Here’s an example of a cabin that was in as bad of a condition as could be, and still be standing.
I bought this cabin off of a farmer who was concerned that the falling structure was going to injure (or worse) some of his cattle.
I saw no value, or use, for the badly decayed cabin, but I knew I could use the stone on an upcoming project.
I had a young man stop by when I was looking the cabin over, who really wanted the logs to salvage to create antique lumber out of it. He offered me money for the rights to the logs, which I declined after telling him that I didn’t see any potential for anything worthwhile in the structure for him to cut, but if he still wanted to try, the logs were his for the effort.
He came in shortly after that and carefully took down the logs, hauled them to his home-place where he had one of those portable sawmills and cut all those logs up.
He later told me that he thought he got enough salvageable wood out of that pile to pay for his gas.
In this business we learn more from our failures than we do from our successes.
Originally posted 2015-05-23 16:14:28.