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| When a Pan-Abode home is
ready for shipment it is the final step in a long
process which begins deep in the coastal forests of British Columbia. |
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| The production begins
with the Cedar trees that we cut and sort at one of our
many logging sites in BC. A logging operation is a very
complicated and expensive operation to maintain. We
must establish a camp, complete with
accommodations to sustain teams of loggers for
several months of the year. Each team of loggers
is transported to our logging site at Woods
Lagoon by seaplane, as there is no other way to
access our site. Each team of 12 loggers stays
in the forest for 1 month followed by a month rest while another team takes their place. We
provide a camp for them complete with accommodations for
sleeping, eating and recreation. The work is very hard
and extremely dangerous. |
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After the Cedar trees
are cut, they are transported by Helicopter to a
sorting
area where the logs are carefully graded for quality.
The Cedar logs are then brought by truck to the
shoreline of the Pacific Ocean where they are secured
together in large booms (large groupings of logs secured
by steel cables) and towed by boat from our logging site
at Cougar Inlet to the Fraser River and onward to our
primary cutting mill called Mill and Timber
Products. It is there
that the logs are lifted out of the river and into our
mill, where we again sort the logs for quality and then
cut the timbers that will later become the famous
Pan-Abode Western Red Cedar timbers used in the
manufacture of our fine quality homes. |
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Once the logs are cut
into our 4" x 6" timbers at Mill and Timber, they are then
transported by truck to our remanufacturing mill
at Pan-Abode International Ltd. When we
receive the timbers they are placed in
large lifts (piles of lumber) and
allowed to dry before they can be
further processed. Once the timbers have
dried sufficiently, they are then
carefully sorted over a green chain
(automated belt driven sorting and
stacking line). Only the very best grade
of Western Red Cedar timber are acceptable for our
Pan-Abode homes. We use a very premium Select Tight
Knot, 2-face, free of heart center grade of cedar for
our homes. |
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| When the cedar has dried
to a sufficient level, we then profile selected timbers
into our unique 4" x 6" double tongue and groove timbers.
Each timber is carefully inspected for quality before it
is sent to our cutting and notching operation. When the
computer generated precision cutting machines have both
cut and notched each timber, they are then carefully
wrapped and marked for shipment with our home packages
to customers all over the world. |
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