I made this! - Shelf from creosote driftwood - 11 feet long!
I MADE THIS! A couple of years ago, I retrieved a very long and heavy piece of lumber driftwood from the drainage canal behind my house . the canal is 15' across at the waterline. The banks are about 12' at a 45 degree angle. It took me a couple hours to get it out of the canal and pull it up the bank. It's waterlogged weight was 450-500 lbs. It took me another couple hours to put it on level bricks, on the patio area that got good sun. I decided that It would become my new shelf-Plank. T he distress and occasional hole in this 3" thick plank , leads me to project that this plank had been roaming around the waters for 2 to 5 years before I grabbed it. The worn ends, the distressed underside, and especially the random holes through 3" of a creosote plank!... shelf-Plank 11" x 2&1/8" x 11' When the shelf-Plank started drying, I could see that it was very old creosote. I let it dry in the sun a...