our forests are in natural resource benefiting all of us
and they're largely started by private landowners many them
farmers well how this resource make that possible
for the fourth-generation family-owned business lash way lumbers in
Williamsburg
to source although its lumber from within 30 miles
incredible teeth executive director Phil corman tells us more
Massachusetts for us are really important for all of us
they provide us with clean air they provide us with water
and they provide us with fuel for our homes and also they provide us with the
basic
wood products we need to build our homes and to build other products you use in
our everyday lives
at last we lumber which is a locally owned business
all the lumber is coming from within 30 miles up the business
we usually talk about local food local farms and today we're taking a look at
a local product that's being made for the rest the ball a bus
here in the valley and throughout Massachusetts
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lashing number is four generations my great grandfather started the business
back in nineteen that work well we have a
a couple girl crews out there on harvesting timber
so im cummin on trucks
we were done
rated Thornton and then order by order was inside out
once its
hi in sin lose one more process which is the drying
which is that you were most crucial processes in any kinda
prosecution would so what happens is we use is back in films to dry the word
so that we plow all the water
will bring the moisture content down to sixty percent so the wood doesn't move
the kilns are your with with are byproducts
so now we think are ways to from the sawmill in WI
burning here to supply both tell when we but he's back in kilns
we've intended too dry or number but it's actually turned into an
week different business for example we we now dry
baseball bats which are maple bats for Rawlings
baseball with dry Qatar parts for almost
every major Qatar company in the country I'm
certain things on the guitars from certain guitar companies we drive for
example we dry
are the ebony from Martin guitar which is all your finger boards in bridges
we try some guitar necks for
fender we try some Qatar bodies
for a Gibson in drying conventionally
for for maple her for these baseball bats
around forty five days in his back and killed we have
which are kinda the New Age vacuum drying we doing about six days
in the ebony from Marin was taking the year
and we're doing in eight days so the industry is changing the
the killings are changing but
its the direction we felt we have to go with to
keeps arriving so from last number
we receive about a eighty percent of our red oak will come from there
and public that the same same percentage our way
comes from watching its mostly flooring great material
we're bringing that lumber and was sorting it by different orders
different grades different types of flooring the with supplying
in taking here and manufacturing custom Floyd
usually the first thing when people walk in they say
I didn't realize it was so many different options when it comes to
hardwood flooring
and I usually tell them take what we have here in times by
10 one of my favorite its customers to deal with is
is a home owner builder that I actually come into the shower room in the first
question at the mouth as
work in we buy that is local
in its so nice to hear that in what I
show them right away is our northern red oak and ash
or eastern white pine
well this is a perfect example are a northern red oak floor
in a character grade you seen the natural beauty other a victory when you
buy a player like this
the knots the color variation this is a product that we get
any day of the week from last year lumber this was custom saddam custom
dried
by my father and my brother we do fly like this
left on the story about this in now
in the customs line that we're making this is the type of wine we see more and
more people really
I look into the natural beauty have the tree and they want to bring that into
their homes
and put it down