they were treated with "micronized copper azole"    Searching on this they say stuff like "well it's safe, but avoid food contact, wash your hands well after using, don't burn, wash clothes separately after working, don't work with sawdust, don't turn on a lathe, don't use on beehives where it might contact honey, etc. etc. etc."    Looks like the garbage man is going to get a load every week for a while.

 

 

Drat. 

 

In superfine print: known to cause cancer in the State of California.

 

Just now, Gunny said:

 

In superfine print: known to cause cancer in the State of California.

 

Probably so.  So is everything that "has mass and occupies space,"  plus radiation, like light.

Not sure if gravity causes cancer, but it can cause broken bones.

 

47 minutes ago, kmealy said:

Not sure if gravity causes cancer, but it can cause broken bones.

 

Also banned in State of California.