 About Antique River Logs™ and River-Reclaimed™ Flooring
Gifts from the Past
We honor the might, the spirit and the bounty of the American rivers. We acknowledge the lumbermen and river rafters who harvested, labored and sacrificed - often with their lives - to bring these original elder trees to the water's edge to await the rains. We are mindful of the men who navigated high, dangerous waters on the journey down river to sawmills, the nights, weeks and often months away from loved ones. We appreciate the mules and oxen that hauled these mammoth logs. We understand the labor of the bucksaw, often called the misery whip, requiring synchronistic timing and work like most of us have never known.
Consider how many of today's antiques were crafted from logs that journeyed untold miles down an American river. We approach this history with admiration and reverence.
For more information see the Antique River Logs site.
Today's Treasures
Like the aging of fine wine, these timbers from old growth virgin forests, now emerge from the river as one of a kind treasures. Just as a great vineyard knows that the passing of time is essential to the wine's quality and value, so the river's impact on these logs over the last two centuries has preserved the wood and created a finite resource with unique color and mineralization. Our logs are truly "one of a kind".
We now complete the journey along side the loggers and rafters of the past to deliver heirloom quality limited old growth wood flooring and lumber to your home and business.
We locate, dive, and retrieve lost but not forgotten treasure, and join with woodworkers, architects, craftsmen and artists to celebrate a finite opportunity and resurrect the magnificence of each rescued log.
Working Within Our Environment
Our goal is to leave no trace and do no harm to the rivers, which offer up these valuable natural resources. We are committed to researching and protecting the natural aquatic life forms. Our company actively participates with fish and game officials to understand and preserve the natural habitat. We value relationships with other aware stewards of the forest as business associates.
We do not forget that we are participating in the completion of a great harvest which began over 200 years ago. We work with diligence to bring this extraordinary wood to you with the most eco-friendly methods, and acknowledge the long, backbreaking days of labor already spent by our ancestors.
Our business philosophy places people over things, relationship over profit, commitment over convenience, character over personal gain, and the long view over the immediate.
Our River-Reclaimed logs are antiques that have been resting on the bottom of the Ohio River for 100 - 200 years.
These logs are 100% recycled from old-growth timbers that were cut down 100-200 years ago. Tens of thousands of these logs were floated on the Ohio to a sawmill. Along the way, a few of these logs sunk to the bottom of the River.
For more information see the Antique River Logs site.
The finest quarter-sawn engineered flooring available anywhere.
Antique River Logs and River-Reclaimed Flooring are trademarks of Antique River Logs
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