Residents take pride in their timber piles, debate best techniques News is obsessed with the flashy questions: “Is God Dead?” “Who Killed Kennedy?” “What is a Kardashian?” Yet for years, a quieter ...

An error has occurred. Please try again. With a The Portland Press Herald subscription, you can gift 5 articles each month. It looks like you do not have any active ...

Pickups like the GMC Sierra 1500 are designed for versatility, particularly when it comes to hauling cargo. But as the old saying goes, just because you can, doesn’t mean you should. A recent viral ...

A stack of firewood is so much more than just a pile of logs. It’s a rustic manifestation of hard work completed, a symbol of coziness to come. Changing shape with the seasons, it embodies both the ...

Storing your unused lumber well is vital if you want to prevent it from warping and bowing. The straighter your lumber is, the less you'll have to plane or trim off when it's time to use it. Damaged ...

A few weeks ago my neighbor and I were talking firewood. Specifically, we were talking about whether to stack with the bark up or the bark down. He’s a rugged, quiet, mid-western Norwegian type. “Well ...

’Tis the season of cooped-up kids. Snow days, lice epidemics, and absurdly long school vacations—there are many different causes of cabin fever. Never find yourself sub-caffeinated and un-showered in ...

Tombigbee Lumber Company, a hardwood sawmill in Fulton, Miss., that produces green lumber, is going through a few changes. "Right now, we produce about 8 million board feed a year," says the sawmill's ...

Salvaging dead or dying trees, and milling the logs into lumber is a great experience. It is part of the powerful connection I feel with the land, and I am always delighted to share it with my friends ...

W. Scott Trimble has had enough of being known as “the boardwalk guy,” and he’s a little tired of handling so much wood. (Lumber is heavy! Then there are the splinters and smashed thumbs to consider.) ...