Things built, torn down and other projects.(Pictures)

#376
#376
can't believe I just today stumbled across this thread. BF & Slice, that's some great stuff you do.
read it from start to finish.
tearing down the barns looks like a lot of fun. I wouldn't have minded that at a younger age but I couldn't keep up now.
Y'all keep it posted. good stuff. I too am in the Chattanooga/Ooltewah area. Maybe see you around.
 
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#377
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joevol33 said:
I’ve wondered about you. Thought it might’ve just been too cold!
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Never gets too cold.. just add more layers.

Now in the summer is when it can suck. You get out there in 95 degree heat and humidity through the roof and it gets miserable. You can't get nekkid enough.

Well, you can but it can get awkward if your not far enough away from the main road to be seen. Lol
 
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buckfama said:
Never gets too cold.. just add more layers.

Now in the summer is when it can suck. You get out there in 95 degree heat and humidity through the roof and it gets miserable. You can't get nekkid enough.

Well, you can but it can get awkward if your not far enough away from the main road to be seen. Lol
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Haha
 
#383
#383
hey Buck,
I used to work with a guy at Sequoyah who used your Buckfama name on his license plate. You didn't used to work there did you?
 
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Smokey X said:
hey Buck,
I used to work with a guy at Sequoyah who used your Buckfama name on his license plate. You didn't used to work there did you?
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No sir. Tried to get on there as a firefighter one time. I was a Chattanooga firefighter for 10 years before I left to start this.
 
#385
#385
Doing the final burn on this job. Burned today and will do a clean up tomorrow and burn what little is left. Property owner is responsible for the block and concrete.

I grubbed out at least another 1300 board feet of 1x material which should be worth close to $2,000.

That's puts the total off this one barn over $20k.

Unreal.

If you back out the 2 weeks or so of down time I had because of bad weather, took a few days off, and going to Pennsylvania to buy the new truck, that's what I made in right about a month of work.

The new buyers and the work I have put in finding them, upgrading my trailer a and equipment are paying off.

I had another buyer from Ohio contact me last night from out of the blue. Have no idea where he got my number and name from. I quoted him the highest price on delivered oak I have ever quoted and he never blinked, just agreed to the price and said it seemed fair.

My name is getting out there and this is really starting to take off for me.

I'm about to get serious about hiring help.

If I could add 2 good workers I could probably triple what I'm producing now.

I'm also going to look at renting or buying a lull for some jobs to speed it up.

My plan is in 6 months to start shipping tractor flatbed loads which is around 10 to 15k board feet a load which would translate to $18 to $28k a load. I hope I can do that monthly. Going to buy some property soon to have a place to stage it.

It's growing, the potential is there. I have built a solid foundation by supplying a quality product and word is getting out.

Just have to be sure I control the growth and don't promise more than I can deliver, which I have been careful not to do so far.

I have a 5 year plan in place which I won't get into here, but it will get me to the retail side and supplying flooring, wall coverings, and maybe furniture, on top of supplying raw wood and hand hewn beams to customers.

I'm so glad I decided to leave the fire department and public service to do this. This will change me and my families lives.
 

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Finishing up this job. Did the final clean up burn. I would already be finished but the landowner gave me a fence to take down.

Here is the conversation..

Mark - looks like your done.

Me - yup, just denailing these few boards and it's a wrap. I'll load up and be out of your hair.

Mark - can you use those boards on that fence?

Me - (gazing lovingly at all that free money nailed to the poats) you mean that 150 yard stretch of red oak, 1 1/4 inch thick grey board? Yes sir, if you want it gone I'll take it. (Grinning at this point)

You would grin too if someone just gave you 2 grand. Lol

This has been a great job. Learned some new stuff.

Got to hang out with a country music legend who I'm a big fan of and become friends with.

Grew my business and made a ton of new contacts.

Just have to finish this fence tomorrow, little trimming and denailing, another trip to a buyer and off to the next one.

Looks like I'm off to Madisonville Tn for the next one.

I'll post pics when I get started.
 
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Few pics of the fence boards, what I have trimmed and denailed, and the fence.
 

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That's cool. I like him and them. But I don't consider him a Legend. Ah, but some girls do. :)
 
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Here is a cool little story that was told to me by a local historian that stopped by the jobsite one day.

It's the story of how Centerville became the county seat of Hickman county instead of Nunnley where it originally started.

Not sure of the year this happened but it was sometime in the late 1800's.
Nunnley had been the county seat and the heart of Hickman county since around 1820 or so when the Nunnleys settled there.

They built the general store in 1850. It had a mailroom on one side, a plow repair shop on the other.

Coffins were made upstairs above the main store, which was where they also stored their financial records and goods. There was aa blacksmith shop across the street.

There was a desk in the back that was where official county business was held, including court.

Behind it was a small room with bars on the windows was Hickman counties first jail.

Nunnley was little more than a wide place in the road, but it was where most of Hickman counties economy came from due to the Nunnleys. They owned over 10,000 acres in Hickman county at one time and were by far it's wealthiest citizens. They pretty much got what they wanted.

Centerville had began to grow and many wanted it to become the new county seat.

The Nunnleys refused to allow it to be moved to Centerville. They wanted it right where it was and it was gonna stay there.

In the meantime, county affairs had outgrown the little room and desk in the back room of the general store, so a new log building was built on the hill above the store and it was relocated there.

The argument continued on for awhile. Most folks wanted it moved, the Nunnleys said no.

Stalemate.

Until one night a group of citizens from Centerville took matters into their own hands.

They stole it.

Some citizens from Centerville gathered some volunteers , a few wagons and after the sun set drove the 7 miles or so down to Nunnley.

There, under the cover of darkness, they disassembled the new log cabin the county seat resided in and loaded it on the wagons. They then snuck it back to Centerville where it was reassembled and proclaimed the new county seat of Hickman county.
 
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