Wednesday, June 3, 2009
There are quite a few other useful products produced during the dismantling of a building other than just the lumber. A few of these would include blocking for rock crushers and house movers and we palletize for easy shipping! We have lots of windows in many different styles, but most of them will be the old muli- paned ones that are so popular right now with the designers and craft people. There are many barn doors and gates in every size and description. And speaking of doors, people use them too, and we have lots in inventory; from the old five panel door with the glass knobs to the simple cross buck style with the latch and string.There are even a few of the dutch style left! There are lots of other interesting items (I call them "barnifacts"), from the hay trolleys that brought the hay up and into the hay loft off of the wagon to the hundreds of different styles and sizes of door hinges. We have lots of pulleys, some of them with wooden spools (so as not to wear out the rope). How about buckets of square or cut nails?
Barns aren't all we do either. One of our biggest producers of reclaimed old growth lumber is from the old grain elevators that dot our region. If you want reclaimed lumber that is planed to modern specs and yet still from the old growth forests, then you need to see this stuff! The lumber will be a mixture of fir, larch and pine, and it will be about as seasoned and cured as you can get. The walls of these guys are from 40 to 75 feet high and the boards are laid flat, one on top of the other starting with 2 x 8, then 2 x 6, then topped off with a few 2 x 4's. That means that in a 75 foot high wall, it may be as many as 600 boards high! And they have been there, in most cases, since the 1920's. Now that's cured! And pressed! There won't be any warping with this stuff. We also harvest good beams from them. Most are 12 x 12's and 12 x 16's.
It's a fascinating business and I love it. But I'm getting stacked up on some types of inventory, so watch this space in the upcoming few days and weeks and you will start seeing lots of specific items and inventory being offered at money saving special prices! I just need to learn out how to work with this blog so that you and I can get the most out of it. See you tomarrow.
Jeff Williams
Lazy J Lumber
P.O. box 85
Genesee, Idaho 83832
Barns aren't all we do either. One of our biggest producers of reclaimed old growth lumber is from the old grain elevators that dot our region. If you want reclaimed lumber that is planed to modern specs and yet still from the old growth forests, then you need to see this stuff! The lumber will be a mixture of fir, larch and pine, and it will be about as seasoned and cured as you can get. The walls of these guys are from 40 to 75 feet high and the boards are laid flat, one on top of the other starting with 2 x 8, then 2 x 6, then topped off with a few 2 x 4's. That means that in a 75 foot high wall, it may be as many as 600 boards high! And they have been there, in most cases, since the 1920's. Now that's cured! And pressed! There won't be any warping with this stuff. We also harvest good beams from them. Most are 12 x 12's and 12 x 16's.
It's a fascinating business and I love it. But I'm getting stacked up on some types of inventory, so watch this space in the upcoming few days and weeks and you will start seeing lots of specific items and inventory being offered at money saving special prices! I just need to learn out how to work with this blog so that you and I can get the most out of it. See you tomarrow.
Jeff Williams
Lazy J Lumber
P.O. box 85
Genesee, Idaho 83832
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