Antique Heart Pine and Sinker Cypress Logs Rafted Downstream in 1800s

http://www.heartpine.com Rivers were the safest mode of transportation in the 1800s for antique heart pine and antique heart cypress (old-growth cypress) logs. Sometimes the densest and best logs sank on their way to the sawmill.

These logs are recovered and receive a new lease on life as Goodwin Heart Pine Company's antique heart pine and antique heart cypress wood flooring, millwork and stair parts.

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Learn more about our Antique Reclaimed Heart Pine here:
http://www.heartpine.com/products/antique_heartpine.shtml

Learn more about the history of the wood here:
http://www.heartpine.com/about/history_heartpine.shtml

Voice-over: "The economical way to transport heart pine and cypress logs was to fashion them into crude rafts and float them to sawmills along southern rivers. Sometimes they extended hundreds of years long. As luck would have it, these rafts would sometimes break apart. The logs would slip away to the river bottom where they were perfectly preserved from oxygen and light by the cool water."

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