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Fiddling around with FIDS!

These are Fids. Used for Rope Splicing, these are particularly large ones (2-1/4" diameter by 21" long) for log boom and barge tow ropes. A fid is used to hold open rope knots and holes in canvas, and to separate the "lays" (or strands)...

Yellow Cedar Adventure Playground

Sometimes we get involved in some interesting projects! Check this Yellow Cedar Natural Adventure Playground, this is very cool, we supplied some timbers and flooring for this build to a good customer. Lucky kids!

Timber Wedges

These timber wedges are being used by a logistics company to secure large pipe from rolling. They are 6" tall and 12" on base, 45 degree cut, making the angle about 8" long. A squirt of polyurethane and a couple of nails will hold...

Fir Wedges for a Shipyard

These are 3" x 6" x 36" wedges from 3" heel to 1" toe with a chamfered edge. These are being used at a shipyard to support sheets of steel plate before welding.

Crawler Crane on Crane Mats

This selection of pictures explains well what Crane Mats are for......a stable base for very large Crawler Cranes. Maintaining a flat surface, widening the point loading, extending the base, keeping it all "flat" so the job can be accomplished quickly and safely. This also...

Biggest Timber Wedge in the World…..maybe

This giant timber wedge was 40" at the heel, 60" wide and 40' long. They feature fully engineered lifting hardware and a steel encapsulated toe. The special job was on a complex highway project where most of the lifts taking place were on 8%...

Contoured Dunnage for Dock Terminal

These contoured pipe skids were sent to a West Coast port to support some expensive coated 24" diameter pipe. Ropes around the special coated pipe keeps pipes separated when being transported. 

Big Long Sticks!

Check out these 2 long Douglas Fir Select Structural Timbers 12" x 12" x 40' long. To be used in a special trestle job! Call us for your special timbers!

Custom Sized Crane Mats

These custom sized mats which are 12" x 60" x 90" and 12" x 60" x 132" are being used on a trestle, they have to be perfectly sized in order to fit in a metal frame. We used a narrow dap so that...

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