The unsung-hero of the garage...wood.

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We all have our favorite tools/things in the garage. Of course we think about our ratchets and wrenches. Or, if youre like Jeremy Clarkson, it's your assortment of hammers.
But there's an unsung hero, at least in mine, and that 'tool'...BLOCK OF WOOD


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Surely I cant be alone. I have a 4x4 piece of wood, about 12" or so long, that makes it's way into my heart on so many projects.
Today, as I do my suspension, it helps keep pressure off of the brake lines by supporting the calipers. As I did my intercooler, I would stand on it to get a little more height to clear the sloping 'roof' line. Sometimes it's used to go between the jack and the car. Ive used it/them to hammer on some metal to straighten it out. This block has been with me since I moved in over 5 years ago.
THANK YOU, block of wood.
 
We burned firewood growing up for home heat. We wound up cutting a lot of wood every year. My mom had mad chainsaw skills and was an expert at tree ID. Kind of a passion of hers.

One year, she sawed up a huge dogwood (huge for a dogwood) that had come down during logging on a friend’s property. The base piece of that dogwood was probably 10-12” across. Did I mention how dense that piece of wood was? Said friend, who was in the logging equipment business, told her that dogwood had more BTUs per pound than any other common wood.

My mom was so impressed by that base piece, she refused to burn it. She set it up just outside our carport door and there it sat for most of my childhood up until the day my dad sold the house and moved to be closer to her Alzheimer’s care unit. More than once, I grabbed it to do something practical and useful with it while working on this, that, or the other. She would come out yelling for me to leave her dogwood alone.

Ironically, we had a dog that would chew on it before coming back into the house. That amused her quite a bit since it was DOGwood. But, let one of us touch it and the game was on.

My boys and I loaded the moving truck for my dad back in 2018, when he left the family home of 41 years. I don’t remember seeing that hunk of dogwood. He might have left it there. A sister might have taken it. I wish I had grabbed it and put it outside our front door. It was still as dense and strong as ever, minus a few splinters that the dog ate years ago.

Mom passed last week after slowly dying for the previous 11 years. I know God has a sense of humor. Maybe she found that old piece of wood sitting beside the Pearly Gates, waiting for her, along with her old dog….
 
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I can be a bit of a hoarder... but when it comes to random chunks of wood, it's terrible
well that one is a wedge shape. i need it.
well that one will work great as a soft mallet that won't damage what i'm hitting
i can cut that one down next time i need a small piece and still have some left
 
Yep! I've got mostly chunks of 6x6, and a few larger that are now almost black from all of the tile they've soaked up
over the years.
 
Can’t be a shade tree anything without wood. I keep several piles of all shapes, sizes, and dimensions stacked up.
 
I finished restoring a Jeep TJ a little over a year ago. I don’t know how I would have got by without several 6x6 timber’s and some 2x4s.
 
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