Let it snow...

About 15 minutes ago, I looked up from the keyboard and saw a curtain of white-ish slushy stuff falling from the sky. I just came from the Adirondacks where I had a stellar Thanksgiving holiday, and even up there, the only places with snow were the high peaks, like Lake Placid, where there's a foot of the white stuff at the summit. So seeing the snow falling here set in motion a sudden rush of thoughts....

1. Oh crap, we need to get the Christmas decorations out of the attic.
2. I have that much shopping left before Christmas?
3. I have HOW many cookies to bake?!
4. I should have painted the dining room "one of those days" that I spent on the front porch in the rocking chair this summer. Wait - did I even have "one of those days"?
5. 2010 is a month away - time to get those projects done, so I have time for "one of those days" NEXT year!

We've got several floors available for quick turnarounds, and if you don't want it delivered until January, you can still reserve your floor now and we'll hold it for you until the new year. As you're packing up the holiday decorations, you can spruce up the place and get the new year started right! After all, if its snowy outside, and you're not up for braving the cold, nothing warms the body like some installing a floor.

Now that I finish this up, it seems that the snow has melted away - typical of Upstate NY this time of year. But with this being the latest "first accumulating snowfall" in many many years, it is sort of a welcome sight to see. That is, unless you work outside in our yard.

Be safe, stay in touch.

- Jered

I'm going......Are you?

Next week, I am heading to Arizona to show off our stuff at Greenbuild 2009. Of course, while we have our Indian Summer here in NY, it wil be toasty warm there, or so I hope!

Stop by booth 5006 and chat with Martin and I - We'll have some new materials there to show off, including our Engineered Settlers' Plank Oak, and our newest line, Black & Tan Oak - Way cool stuff.

Drop me a line and let me know if we'll see you - All the cool people will be there, and if you're reading this then you certainly fall into that category.

Stay in touch!

- Jered

The Winds of Change

President Theodore Roosevelt once said, "Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones."

Pioneer Millworks has done that consistently for years. Starting out as a small supplier to the timberframe industry, we've grown into one of the largest reclaimed wood companies in the world. We've moved beyond just timbers though, producing flooring, millwork, paneling, and most recently, the most eco-friendly engineered wood flooring on the market. Work with us, and you have 9 acres of yard with over 1 million board feet of stock, 45,000 sf of shop under roof, and more than 30 of the most dedicated craftspeople in the industry on your team.

It goes without saying then, that we know a thing or two about reclaimed wood. It is no wonder that Lumus Construction came to us to provide the timbers for the windmill at Roosevelt's Sagamore Hill home at Oyster Bay, NY.


The original structure was built in 1885 to pump water to a holding tank on the home's 3rd floor. After nearly 100 years, the windmill was replaced with a pressure treated structure in the 70's. The demise of this material after 30 years is living proof that many modern chemical treatments can't stand the test of time the way a natural product such as our Heart Pine does.

Once complete, we'll post some photos here to show off the beautiful materials, which were reclaimed from the US Leather Company in Elizabeth, NJ. It is some of the nicest looking timber we've seen in ten years - and we can't think of a better place for it to stand for another hundred.

Thanks for checking in - stay in touch.