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(More customer reviews)"The Lumberyard" begins with a short tour of a modern lumberyard processing the rough output from a sawmill. Thirty-foot blades, power planers and molders transform the wood into attractive, ready-to-install material.
The DVD then moves onto to lumberyards that specialize in recycled/reclaimed wood from barns, old homes, and pilings - attractive because of their unique appearances.
Colonial lumberyard tools are illustrated (incredibly labor-intensive), and their role in supplying shipyards and the growing railroad industry outlined. I was surprised to learn that until lately, the San Francisco Bay area was a major lumberyard location.
A recent innovation is that of engineered woods, though plywood actually dates back to the Egyptians who used pegs to hold the sheets together. Plywood's strength derives from alternate layers placed at right angles to each other. Oriented-strand wood, comprised of shredded wood, arranged approximately parallel and again in layers at right-angles to each other, is replacing much plywood and making use of pieces that used to become scrap.
Most interesting of all is "glu-lam" - long, large pieces such as beams and trusses comprised of wood layers glued to each other and then joined via finger joints. The output is quite impressive and ready to install at the job site.
Next, "The Lumberyard" shows us so-called exotic woods - mahogany, teak, rosewood, etc. Finally, its on to woods coming from rather exotic sources - eg. logs sunk up to 100 years in the Great Lakes (preserved by the cold water, and also uniquely colored) and located through sonar. The record, however, is held by New Zealand bogs (also providing a preservative shield) holding huge kauri logs that are no longer commercially available. It offers rich gold and cognac colors and a finish that is luminous and glistens as if lit from within; pieces are up to 12' wide.
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