Black Locust Wood Siding

Black locust is a safe environmentally friendly alternative to pressure treated and tropical hardwoods.

Black locust wood siding.

A plentiful renewable resource that is well suited for all outdoor wood uses. Decking urban green spaces proflow permeable pavers site furnishings and more. Black locust robinia flooring millwork not your ordinary flooring. Black locust is a very hard and strong wood competing with hickory carya genus as the strongest and stiffest domestic timber.

Black locust fence posts have been noted to last eighty years in some of america s toughest climates. Only about 10 of all black locust logs found in this area end up producing veneer grade material. Honestly i don t think you have any hope of doing that. Prices assume random length and exclude shipping.

It will cut through just about any sort of wood some better and faster than others. Although it shares a similar common name with honey locust the two aren t in the same genus robinia and gleditsia respectively. 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. I have been milling wood for 15 years using an old lumbermate bandmill.

But exploitative deforestation has driven tropical hardwood species such as ipe big leaf mahogany and teak toward the brink of extinction. Stock siding profiles include v groove shiplap flush and shiplap nickle gap. Just a quick comment about your 14 bandsaw for milling black locust. Unlike black locust it takes hundreds to even thousands of years for tropical hardwoods to reach a harvestable size.

The most durable and beautiful environmentally friendly siding choices available great for outdoor siding or for wood features such as soffits and facia. Veneer this grade is very difficult to produce. The natural properties of black locust brise soleil rainscreens and siding make them a cooler and healthier alternative to other materials. Black locust robinia pseudoacacia is america s most versatile hardwood.

In the past we have supplied black locust as large 12 x12 x18 and 6 x6 x26. Like black locust ipe is beautiful and durable wood that can last a lifetime. But with more stability and rot resistance. We offer four specific grades of black locust lumber.

Lumber can be sewn up thirty five feet in length. 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.