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Heavy Saddle Blocks for 14′ diameter pipe!

These Large Pipe Saddles are 16" high x 8" wide x 40" long. They are custom sized to fit a 160" diameter pipe (80" radius). The timber blocks will be bolted to steel plates which will sit on the truck. These pipes will be...

Contoured Dunnage AKA Pipe Saddles

There is a lot of steel pipe moving around Western Canada these days. To carry it safely on a truck or a rail car we make pipe saddles, or pipe dunnage or contoured dunnage. We can supply 24"-72" diameter, and in special cases even...

Flat Deck Truck Decking

We often supply Douglas Fir timbers for truck decking. Often we don't get to see how the installation went. In this case the Customer stopped by to show us how it worked out. You can't see it to well, but under the anti-slip metal...

Yellow Cedar Timber Playground

This currently muddy mess is a new playground being built with specialty Yellow Cedar timbers that we supplied. It will be the latest and greatest playground with natural materials, no pressure treated timber. It will include ramps and climbing walls and other structures for...

Pipe saddles for 72″ Diameter Pipe

These large diameter scoops are for carrying large section piles on a barge where the danger was that they could roll. The scoops makes a nice stable "saddle" for the pile to sit in. Call us for any type of pipe saddles

Timber Blocking

These Douglas Fir #1 and btr blocks are going to be creosote treated and used by the railways. 8" x 12" x 27" complete with 2 holes 2" diameter. They are a spacer block. You think it, we can usually make it!

Landscape Sign Posts

We supplied these Landscape Posts for trail markers, they are 12" x 12" with a teepee top, they were treated, set in the ground and signage was added to each side. They established boundaries and trails. Kind of an interesting job! If we had...

Hardwood Jack Blocks with handles

These hardwood jack pads are built for companies repairing rail cars. The jack pad is placed between the rail car (steel) and the jack stand (steel) to stop it from sliding. These ones feature a user friendly "luggage" handle set into the end. 

Contoured Dunnage AKA Pipe Saddles

This 8" x 8" x 102" contoured pipe dunnage is for special coated pipe, the carpet won't abrade the coating while traveling on the truck. This dunnage is for 30" diameter pipe 3 across on the truck. We plan for a 1" space between...

Timber Tables!

We had a customer that requested 24" wide x 24" wide x 18" tall timber tables. We selected some very large timbers of Hemlock. These timbers have been air drying for 3 years! 20 tables coming up! Nice and square and bandsawn cut all...

Industrial Timber Furniture

And now for something completely different....Industrial Timber Furniture! We have an enterprising customer who decided to make some heavy timber furniture for his sun deck. This looks awesome! Made from 8" x 8" Western Hemlock timbers, bandsawn to 7-3/4" x 7-3/4" square. And then...

Giant Pipe Saddles

These giant Pipe Saddles are supporting 10' diameter piling pipes which are secured on a barge before installation. The cut out in the dunnage stops the pipe from rolling around and causing damage.....or rolling off the barge. If you can draw it we can...

Nice Triangle!

this nice Hemlock triangle is for a mall sign believe it or not! It is the base of the sign, the 8' high sign made from chloroplast is folded into a triangle and slipped down over the heavy base. No windstorm will knock this...

Shipyard Wedges

These Douglas Fir wedges are being used to support a ship being built in Vancouver. The "softer" wood wedges are used to "define" and follow the exact shape of the hull. Steel wedges could mar the finish or crease the steel. The particular wedges...

Douglas Fir Truck Decking

We have several customers that need specialized truck decking. Generally speaking these are low-beds for transporting large excavators and dozers. The decks generally get abraded away as the machinery is heavy and the growlers (tracks) scrape the trailer deck.

Specialized Timbers with angle cuts

These special angle cut timbers are being used in a 1.1 kilometer tunnel project in BC.  The timbers start with a base of 8" x 8" x 12' long Hem/Fir timbers angle cut to just the right length. The tunnel is roughly 25 feet...

Big Pipe! Big Dunnage!

These large diameter pipes are being moved with help from our custom sized contoured dunnage blocks. This is 9' diameter pipe and we built a sawn block and attached it to the 102"  6" x 6" base for safe truck transport.

Wheel Chocks!

Don't let your world roll downhill! We manufacture Wheel Chocks. These are simple plywood chocks with a rope handle.

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Timber Wedge – Large! double compound slope

These unusual wedges are for a Ship Yard, where they required a Timber wedge with two different slopes. They had to be strong to carry the weight of large machinery.  These wedges are about 20" tall x 48" wide x 11' long and are...

Hardwood Blocking….or a wood suitcase!

Check out these 4" x 16" x 32" Pacific Coast Maple Hardwood Jack Blocks. Complete with suitcase handles (but stronger). These will be used in a Rail Car shop where they do repair work. The Jack Blocks go between the steel jacks and the...

Ship Blocking…..a small Ship anyway!

These 12" x 12" x 24" Heavy Douglas Fir blocks are holding up a sweet 30' Grady White Sportfisher so it can receive bottom paint. This is a typical usage for our heavy blocks from 30' boats to 500' ships. Give us a call...

Big Pipe Skids!

These big pipe skids are 12" x 12" x 10' long and include a 6" deep cutout exactly the right size to hold a variety of large pipe/piles/tanks from 72" diameter to 108" diameter, using wooden wedges to finalize the size.  These particular wedges...

Truck Decking – Perfect Fit!

Customer purchased exact size Douglas Fir #1 and btr Structural timbers to fit his Low Bed trailer. The finished product looks good. The timbers will shrink over time  (especially in summer) but with the initial exact sizing the gaps will be small.

Heavy Contoured Pipe Saddles

These contoured dunnage (Pipe Saddles) are 10" x 10" and feature a "scoop" for 48" outside diameter steel pipe. The key point when making this dunnage is a smooth saw cut and consistent size so the pipes are held "gently" and securely. These saddles...

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