I’m playing with the idea of a US road trip from Canada (sadly, not to gather my Glowforge at a postal drop), so I started making a Google Map to plan things out. On a side note, I’d like to make a Google Map that bookmarks various mills and wood suppliers with links to forum threads with reviews from people who have done business with them, but that’s a thread for another day…
Has anyone got any experience they’d like to share dealing with http://www.hardwoodstoget.com/ in Bellingham WA? Their website is a complete disaster, but their product photos and inventory intrigues me. Most of their stuff looks too thick for a Glowforge to handle, admittedly.
Heh… last time I was in the US, I was camping site-to-site, and had some firewood I didn’t even think twice about. Some nice redwood, actually. Most times they don’t care unless you’re bringing up an entire flatbed of wood.
It is about 12 miles from my house, I go there only to buy small pieces of wood, maple, walnut, etc. sometimes you can find what you want and other times not.
Most of the time, if I really want good material, I go to Windsor Plywood.
And other times I get in my car a drive to Crosscut lumber in Seattle. (They lighten my wallet a lot when I go there.) Great place, then I head over go Rockler and Wood Craft.
not remotely the case in my experience, though i suppose it will be location dependent. firewood can be sketchy too, even within the US and Canada firewood is often subject to movement and export restrictions.
Oh I see. But looking at the enormous border between Canada and the USA (almost 9000 km) this is kind of funny. I mean, I could imagine that there are some trees that grow across the border, or are they not allowed to cross borders ?
This is not the same situation like for example the British Islands where you have to put your dog in quarantine, before you are allowed to visit, because of rabies. This makes sense, I guess, because it is an island…
well i mean, animal border control exists, too. as alluded to above, sometimes the restrictions are even on a county level. it’s true that the two countries share a border but i dunno if you’ve noticed that trees tend to move pretty slowly on their own…
There are invasive insect species, like the Emerald Ash Borer (and several others), that can decimate our tree populations. When not transported, they keep to pretty small areas and don’t move far or fast. When transported, they quickly repopulate and infect new areas.
and remember, the US and canada are very large countries. you could easily drive 5000 miles from the tip of florida to the yukon. species of wood from florida and the yukon could house very different species of pests.
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