We harvest Fallen trees from our Forest to build great stuff
It all started during the dreaded pandemic. Marieke bought Tom a book on building arch top guitars and challenged Tom to take one of our fallen trees from the bush lot and see if he could build it. So we purchased an Alaskan Mill (a set up to use your chain saw to cut the tree into boards), and the arch top project was put into action. Days of cutting boards progressed to finishing boards and hand carving the arch top. Various pieces of the puzzle started to fit in place and one day the guitar was born and ready to play.
Like all good things if the small mill was good we figured a big mill that would allow us to expand the size of the boards would be even better. Suddenly we were shopping for a Canadian made saw mill and we have been hooked ever since.
We now take Maple, Cherry, Ash and Elm trees that have fallen down in our forest and mill them into wood for the shop. The off cuts are used to heat the shop, clinic and our house and The saw dust from the mill and shop are used in the stalls of the horses for bedding. We feel pretty good about the full use of these trees and the environmental benefit using local wood for all our projects.
