

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.
My goal is to produce serviceable lumber, furniture and wood
products made from salvage logs. Sometimes you may find bug
holes or signs of other types of defects in my products. This is
common when using some types of salvage logs and in all
cases will not have any adverse affects on the quality of finished
products I supply. In fact, this is the feature characteristic of the
Tree Bones line of furniture, reminiscent of the antique furniture
finish found in the real thing!
Forest
During commercial harvesting there is 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
Salvage Logs 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 be
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.
" I have milled urban salvage Walnut trees into lumber that
returned to local schools for students to 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 can 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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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.