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New heart pine shipment in New Orleans!

Nairne — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:40:41 +0000

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.

Another New Heart Pine Beam Shipment!

Bartell — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:45:35 +0000

This morning we are anxiously awaiting a new shipment of Long Leaf Heart Pine beams from a 19^th century textile factory in Lawrence, Massachusetts that is being torn down.

The warehouse in Mass. being torn down

I always keep my fingers crossed at this time because every shipment is unique and there are several variables that will determine if we’ve made a profitable purchase that will yield high quality flooring, stairway components, and cabinet stock, with the least amount of waste, for our New Orleans millwork projects.

Color: Should be red versus yellow or white
Density: Should have tight growth rings, 15-25+ rings per inch which indicates the beams were cut from old growth trees.
Checking: How many cracks or splits are in the beams?
Nails, Bolts & Spikes: All metal must be removed from the beams before milling can begin to protect our equipment as well as our team members. The more nails etc… in the beams, the more time, labor, and cost required to remove them. We remove any visible nails and then use hand held metal detectors to find any subsurface metal.

We work with several different demolition companies from Alabama to Maine but recently most of our heart pine is coming from Massachusetts. Heart Pine doesn’t grow that far north, but in the 1800s, during the later part of the Industrial Revolution, the Mid Atlantic and the South Eastern States supplied the timber to build the Northern factories. Our suppliers will send us photos and inventory list of their current projects via email and then we make a decision based on what we can deduce from the photos and our past experience with the individual seller. Hopefully we have made the right choice with this load of Long Leaf Heart Pine.

The heart pine beams prior to shipment down to New Orleans

Tools used to remove metal from the heart pine beams

Bartell Tapp using a metal detector on the new shipment of heart pine

CCM’s Heart Pine Flooring Reclaimed!

dlglade — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 19:37:43 +0000

Remember that incredible shipment of reclaimed heart pine that we received recently? Well, we have completed the process and have produced some beautiful heart pine flooring. Take a look! Central City Millworks is continually receiving new shipments of reclaimed heart pine at our New Orleans mill shop. Contact us for all of your wood flooring needs.

Reclaimed heart pine flooring milled in our New Orleans millshop

Heart pine flooring ready for installation

Central City Millworks Photo Gallery – Shop

admin — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:47:45 +0000

One of the few C&C routers in New Orleans is at CCM

Many choices of Antique Heart Pine in CCM warehouse

Central City Millworks mills heart pine in our shop

New Shipment of Reclaimed Heart Pine Arrives

Don — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:41:49 +0000

: Inspector Blondie approves of the beautiful new heart pine shipment

Last week a new shipment of heart pine arrived from Maryland. This gorgeous reclaimed heart pine was originally cut in the early 1900’s from old growth pine forests in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama and then used to build manufacturing plants in the New England area.

Many of these old plants have been dismantled for salvage, and that’s how this old heart pine got shipped back home. At both Hal Collums Construction and Central City Millworks we use it to make cabinetry and flooring.