Commercial carting on New York streets can yield the unexpected.
I was along Spring Street the other day and walked right up to this excellent example of roughsawn planking.
The identifying feature-- besides being rough-- is the apparent (huge) blade diameter carved right into the board. This particular plank is poplar.
Blades of this scale,
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in water driven sawmills,
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cut the lumber that built colonial America.
Today it’s just throw-away packing material.
I made this bench when I was a kid
from an antique slab of chestnut.
The sawmill blade marks were apparent back then, too.
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