Black Locust Wood Siding

We have products for organic agriculture orchard posts hops poles and fencing building and construction decking flooring siding custom milled parts fascia bench parts furniture as well as kiln dried nhla graded lumber in 4 4 5 4 6 4 and 8 4.

Black locust wood siding.

But with more stability and rot resistance. Black locust will naturally shade the building structure and with its light color and ability to reduce solar gain. Honestly i don t think you have any hope of doing that. The most durable and beautiful environmentally friendly siding choices available great for outdoor siding or for wood features such as soffits and facia.

Prices assume random length and exclude shipping. Stock siding profiles include v groove shiplap flush and shiplap nickle gap. Unlike black locust it takes hundreds to even thousands of years for tropical hardwoods to reach a harvestable size. Black locust robinia pseudoacacia is america s most versatile hardwood.

But exploitative deforestation has driven tropical hardwood species such as ipe big leaf mahogany and teak toward the brink of extinction. Black locust tends to be. Just a quick comment about your 14 bandsaw for milling black locust. Lumber can be sewn up thirty five feet in length.

Like black locust ipe is beautiful and durable wood that can last a lifetime. We offer four specific grades of black locust lumber. Black locust is a very hard and strong wood competing with hickory carya genus as the strongest and stiffest domestic timber. Black locust robinia flooring millwork not your ordinary flooring.

Decking urban green spaces proflow permeable pavers site furnishings and more. The natural properties of black locust brise soleil rainscreens and siding make them a cooler and healthier alternative to other materials. Black locust is a safe environmentally friendly alternative to pressure treated and tropical hardwoods. Custom black locust lumber products for architects landscape designers and exclusive residences we manufacture and design custom black locust lumber products for sustainable architectural projects.

Only about 10 of all black locust logs found in this area end up producing veneer grade material. A plentiful renewable resource that is well suited for all outdoor wood uses. I have been milling wood for 15 years using an old lumbermate bandmill. It will cut through just about any sort of wood some better and faster than others.

Rock hard and ready for your mud room kitchen office show room space or other high traffic high impact areas our black locust flooring is available in a select grade pictured at left and below and a rustic grade. Veneer this grade is very difficult to produce.