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Trestlewood Picklewood "Exterior Stave" Flooring
Item #:
TPICKES
Douglas Fir | Unfinished Solid | Reclaimed
Striking color variation and clear straight grain make Trestlewood's Douglas Fir Picklewood T&G Flooring a popular distressed floor. The Exterior Stave flooring has more noticeable color variation than the standard Picklewood flooring, which tends to show more subtle variations of light and dark colors.
Beginning in the mid 1800s, dozens of food preparation companies produced pickles, vinegar and other food products in large wooden vats. Now vat staves produce Picklewood flooring with its signature intermixing of light and dark colors. Vat bottoms (and thicker staves) result in flooring with rich colors but more subtle color variations.
Standard Douglas Fir Picklewood flooring widths are 3" to 5" (random.)
Picklewood bottom floors tend to be somewhat wider.
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Utah's Great Salt Lake is the address of the historic Lucin Cutoff Railroad Trestle and
its tens of millions of board feet of Douglas Fir timbers and piling
and Redwood decking. Of course, the bulk of those rail lines
were built during the mining and lumber booms at the beginning of the
century, and are now sitting derelict. Thanks to the efforts of Trestlewood Lumber, the wood of the trestle is being
reclaimed and reused.
Now you can have a piece of that history in
your home. Trestlewood carefully tear down trestles and warehouses which have
passed their safe lifetime. Then, they re-mill the lumber into
beautiful floors and roof beams full of character. They offer white and
yellow pine and fir timber, and the colors of the wood are the unique
product of a hundred years of summer heat, soaking in saltwater, or
being stained by iron nails -- truly unmatched in new wood.
From spike holes in resawn timbers to
the unique coloring of flooring produced from "pickled" piling, the
wood reclaimed from the trestle bears the stamp of the Great Salt Lake.
This wood is now as much a product of the Great Salt Lake as it is of
the forests from which it was originally cut.