Saving this house’s wood from landfill (about $15k worth)

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A mixture of David Attenborough, Steve Irwin and a bloody legend is how I would describe Beau. Peace and love from Ireland boss 🇮🇪

I demoed a house in Utah. The amount of high value material being scrapped was unbelievable. Copper pipe, appliances, roof tiles, lumber, furniture, all crushed and trucked off to a landfill. It made me realize that there are so many business opportunities in salvage and re-selling.

That was my family home as a kid for the first 11 years of my life. Great memories. Thanks for doing it justice Beau, great to see that it will have a new life. :D

An honest inspiration in a truly dishonest time

The point about feeling a sense of ownership over something like a piece of rubbish even when it isn't yours really hit home. If that was a more common feeling then maybe we'd all be in a better place.

Eucalyptus hardwood framing, probably old growth too. That wood is too valuable to rot in a landfill and can last hundreds of more years. Thank you for saving it, but mostly thanks for showing us how its done in such an easy to watch video. You're a huge role model of mine. As for a question for the podcast, how do you determine when its time to let go of material. Things are always useful but what's the line between collecting vs hoarding.

You remind me of a carpenter I know. Always trying to save good wood or materials from buildings that are being broken down/renovated. Most times my brothers and I felt obligated to help on the jobs he's done. For some reason it brought a tears to my eyes. Maybe because we are all busy with our own lives now, and even though it was hard work, I realize now that those were precious hours spent. You remind me of my dad.

I've recently quit my job and am having both an existential and mid life crisis at the same time. On top of that I just visited my grandfather who's on his last legs. The combination of my Pop's truly staggering stories of a time bygone and your uplifting spirit and ethereal production quality is truly making what is a most unpleasant time in my life just that little bit more bearable. So, thankyou Beau. I've just binge watched all your videos and you have no idea the comfort you've provided me.

Read your book, listened to every podcast episode, watched every video,… Every new one is like a cold glass of water on a hot day. Really appreciate you making these!

Loved this one! Just last year our (wife, 2 kids, and I) house was eminent domained to be leveled down and turned into a soccer field. I talked them into salvage rights and pulled every copper pipe, every cast iron radiator, hundreds of feet of electric line, every other 2x4 just to keep the house standing, out of the place. Ended up buying an 1890s fixer upper and used a ton of that material in the new place. Might have a new building as a house, but knowing part of our last home now sits behind the drywall in the new place is its own kind of consolation.

I've gutted and torn down hundreds, if not thousands, of structures, and in my ignorance, never thought anything of it. I truly appreciate how you showed what can be saved in these circumstances if you've just got the gumption to do it. Thanks for taking the time do it and filming it for us to be inspired by.

You made me feel sad about the wood that was left over, and I think if you can convince people to feel emotions for inanimate objects, then thats the sign of a good storyteller. Good work, Beau

Now I don't feel so bad for keeping everything until I find a use for it! Legend Beau, an absolute legend.

This made me tear up. My family was displaced from my childhood home, which was the former office of a early 1900 timber company (aka lots of good wood). The house was torn down along with 100+ year old trees on the property and taken to the dump. the lot has now been empty for years waiting for someone to build a mansion. As you said, these houses are more than buildings. That home held so much for me and I can’t even describe what it would mean for me to even have a single brick of that home. It makes me feel ill to think that my home literally was thrown away and those materials were wasted. I wish I had the opportunity to do what you’ve done here. Thanks for sharing, Beau!

I also eat people's leftovers, rescue old pallets and other junk and pick up trash on the side of the road. I loved this video.

Beau Miles is THE example of what many of us should aspire to be. Beautiful outlook, beautiful family, beautiful friends. I am amazed and regenerated after bingeing on a few of these vlogs

I never click post notifications as fast as I do for the new Beau Miles video!

HOW DOES HE NOT HAVE MILLIONS OF SUBSCRIBERS? IT BLOWS MY MIND. Its great content, but even if you didn't like the subject matter, the filmmaking is exquisite, the music he puts on the video is always so tasteful and moving. The part where Beau talks about wishing he didn't care...man, just what an insight! I really resonated with that! Everytime I see a new upload from Beau I put my phone down and find the biggest screen I can watch it on!

10:30 "During my first coffee break this morning, I said nahh'N had a little bit of a moment... I was thinking, y'know I don't even really like this, the fact that I've got to care." Damn, that hits like a falling log... Your passion is remarkable, and it's shame it always seems to come at the price of mornings/nights like this. Thanks for caring dude.