The Prices Of Reclaimed Wood

In the past couple years I have got into reclaimed wood. About a month ago I cleaned up a barn that had fall down. It took me and 4 other guys 2 full days to clean up the mess, de-nail all the wood, and load it on a trailer. I kept all 2X4 and 2x6, sold the actual wood that came off the sides. Had to haul it about 2 hrs away. Got 1857 dollars. Payed my guys, and came out over $900 ahead, plus 3 truck loads of saw mill cut 2x4 and 2x6, plus a large load of tin that kept. The old corrugated tin. It's rusty and that stuff sells. The same place that buys the lumber gives $2-$5 per sheet, depending on how many holes in it. They pay $2.55 a foot on the oak lumber. Popular and beach is $1.39 a foot. They also buy the tier rails and the posts. If they are hand hued posts, they bring more.
That is NOT typical of all barns. Most are made mainly of popular or beach. This barn had beach and oak, which look the same, unless u look very closely. They looked at the load on my trailer, and said it was all oak. The driver of the forklift unloaded it, signed the ticket as all oak, wrote the footage down, and walked me to the office. I wasn't going to argue with them. And that wasn't the first time they done that, but it was the largest load I took at once.
There is good money in it. I know I guy who bought two Barns to tear down and done the inside of his house