This is Montricher-Albanne, at 1,200 metres altitude.
I wouldn’t change it for the world.
Wood is a living thing.
Even after being cut, it’s alive.
It will always work. So you have to know
how to work with it.
Wood works differently.
Every day we wonder and ask ourselves -
“If I put this piece of wood like this,
will it be correct to do what I want to do?
Or should I take another one
because of the grain...?”
You always have to be on the lookout for…
You have to look at the wood.
My name is Yvan Cometto
and my company is called YC Charpente.
My grandfather was a carpenter.
Then it was my turn, I took an apprenticeship,
at 14 years old,
and I always wanted to have the…
It’s the passion for wood.
I wanted to do it because I wanted to do
what I wanted.
I wanted to create my things,
not be guided by someone telling me to do it this way.
It’s me, myself, who wants to do it like this, in this way,
To have the feeling
of having done your own thing, as it should be done, from yourself.
Because we have a region famous for having beautiful larches,
with very beautiful grain.
All my customers usually come from my region.
I looked a bit, I searched the Internet a bit,
looking for sawmills, and see the the existing type of sawmills,
and then I came across Wood-Mizer,
with videos on social media. I looked at a few.
Then I looked at
where it was located.
Then suddenly, I came to see,
over there, in Saint-Jean-de-Bournay.
For the moment, the main activity of the company,
is about everything related to wooden decking.
Wooden decking, chalet extension.
A little bit of carpentry,
and everything that is sawn timber.
All this makes you interested.
All woods, every wood we cut, every day, are not the same,
because the grain is not the same, the wood works differently.
Every day we wonder and ask ourselves -
“If I put this piece of wood like this,
will it be correct to do what I want to do?
Or should I take another one,
because of the grain...?”
You always have to be on the lookout for…
You have to look at the wood,
once sawn,
to see if we are on the right lines with the job.