Crossroads Recycled Lumber Featured on Made in The Valley

Local TV station ABC30 Action News visits the Crossroads Recycled Lumber yard and talks with owner Marc Mandel.

CRL customers Nelson Treehouse & Supply featured in ABQ!

Check out our friends and customers at Nelson Treehouse and Supply (from Animal Planet’s Treehouse Masters), featured in the latest issue of American Builder’s Quarterly!

Saying Goodbye to Pete Seeger

This week we are remembering the incredible life and impact of folk musician Pete Seeger, who passed away on Monday at the age of 94.  Like many people, Crossroads’ founder Marc Mandel is a great admirer of Seeger, and the spirit of Pete’s music and work has been an inspiration for Crossroads Recycled Lumber and …

Brewery Reclaims Ocean Heritage in Bar Top

Basically brined in salt water, these beams are heavy and still carry some of the ocean’s bottom on their skins. Shells, sand, spots where decayed chain rotted away, colors of iron and bits of rocks defiantly cling to their sides. This, my friends, spells love. Running my hands along the rough surface, I could feel …

“Recycled wood: the truly green key to a sustainable built environment”

The Britsh news website, The Guardian mentioned our company in an excellent article on recycling lumber. According to journalist Leon Kaye’s research… Of the approximate 70m tons of wood sent to landfill annually, the US government estimates 30m tons of it could have been reused…. But while aluminium, glass, paper and plastic are often culled for recycling from construction …

Crossroads Featured in “The Deconstruction of Building 802” Video

Learn about the salvage process from start to finish! This is an excellent, informative mini-documentary about the deconstruction process, following the disassembly of the Port of Oakland, CA.  Thank you StopWaste.org, for all of the work you do to Stop Waste! Crossroads Recycled Lumber is featured from 3:25-5:33. “Our clients are pretty conscientious about where their material …

Historic Large-Dimension Ocean Salvage Timbers

Origins Some of the most intriguing lumber we have in stock was never used in construction, and yet still considered salvage timbers.  These beams are believed to have been loaded onto a Canadian ship in 1921 that wrecked off the Pacific Coast. In early 2010 as a beach near the wreck eroded, the shipwreck became …

Woody Biomass Guys Visit CRL

Last summer a couple guys came to the North Fork Millsite “investigating options for the processing of woody biomass from local forests.” They took a tour of our yard and learned about reclaimed lumber! Read their blog about the visit here!

Our Reclaimed Lumber Mill featured in Wood-Mizer Way Magazine!

Crossroads was featured in Wood-Mizer Way Magazine #70, in the article “Reclaiming the Past.” An excerpt from the story: “Forests fell and, sometimes, men died, in producing that lumber,” [Marc Mandel] says. “Workers invested their lives and skills manufacturing it. It seems wrong to waste the labor and energy of the past when we can, today, reuse the wood to …

The Many Faces of Reclaimed Wood

A very informative article about the sources and definitions of Reclaimed Wood, from BuildingGreen.com! The Many Faces of Reclaimed Wood – EBN: 20:12 – BuildingGreen.com www.buildinggreen.com The term “reclaimed wood” is used all the time, but it means different things in different settings.