Black Locust Wood Siding

Black locust robinia flooring millwork not your ordinary flooring.

Black locust wood siding.

The most durable and beautiful environmentally friendly siding choices available great for outdoor siding or for wood features such as soffits and facia. We offer four specific grades of black locust lumber. It will cut through just about any sort of wood some better and faster than others. Like black locust ipe is beautiful and durable wood that can last a lifetime.

Black locust will naturally shade the building structure and with its light color and ability to reduce solar gain. Black locust is a very hard and strong wood competing with hickory carya genus as the strongest and stiffest domestic timber. Black locust is a safe environmentally friendly alternative to pressure treated and tropical hardwoods. A plentiful renewable resource that is well suited for all outdoor wood uses.

Veneer this grade is very difficult to produce. Only about 10 of all black locust logs found in this area end up producing veneer grade material. But with more stability and rot resistance. The natural properties of black locust brise soleil rainscreens and siding make them a cooler and healthier alternative to other materials.

In the past we have supplied black locust as large 12 x12 x18 and 6 x6 x26. Rock hard and ready for your mud room kitchen office show room space or other high traffic high impact areas our black locust flooring is available in a select grade pictured at left and below and a rustic grade. Just a quick comment about your 14 bandsaw for milling black locust. Black locust robinia pseudoacacia is america s most versatile hardwood.

Lumber can be sewn up thirty five feet in length. Stock siding profiles include v groove shiplap flush and shiplap nickle gap. Although it shares a similar common name with honey locust the two aren t in the same genus robinia and gleditsia respectively. We have products for organic agriculture orchard posts hops poles and fencing building and construction decking flooring siding custom milled parts fascia bench parts furniture as well as kiln dried nhla graded lumber in 4 4 5 4 6 4 and 8 4.

Prices assume random length and exclude shipping. Black locust tends to be. Unlike black locust it takes hundreds to even thousands of years for tropical hardwoods to reach a harvestable size. Black locust fence posts have been noted to last eighty years in some of america s toughest climates.

But exploitative deforestation has driven tropical hardwood species such as ipe big leaf mahogany and teak toward the brink of extinction. Honestly i don t think you have any hope of doing that.