theresa
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from Northern Maine ~ Proud new owner of Lola, a 1960 Shasta Airflyte and Pearl, a 1962 Mobile Scout
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Post by theresa on Mar 28, 2018 16:03:28 GMT -8
We have a healthy lumber market up here in the northern part of the state of Maine. It actually is the livelihood for most of the residents of my town. We have a veneer mill, Columbia Forest Products. They buy the hardwood logs, make the thin veneer sheets, then ship that to their mill in South Carolina where it's laminated to the plywood backer, then gets distributed from there. You can buy the Columbia Forest Products birch as a special order through the Home Depot, but generally you have to go in and explain this to the people at the desk because most of them don't even know. Last time I checked it was $52 or $56/sheet. I wish we could get that stuff here. I really wouldn't mind spending the money for GOOD QUALITY paneling. What's really cool is that a lot of the hardwood logs that Columbia Forest Products buys is from State Public Reserved Lands (I think you call it BLM). I actually work for the Dept. of Conservation that manages those public lands units. So there's a very realistic chance that some of the wood that went into making the birch panels for my camper could have come from the very state lands that my department manages.
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