Trees To Make Hardwood Floors

In this particular project wood logs are sliced 1 thick and are being positioned to create the most beautiful natural hardwood floor i ve ever seen.

Trees to make hardwood floors.

Most saw mills. How to make a wood floor from raw wood. Russian olive wood is probably the most distinctive being almost chocolate colored it is a very beautiful wood. This room was only 250 sq ft.

There are a few trees here and there that have fallen due to storms age etc. Take the hardwood tree to the saw mill to have them cut down into rough planks. This needs to be cut to 1 1 8 inch thick. Species include some oak varieties hickory cherry walnut poplar and a number of others.

More than half of hardwood harvested domestically is oak that grows from new england to the midwest. I decided to use ash for the floor because it s lighter color. Also imports quite a bit of exotic hardwood like mahogany rosewood teak and wenge which typically grow in more tropical regions like brazil and indonesia. Cordwood construction cordwood construction is a technique dating back many years where the builders use fallen trees or logs cut from logged trees.

There are three common hardwood trees in northeast montana they are the ash the siberian elm and the russian olive. After building the sawmill i decided to make some ash flooring for my house. Send them through the gang saw and have them ripped a full half inch wider than the size flooring you want. Would it be possible to have someone make wood flooring from some of these trees.

A perfect project for this idea is to make a hardwood floor with wood from locally grown trees.