of our Pin Oak coffee table. He was just jonesing to climb right on top of it.
Norway Maple
This beautiful Norway Maple, which was in venerable Van Cortlandt Park, was taken down yesterday due to rot. We look forward to milling, drying and the possibility of recycling it into something pretty cool.
A Proliferation of Mushrooms, Part II
Continuing our trek through the mushroom wonderland. We don't know anything about mushrooms. If you can identify any or all, please comment below. Thanks and enjoy!
A Proliferation of Mushrooms, Part I
At the yard this morning, JT came across a riot of mushrooms of all shapes, sizes and colors. Check them out...
No Rest For the Weary or the Sawyer
We try to mill all year round - not easy but always satisfying. Here are just a few of our trees waiting to be made into something lovely for you to enjoy.
Live Edge Sycamore Table
Delivered today this gorgeous, live edge Sycamore table which we gray-washed to give it a weathered look. Looks great in its new home. Congrats Karen and Martin!
Gray-washed Sycamore table
A Troop of Trees
Just a few of the specimens currently at the mill yard. The Sugar Maple has more than one variety of mushrooms chillin' on it.
Sugar Maple and friends
Congratulations!
To Alaina and Geoff who just got hitched on Sunday. This lovely couple commissioned a rustic table and bench from us which we delivered today - along with the bench they're sitting on. A wedding gift from NYCitySlab.
Rustic, ebony-stained table and bench
The happy couple
The Process Begins
This morning a Pine tree and a Crabapple tree that were at Barnard College (see our 11/4/15 post) came down. These will be transported to our yard where they will be milled and dried. We look forward to creating something beautiful for Barnard!
A Real Gem
We can upon this 30 ft. Oak tree while driving to our yard and saw some walnut stumps on the side of the road. We noticed that some trees had orange tape around them which means that they needed to come down for safety issues, i.e, power line obstruction. This particular Oak was located 1/2 mile from our yard and bordering the property line of local radio station WFAS 94.3. It was too good to pass up so we came back the next day. By then it was 10' shorter but no less impressive at 20' long 31"-37" wide.
The pile of walnut that got my attention.
After two loads it's all in the yard.
Lots of turning blanks
Big Oak
At Your Service
Late night delivery. The Button sign needed a little tweaking and they needed it back quickly. We fixed it and made a late night delivery to their HQ in downtown NY.
Your mission, Mr. Phelps...
should you decide to accept it, is to figure out how to get this huge Oak tree from the spot where it was felled to your mill yard less than a mile away. A day in the life of BLJ & Co.
20'x31-37" pin oak log on the property of 94.3 wfas and pretty good music
Too heavy!
Store Front, You Say?
Brooklyn Flea Indoor Market, our weekend home for the next six months. Come see us at Industry City in Sunset Park. Saturdays and Sundays 10:00am to 6:00pm.
Custom, laser cut logo signage
Our wood menagerie and all the things we consider cool, vintage brass blade fans, trees from parks and wood from buildings in NYC that have survived the Civil War, World War I, World War II, the Brooklyn Dodgers leaving, Hurricane Diane in '55, the NYC blackouts of '65, '77 and '03 but could not survive the construction boom of 2015. We turn these into furniture that you can now own and have a piece of NYC history in your home, office or restaurant.
Master of all he surveys..
We've been extremely busy at the mill yard lately - reorganizing and readying for more milling.
Bring it on!
26 Bistro Tables
Once again we have the privilege of teaming up with Spigolo on the UES. The best part about this is we are using the wood from 1538-1556 2nd Ave., only three blocks away. Reclaiming and Reusing.
26 white pine tables from 1538-1556 2nd Ave., which are being demolished to make way for a luxury building.
Tables are glued, cut, epoxied and ready for sanding, clear spray and then delivery.
#stacks
Barnard College
We have the pleasure of working with another NYC landmark and we will be recycling the trees that are being removed.
Pine tree
Once removed we mill dry and build.
Prospect Park Bench
We were commissioned to build a bench for the park from a black locust log.
There it Lies
Loading the Bench
Time to hit the road
Walnut butterflies
All the way through
Walnut and Ash always a great pair
Non-stop Milling
Spalted Sugar Maple
More Spalted Maple
15' tulip x30" wide
Holla elm logs great coffee tables
14' Tulip slabs 29" wide
ash logs 3 of 6 milled
Two Tulip logs
Slabs
Stumps and more stumps
Walnut
Oak
