Trees To Make Hardwood Floors

How to make a wood floor from raw wood.

Trees to make hardwood floors.

Send them through the gang saw and have them ripped a full half inch wider than the size flooring you want. Part of the improvements to our family room included replacing the carpet with hardwood floors. I decided to use ash for the floor because it s lighter color. Species include some oak varieties hickory cherry walnut poplar and a number of others.

There are a few trees here and there that have fallen due to storms age etc. More than half of hardwood harvested domestically is oak that grows from new england to the midwest. After building the sawmill i decided to make some ash flooring for my house. Would it be possible to have someone make wood flooring from some of these trees.

Russian olive wood is probably the most distinctive being almost chocolate colored it is a very beautiful wood. In this particular project wood logs are sliced 1 thick and are being positioned to create the most beautiful natural hardwood floor i ve ever seen. Also imports quite a bit of exotic hardwood like mahogany rosewood teak and wenge which typically grow in more tropical regions like brazil and indonesia. There are three common hardwood trees in northeast montana they are the ash the siberian elm and the russian olive.

This room was only 250 sq ft. Take the hardwood tree to the saw mill to have them cut down into rough planks. I have about 2000 square feet to do. Cordwood construction cordwood construction is a technique dating back many years where the builders use fallen trees or logs cut from logged trees.

In addition we have a couple of trees that will need to come down in the not too distant future.