T&G Pine Flooring

Find t&g pine flooring online from Ashton Lewis Lumber Co.. The physical plant occupies 75 acres in the rural Gates County, about 60 miles southwest of the port of Norfolk, Virginia. The sawmill is quite modern, utilizing state of the art scanning and computer optimization at nearly every machine center. Logs are separated for product mix, inventoried on a concrete yard then mechanically debarked and dispatched to either of two sawing lines. A scanning carriage and single band mill breaks down larger logs while a unique and versatile end-dogging machine processes smaller logs through twin bandsaws. Further reduction occurs down stream as lines merge to a twin horizontal resaw and then are edged with either of two multiple saw scanning optimized edgers.

Tongue and Groove Flooring

T&G pine flooring is available online.All sawn lumber is optimized for end trimming and sorted for drying by thickness, length, width, and grade in a computerized 26 bay drop bin sorter. All lumber is mechanically stacked and dried in one of seven computer controlled low temperature steam dry kilns. All steam for this segment of the operation is produced by a gasification type wood waste boiler plant. Lumber is cooled in covered areas and routed to a very versatile finish mill. Two high-speed pattern planers finish most domestic sales lumber and a German 8 head Weinig Moulder produces architectural profiles. Simultaneously, rough kiln dried lumber can be graded on a parallel system. All lumber is graded in air-conditioned, constant lighted room and passes to a computerized separator and package maker. Finish lumber can be shrink wrapped for consumer packages, offering an attractive presentation for mixed item truckloads.