Isaias Lopez and the new forklift
A new shipment of reclaimed heart pine came in to our New Orleans millshop yesterday from Lawrence, Massachusetts, where a textile plant was being disassembled. These heart pine beams are between 150 and 200 years old and are the heaviest part of the tree.
The beams have nice tight linear grain and good red color. From delivery the beams get unloaded on our newly acquired CombiLift. Previously, we could only unload one beam at a time and used many man hours to get into the millwork shop. Now we can unload six (6!) beams at a time.
The photo shows a very happy, Isaias Lopez, HCC’s supply room manager, unloading the reclaimed beams onto the new fork lift.
