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Bugguy
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# Posted: 26 Aug 2011 10:09pm
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I'm a couple of years away from retirement and am thinking about selling the city house, moving to Nashville to be closer to the kid and buying a small plot in Eastern TN.
I have an opportunity to take down a cabin for the logs, but am stuck at how much to offer the owner. It's a 2 story and really run down in thick brush. Just clearing around it will be a hassle. I thought about offering $500 for the logs and salvageable wood. Am I obligated to clean out the whole site? It's probably 14' X 20'.
All I have are inside pictures. Any suggestions or just walk away?
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Bugguy
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# Posted: 26 Aug 2011 10:12pm - Edited by: Bugguy
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Here's 2 more interior pictures. I'm pretty sure this is all red oak.
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Malamute
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# Posted: 26 Aug 2011 10:30pm - Edited by: Malamute
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Guess that would be up to the both of you, what you decided for how much cleanup. If they just want it gone, perhaps free for cleanup, or them pay you some to get it done, and help cover the hauling. Can you just burn the leftovers in place?
It looks pretty rough, it will probably need a good pressure wash or cob blasting to get it cleaned up. Are there any rotten parts?
I've seen where someone will take a deck of cards and cut them in half, stapling each half on logs that mate in the corner joints. You can run suits and numbers up a corner so you can get it restacked in the same order. The joints were probably fitted as they went, and should go back together as they were.
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PlicketyCat
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# Posted: 28 Aug 2011 03:56pm - Edited by: PlicketyCat
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A lot depends on whether you want to reassemble the cabin at a different location or if you just want to salvage the logs for other building purposes. Also whether the logs are just notched together, or whether they are pinned/spiked.
If you just want the logs and they aren't pinned, you can chainsaw the corners and that would go pretty quickly since you don't have to be 100% careful. In this case, I might offer them a couple hundred for the salvage if it didn't involve a ton of cleanup or haul-away.
If you want to reassemble or they're pinned together, that's going to take a lot more time and care. In this case, I'd probably offer to take it down and clear the site, including any haul away, in trade for salvage.
In either case, I agree with Malamute, those logs are going to take a lot of work to get cleaned up. I wouldn't invest too much cash in the deal since you're going to be investing a lot of time to it both for the deconstruction and the rehab. Your time and labor are worth something... even at minimum wage, you're looking at several hundred dollars worth of your time, best case :)
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Brenn
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# Posted: 10 Oct 2011 08:01am
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I need to agree with this: "Probably they just want it gone, perhaps free for cleanup". You should try to negotiate a little harder since you will have to make great efforts until the result you're seeking is achieved. But it sounds to me, that you really want to get it done, so I wish you all the best! PS: Would you give a a note whenever you have your first candle-light evening in front of your Cabin?
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rayyy
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# Posted: 13 Oct 2011 03:44pm
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It's a tough call.You might find that taking it apart is a real bugger.I'd say free just get it out- a -here,sounds good to me.Iv'e gotten ahold of lots of good barn wood in the past by them words.
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carcrossguy
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# Posted: 13 Oct 2011 05:48pm
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Why are people worried about cost of cleaning? I think that would be pretty easy with sand blasting. I'd worry about how straight they are and if they are rotten and what type of wood it is. clean a sample up to see what they look like.
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