A couple years ago my grandparents had to move to assisted living. He has told me many times that I was welcome to some of the wood he had stored in his barn, but I felt kind of creepy going into his barn and taking any of it as I have many other cousins and aunts and uncles to consider.
Well my mother called this weekend and said that there had been a family meeting and no one else wanted anything from the barn or any of his tools and that if I wanted any of it, I had better go get it before the property gets sold.
Grandpa was a home builder and a farmer. I have fond memories of visiting his jobsites when I was a little boy, and I worked for him one summer in college. He always used a small 16 oz. leather handled hammer whether framing or finishing. I went into his barn primarily looking for a hammer to have as a keepsake. Well I found two of them along with what my end up being a fortune in lumber
I did not have a trailer with me, so thus far all I brought home was a stack of Walnut (3/4" x 8"-12" wide x 10'-12' long) and some Cherry (3/4" x 6"-10" wide x 8'-10' lg). There still remains two huge stacks (4' wide x 3' tall x 15'-20' lg each stack) of rough sawn ash and oak.
I feel kind of bad taking it, but the rest of the family does not want it.
The hammers prior to cleanup:
The Walnut and Cherry:
