Do You Know Where to Look for Reclaimed Lumber?

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Are there good places to look for reclaimed wood and barn wood that is being you know taken apart one by one or even if there's demolitions the idea of going and trying to take as many beams as possible and reuse it. Are people doing more of that and is that lumber accessible to people? Totally. I think that is a great idea but it's all systems it's all like how we live in an economic system so how can you from a process standpoint do it wildly, he says.

What’s the customary 5th Anniversary gift? Apparently… WOOD! So we wrangled our favorite sawmill owner/operator of LA’s Angel City Lumber, Jeff Perry – who rescues downed street trees from the chipper and turns them into beautiful planks, boards, stumps and chonks. We cover everything from forest management to 2x4s, wood grain, burls, bog logs, sawdust, tree disease, asparagus tips, salvaged lumber, kiln drying, Westward expansion, Indigenous forest management, cedar whiff, and how working with wood changes your relationship to death.

Angel City Lumber website

Donations went to The Mother Tree Project via this link

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