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Where Your Wood Comes From: Here's How They Stuff Logs Into Shipping Containers
An inelegant and primitive process, but it works
Let's say you're a furniture designer in California working with English Ash. You pick your wood up at a supplier, where it sits neatly stacked in the yard. You know that prior to that, the wood came out of a mill. Backing up a step further, you know that before it arrived at the mill, the wood was trees that were cut down in England. But the step you probably never pictured was how the freshly-cut logs got to the mill.
When wood travels overseas, it needs to go into a shipping container. And the way it's loaded is almost amusingly primitive, have a look at this:
Here are some logs so large that only three of them will fit into a container:
This system below, described as "redneck ingenious," seems a little more efficient:
So, that's how they get them in. It's gotta be even worse getting them out.
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I have question, how much MBF of logs can fit in a 40ft HC container
that is one super duper huge log! www.joycontainers.com
You don't always want to mill before shipping because the individual consumer(builder, boat builder, furniture designer...etc) may want to specify the specifics of how the boards are cut from a specific log. But unloading is simpler. Could be done by a single human by hand if needed. Just a chain/cable winch and a solid anchor point are all that is needed.
Maybe they flip the container on its end and let the logs spill out?
Why not mill the wood before they ship it? It would be a far more efficient use of space and as a result would save both parties money in the transportation.