My buddy wants to build some planters and benches for his deck. He has Norm's plans:
I have no comparison but that seems a tad bit expensive.
Any other options other than Cedar? This will be outside year round and will be exposed to salt air from the bay.
On 4/20/2011 12:13 PM, Limp Arbor wrote: ...
If'en you think cedar's pricey, then no... :)
Try cypress or Doug fir... :)
This was in yesterday's paper. I haven't been there yet, but I assume they'd give you a quote over the phone.
Egg Harbor City is about an hour's ride from Philly. Look for it on Rt. 30, but if you take the ride, use the Expressway as far into Jersey as you can and then head North to EHC. Rt. 30 by itself can be a slow ride.
Ben Fogletto New Jersey Audubon Society Director of Conservation Troy Ettel, left, and state Agriculture Department Secretary Douglas Fisher talk with Schairer Bros. Saw Mill owner Paul Schairer on Tuesday in Egg Harbor City. Fisher kicked off a line of products promoting sustainably harvested wood from New Jersey. The 'Made with Jersey Grown Wood' label will first appear on birdhouses made from wood cut at Schairer Bros.
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20, 2011. By LEE PROCIDA Staff Writer | EGG HARBOR CITY - "Jersey Fresh" as a food label has become an easily recognizable way to find high-quality, locally grown produce in the Garden State. Now, a new effort announced Tuesday aims to attract people to locally harvested wood products. The "Made with Jersey Grown Wood" stamp will first be emblazoned on birdhouses and birdfeeders crafted from Atlantic white cedar trees grown in Atlantic County and cut by the Schairer Bros. Saw Mill on Bremen Avenue. The goal is to promote the state's dwindling saw mills as well as the practice of sustainable tree harvesting through an easily identifiable logo. "The opportunities are limitless," said state Agriculture Secretary Douglas Fisher, whose department teamed with the New Jersey Audubon Society for the project. "I think (people will) point with pride and say, =91Yep, got it over here in Atlantic County.'" Hundreds of saw mills operated throughout New Jersey in the 20th century, but that number is down to about 26, and an even smaller number harvests their own wood and operate full time, according to the state Department of Environmental Protection. The Schairer family has been doing all that for more than 70 years. "We do it because it's what our family does," said co-owner Paul Schairer, 45, the third generation to take up the craft. The family mill harvests wood from about 400 acres in Egg Harbor City and Galloway and Hamilton townships, cutting about three to five acres a year in the cedar swamps it owns and then letting it regenerate to be cut again decades later. The company normally sells the wood for a variety of uses, such as fencing, siding, shingles and lumber. It also has provided channel markers for the waterways on the New Jersey coast, and Storybook Land has recently asked about using the wood for a new ride at its Egg Harbor Township theme park. The birdhouses that bear the new "Jersey Grown" label not only represent a new way to expand the mill's product line and the state's program, but also the environmental community's backing of the plan, since the state Audubon Society drove its creation. Troy Ettel, the society's director of conservation and stewardship, said the loss of New Jersey's saw mill market has created problems such as increased threat of wildfire in forested communities. And there is always the larger ecological goal of reducing the output of carbon by getting products from a closer source rather than having them shipped from other locales. "When the preservation of natural resources makes economic and ecological sense, our job is a lot easier," Ettel said. "Without the knowledge and experience of the people who live and work on the land, true, meaningful and sustainable conservation is impossible." The birdhouse project is actually an extension of the society's product line called S.A.V.E. - Support Agricultural Viability and the Environment - that started with "Jersey Grown" sunflower birdseed in 2008. Ettel said the birdhouses will first be for sale at the society's centers in Cape May County and Mount Holly, Burlington County, as well as Wild Birds Unlimited stores in Toms River, Cherry Hill and Washington Township, Gloucester County. What will next bear the "Made with Jersey Grown Wood" label remains to be seen. But even with the dramatic decline in saw mills, there remain many forest managers who could potentially contribute to the effort. Last year, the state counted more than 300 registered tree farms - private lands where trees are grown as a crop - managing 92,000 acres, the DEP said. The state also has 1,040 participants managing 115,000 acres through its Forest Stewardship Program, a federally funded program that encourages land owners to manage forests for both commodities and ecological benefits. But it is not an easy business to be in, Schairer said, as wood shipped here from the Pacific Northwest or imported from countries such as China and Russia costs less because of less-protective regulations. The Schairer mill does most of its sales locally. But as the local economy has done poorly, so has its business, since people have not been looking to build or fix their homes - no decks, no new fences, no additions. "These last few years have been brutal," he said. Schairer said his longtime customers are also dying off, and new residents have little idea they can even get locally grown wood nearby, instead going to principal wood importers such as Home Depot and Lowe's. He hopes the new "Jersey Grown" label will do something to change that. "We're putting this on everything," he said of the stamp. Contact Lee Procida: 609-457-8707 snipped-for-privacy@pressofac.com
Your best bet is to look in the Yellow Pages under "lumber", "decking", and "sawmills" and call around--most lumber yards other than the BORGs don't have a web presence.
So, what warning signs are posted with these products? Does Jersey have anything like California's Prop 65 warning?
CAUTION: Made with toxic Jersey wood/air. Do not store indoors!
Do they still have those? I haven't seen one in *years*.
Simply go to any cabinet shop and ask them where they buy their lumber. nuff said.
Theres Boards and Beams sawmill and Downes and Reader, supplier of hard and soft woods.
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