Sentences with phrase «of lumber milled»

Whole timber supports 50 percent more weight than than the largest piece of lumber milled from the same tree.

Formerly a timber town, Cottage Grove never recovered from decreased logging and modernization of the lumber mills in the 1990s and the financial crisis of 2008.

Finally, just like the flooring that came out of lumber mills long ago, Elongé floors give you the option of wider or variable widths.

Not exact matches

These managers oversee the operations of mines, lumber mills, or fisheries.

In this excerpt from Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, the story of how Musk made his way from South Africa to Canada and then the U.S., leaving lumber mills and frat parties in his wake.

Over the past 12 months, prices have increased 19 % on steel mill products, 17 % on copper and brass mill shapes, 7.6 % on gypsum products like wallboard and plaster, and 7.3 % on lumber and plywood, according to data released last week by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Another factor that is different today than in the past is that many of the large western Canadian lumber companies have been buying mills in the U.S..

«The last softwood lumber agreement didn't work for the tens of thousands of people who lost their jobs with the closure of about 100 local mills.

Those of you who work over at the lumber mill, imagine you get a speck of sawdust in your eye, as has probably happened to you several times, and as you hold your eye, and squint, and try to get the speck out, a coworker comes over and says, «Here, let me help you get that out.»

Portion of the lumber was milled from trees harvested at Drumlin Farm (larch for the porch decking was harvested to clear the area for the new building)

All of Odie & Board's products are created in their Minneapolis workshop, many of them using lumber handpicked from Minneapolis lumber mills.

Travel 140 kilometres (87 miles) to the former lumber milling town of Walpole and have a coffee at Four Sisters Coffee Shop before you visit the Valley of the Giants Tree Top Walk, a 40 metre (131 foot) high walkway through the forest's canopy designed to move — which is fun or scary, depending on your perspective — with the majestic red - barked tingle eucalyptus trees that are found nowhere else in the world.

Built in 1916 by the McCloud River Lumber Company to house the single men working in the lumber mill, the Hotel has been lovingly restored to meet the needs of today's discerning traveler whether passing through or staying over to enjoy the many things to see and explore nearby.

The rivermouth, which leisure craft now ply, was once the site of a large timber mill from where the local lumber was shipped to Brisbane by paddle - steamer.

To ease pressure on the sources of the most coveted woods, like pure black ebony from Madagascar, Taylor Guitars, a top competitor of Gibson, bought a lumber mill for ebony in Cameroon and the company's president, Bob Taylor, launched a campaign to convince the industry, and guitar buyers, to get more comfortable with the streaked varieties of this wood from sustainably managed forests there.

Their harvest will be the complete forest some of which may find its way to lumber mills or to foreign markets without processing.

Improvements in technology, science and a skilled workforce have improved milling efficiency, resulting in production of more lumber and less waste.

And they invested plenty of their hobby and interest time back into the house — Kenny made their custom cabinets, welded the hardware for their barn - style bathroom door, and even milled some of their own lumber.

But research conducted by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), based on a systematic appraisal of the economic and social impacts of chainsaw milling in the Congo Basin — the informal lumber sector — indicates it is much more important than suggested in regulatory frameworks and official data.

It is a leading US producer of wood pellets from fallen limbs, tree tops, lumber mill waste, but mostly, farmed pine trees.

Why bother to cut and mill 2x4s when wood as fuel will yield double or triple per ton of lumber.

In heavy industy, fossils fuels will always be required for lime and cement kilns, metal smelters, steel mills, foundries and metal casting plants, metal cutting and braising torches, all factories that make ceramics (e.g., bricks, tiles, china, glass, etc), all food production, processing and distribution, space and water heating, cooking and baking, BBQ's, manufacture of porcelain - coated metals, harvesting of wood and lumber manufacture, isolation of essential oils by steam distillation for prepartion of fine fragrances flavors, etc because the fuels provide HIGH HEAT.

It used to be known as heavy timber or mill decking and is drop - dead simple: you just nail a pile of lumber together and voila.

This increased mortality has led to closures of many lumber mills.

Oh, and they take the weight of steel from engineers as a given, but for wood they add 15 % for lumber yard and site cull, as if there has never been a piece of steel tossed into a bin on a job site, and another 25 % for mill waste.

Heiken claims that effectiveley only 15 % of the lumber ever gets to the stage that it is actually sequestering carbon, and the rest is lost to slash, mill waste, processing and transport emissions.

Rather that amount was tied up in timber sales deposits and a sufficient cushion of logs and lumber to meet the mill's requirements and to provide flexibility to ramp up production in the event of peaks in the lumber market.

In its early days, the city of Post Falls hosted a thriving lumber industry and was named after Frederick Post, a German immigrant who built a lumber mill along the Spokane River.

Demopolis is home to an eclectic blend of small businesses, including contractors, cement companies, paper mills and lumber yards.

Our client, a leading producer of strapping and packaging systems, is seeking a skilled Field Service Technician to install, repair and provide service to packaging machinery in cotton gins, corrugated plants, steel mills, paper mills, lumber mills, brick plants and general industry.

Position Overview Mill workers work in different types of mills, including saw mills, lumber mills, and production mills, depending on their interest and areas of expertise.

Our Thanksgiving traditions have been the same for many years — we start off with a visit to a local lumber mill who also sells the most amazing apple cider donuts, makes their own cider and sells heirloom varieties of apples, then it's off to the pumpkin patch and finally a visit to a local apple winery where we choose the wine for dinner.