Salvage Logs

Making the Most of Our Natural

Resources

Reuse, Recycle and Repair
Our Planet

Salvage logs can be one of many types of trees that

come

from

the forest,

urban

community's

or the big city's.

goal

to produce

serviceable

lumber,

furniture and wood

products

made from salvage logs.

Forest

During

commercial

harvesting there

always a percentage of

logs

that will have some type of defect such as rot,

disease

scares or

even the fact that the trees are not the target species

being

harvested. In these cases these trees are deemed

Non Marketable

alvage

ogs

and are left to rot, burned at the harvest location or

sometimes

ground into chips and burned to produce electricity.

Urban

Have you ever wondered what happens to the trees

lining

the

streets

of small towns or the big city's when they die or need to

removed? More and more areas of our

country

are

recognising

the

value of these trees. In the past most trees were

dumped at the

expense

of the city tax payers. Today some of

these trees are

turned

into

picnic

tables

for city parks and

benches at bus stops.

have

milled

urban

salvage Walnut

trees into lumber

that

returned to local

schools

students

use in

wood

shop

classes.

Have you seen a building site cleared of all trees so that a house

shopping mall or roads can be built. These trees are considered

salvage logs and

an be processed by portable

sawmills to be

made

into lumber but in most cases these logs will end up in a

landfill or

someones fireplace.

Salvage
Logs

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Think Globally
Act Locally

Since trees are one of America’s most treasured natural resources,
using portable sawmills to convert scrap trees into usable lumber
is another conservation measure that just makes sense.