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Furniture makers a couple of miles away chucks their offcuts out every week and oh boy the haul I came away with this time 🥵
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CelloMike lemmy.world CelloMike@lemmy.world
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Mostly oak and cherry, and a little bit of walnut and maple

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shittydwarf piefed.ca shittydwarf@piefed.ca
Joined: 2026-05-28
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Peanut butter and jealous over here

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keepee lemmy.world keepee@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-10-01
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I'm not jealous. 😬

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Assassassin lemmy.dbzer0.com Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2025-09-26
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Damn dude, they all look like they've been planed and jointed too 🥵

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fakeman_pretendname feddit.uk fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk
Joined: 2023-07-01
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Damn dude, they all look like they've been planed and jointed too 🥵

Now you've both got wood.

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toofpic lemmy.world toofpic@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-20
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Are they crazy? They don't use any of that to make byproducts? You can glue a few pieces to make new wood slabs for example - of course, usually one-piece things cost more, but it's a lot of material so it's just weird it is not used at all!

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BCsven lemmy.ca BCsven@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2023-06-17
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Are they crazy? They don't use any of that to make byproducts? You can glue a few pieces to make new wood slabs for example - of course, usually one-piece things cost more, but it's a lot of material so it's just weird it is not used at all!

They've probably crunched the numbers, where storing inventory and the labour to piece stuff together is more costly than just tossing out the value of the wood.

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DominusOfMegadeus sh.itjust.works Reverendender@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-07-11
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How do I get on this gravy train?!

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CelloMike lemmy.world CelloMike@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-02-06
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Are they crazy? They don't use any of that to make byproducts? You can glue a few pieces to make new wood slabs for example - of course, usually one-piece things cost more, but it's a lot of material so it's just weird it is not used at all!

I think they make beds and sideboards and other big stuff, so these really are just tiny bits as far as what they're working with, I guess as the other comment says they can just write this stuff off as it'd cost more to retool to use it

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viral.vegabond piefed.social viral.vegabond@piefed.social
Joined: 2024-06-01
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Nice resourcefulness, are you planning on making anything specific?

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Siera feddit.uk Siera@feddit.uk
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