Wood: Dead in the Water?

Clearstory

This Old House

History, Home & Garden, Leisure

4.9 • 726 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2019

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Believe it or not, there’s treasure lying at the bottom of some rivers. Known as deadhead logs, this old-growth wood hasn’t seen the light of day for hundreds of years, and it makes for some of the most beautiful furniture and floors around. Sherry Davis of the Maine Forest and Logging Museum explains how they got there, and logger John Claytor shares stories of how he finds them. This Old House master carpenter Norm Abram also tells us how to use deadhead logs in our homes, and why it’s the best stuff around. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.2	If there's one material that built this country, it's wood.
0:40.4	It was fundamental to building the first homes, from our framing and floors to shingles,
0:45.9	and it still is.
0:47.7	Wood built our economy.
0:50.1	It built our navy.
0:51.0	It even helped spark the revolutionaryary War and settle the West.
0:56.3	But all that old growth would, the very one that started our national obsession with lumber,
1:02.6	it's pretty much gone, right?
1:06.0	No, it's not, actually. It's just been hiding.
1:10.2	Every day that I go out hunting logs, just like a treasure hunt, it's, they don't make them no more.
1:15.6	And whenever something's hard to get or impossible to get, that's when everybody wants it.
1:19.6	Today, there's a new demand for this old growth lumber and a new place to find it.
1:25.6	From this old house, this and a new place to find it.
1:32.8	From this old house, this is Clear Story.
1:35.1	Your home in a new light.
1:36.5	I'm Kevin O'Connor.
1:42.3	Now, you might not have heard the term Sinkerlog or Deadhead before,
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