Black Locust Wood Siding

Stock siding profiles include v groove shiplap flush and shiplap nickle gap.

Black locust wood siding.

Like black locust ipe is beautiful and durable wood that can last a lifetime. We offer four specific grades of black locust lumber. Unlike black locust it takes hundreds to even thousands of years for tropical hardwoods to reach a harvestable size. Black locust will naturally shade the building structure and with its light color and ability to reduce solar gain.

Only about 10 of all black locust logs found in this area end up producing veneer grade material. 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. Black locust is a safe environmentally friendly alternative to pressure treated and tropical hardwoods. The most durable and beautiful environmentally friendly siding choices available great for outdoor siding or for wood features such as soffits and facia.

Black locust is a very hard and strong wood competing with hickory carya genus as the strongest and stiffest domestic timber. Just a quick comment about your 14 bandsaw for milling black locust. 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.

The natural properties of black locust brise soleil rainscreens and siding make them a cooler and healthier alternative to other materials. Honestly i don t think you have any hope of doing that. Veneer this grade is very difficult to produce. Custom black locust lumber products for architects landscape designers and exclusive residences we manufacture and design custom black locust lumber products for sustainable architectural projects.

Black locust robinia flooring millwork not your ordinary flooring. A plentiful renewable resource that is well suited for all outdoor wood uses. But exploitative deforestation has driven tropical hardwood species such as ipe big leaf mahogany and teak toward the brink of extinction. I have been milling wood for 15 years using an old lumbermate bandmill.

Lumber can be sewn up thirty five feet in length. Decking urban green spaces proflow permeable pavers site furnishings and more. Although it shares a similar common name with honey locust the two aren t in the same genus robinia and gleditsia respectively. Black locust fence posts have been noted to last eighty years in some of america s toughest climates.

It will cut through just about any sort of wood some better and faster than others. Black locust tends to be.