Wood has always been an indispensable part of our lives.
Whether it is building a house in the past or making furniture today, it is inseparable from the use of wood.
However, when the house gets old and the furniture becomes old, after demolition, a lot of useless waste wood will naturally be produced, and these still have value in the countryside, that is, making fires for cooking.
However, with the development of the times, environmental protection is also being promoted in rural areas, and the use of firewood for cooking is becoming less and less. This makes a lot of waste wood a pity and useless.
At this time, there were people who specialized in collecting wood at a high price came to the countryside, and at a price that they could hardly refuse, they said that all the wood that occupied the place was taken away.
This wood has become something of no use in the countryside, can it still shine in other places? Can these people who take away wood at a high price still make a fortune from waste wood?
Accumulation of waste wood
With the rise of self-built houses in rural areas, many people choose to tear down and rebuild old houses that have been dilapidated, even if they are not concrete-poured, the use of bricks and tiles is still stronger and more durable than old houses.
With the demolition of old houses and the construction of new houses in rural areas, many old houses are wooden structures, and it is a pity that the wooden beams and beams that have been removed are thrown away.
When the new house is built, there will always be a place dedicated to these clutter, and even if there are things that are not used now, no one knows when they will come in handy.
In the past, these woods could still be used to chop wood for cooking, but with the awareness of environmental protection gradually penetrating the hearts of the people, such wood has gradually moved away from the stove.
With the demolition of the house and the other left, the waste wood piled up in this way.
But after the people who collected wood came from the countryside, the waste wood at home was useless, and under the persuasion of the hawkers, they sold the waste wood that was discarded at home to them in exchange for a part of the profits, so why not.
However, with the increasing number of wood harvested in rural areas, some people have noticed that something is wrong, and the price of these waste wood, which they don't care about at all, is still rising, and there is even a tendency to speculate their prices.
Could it be that in the hands of these peddlers, these pieces of wood have become treasures?
Active hawkers
Walking through the streets and alleys, loudspeakers shouted to collect wood, and the vendors would also give farmers a certain amount of remuneration according to the quality of the wood, and their favorite was the beams and timber left by the demolition of the house, followed by the scattered wood of the furniture, wood, doors and windows, they did not refuse to accept it.
When the vendors told the farmers the price of the wood, many people didn't realize that the wood, which used to be hard to burn, was worth so much money.
The vendors will patiently explain the value of wood to the farmers, and even worry that they will not sell it to them if they say less, and then after telling the price, they will patiently tell the farmers that these things are also taking up space, so it is better to sell them for some money.
The vendors didn't even let the farmers do it, and when they learned that any of them had big wood at home, the vendors took the initiative to help pull it away, and the service was very considerate.
However, even behind their diligence, these pieces of wood can still create another value for them.
The journey of turning waste into treasure
The most popular wood of the hawkers is still the big beams, because this kind of wood is still strong after the baptism of time, which shows that the wood is strong and durable, and the price of such wood is also the highest among the hawkers.
And this kind of wood is actually useless in the hands of the vendors, and the wood they receive will also be traded to their masters, which is also because someone needs this wood, so the business of buying wood came into being.
After the wood is finished, it becomes a small wooden craft that we often see on the street, and most of these things are made from the reuse of these waste wood.
Even in scenic spots or in commodity stores, such wooden crafts have been sought after by people, and compared with small commodities of other materials, wood products have become bestsellers.
However, for these producers, the raw material they need is wood, but fresh wood is not only not able to make crafts, but will dry out as the wood loses moisture, and it is not as good as old dry wood.
At the same time, fresh wood is more expensive than dry wood, and they can save costs while ensuring the quality of the product, so they thought of using waste wood for reuse, which can not only save costs, but also have no impact on the quality of the product.
However, they could not go to the countryside to make their own purchases, so they entrusted others to do the purchases, and the wood collectors came into being.
However, small craft workshops are not suitable for those large pieces of wood, but this does not affect the enthusiasm of the hawkers at all, because small workshops do not want large pieces of wood, but there are still large wood processing factories that need them.
With the innovation of technology, the recycling of these old wood has also come to the forefront, which allows the hawkers who specialize in wood recycling to have a clear goal in their hearts, what kind of wood to give how much, what kind of wood to sell to which workshops, the hawkers are clear.
However, the wood that can be received in the countryside is not only large and complete, there are still many fragments of wood in it, and these are also in the hands of the hawkers, which can create value for them.
They collect the scraps of the timber or the loose pieces of wood and send them to the timber processing plants, although the price is low, but the vendors do not suffer a loss.
For processing plants, such cheap wood is also very useful, they will break it up and process it, and press it into strips of wood, which have extremely standard specifications and shapes, even if they don't use them themselves, such sticks will still be bought and used by workshops.
These wooden strips can be used to make furniture, secondary processing into wooden boards, etc., and even many small wooden commodities are made of these secondary processed wooden strips.
With the increase in market demand, solid wood furniture has also become a favorite object in many families, such a demand has naturally caused changes in the market, especially for wood this resource, although it is renewable, it still has a growth cycle, which makes the cheap waste wood become the best raw material.
This has to say that the vendors like to receive the beams of the house the most, and the complete one can be used in many ways, whether it is to make furniture or others, even the leftovers can continue to be recycled. The wood chips that are crushed after use can also be used to grow mushrooms.
However, this is not the most pleasing part of the hawkers, the most popular thing for the hawkers is that while buying wood, it is possible to pick up leaks.
Panning for gold in the wood
For a lot of old wooden styles, many old people will put some valuable things such as ingots and copper coins on the beams when building houses, and these after the changes of the years, many people do not know these things, and they will be abandoned along with the beams of the house when they are demolished.
And the hawkers who stumble upon these things after receiving the wood make a small fortune like selling antiques and picking up leaks, but such things are rare.
There is also a kind of gold panning in order to be able to receive rare wood, when the ancients built a house to make furniture, they would choose those wood that can resist corrosion, and in the past, many of today's precious woods were made into furniture, or used in building houses.
With the erosion of time, the surface of these wood has long been indiscerning, and with the passage from generation to generation, it is even more difficult to find the value of these wood, as the hawkers buy it, they are all taken away at the price of ordinary wood.
Although the probability of this kind of thing happening is very small, but these are regarded as gold panning for leaks after work, or let many hawkers talk about it, for the old wood, the historical value is even much greater than the value of their wood, and when encountering such a thing, the hawkers will steal the fun.