Located in Northwest Florida, ten miles south of I-10 in Ponce de Leon. Bruner Lumber Company has specialized in River Recovered Sinker Cypress and Sinker Pine for over 35 years. Today we're one of Northwest Florida and Southern Alabama's leading Reclaimed Cypress and Pine suppliers, providing beautiful custom lumber products and services to our customers across the U.S.
Finding recovered timber that was harvested hundreds of years ago helps preserve our current forests and provides you with an extremely high quality, durable, and beautiful lumber product. However, unlike many other lumber companies out there, we recover much of our lumber ourselves, which includes Sinker Cypress, Sinker Pine, Pecky Sinker Cypress, Curly Sinker Pine, and Sinker Cypress Wide Cut Slabs.
Finding recovered timber that was harvested hundreds of years ago helps preserve our current forests and provides you with an extremely high quality, durable, and beautiful lumber product. However, unlike many other lumber companies out there, we recover much of our lumber ourselves, which includes Sinker Cypress, Sinker Pine, Pecky Sinker Cypress, Curly Sinker Pine, and Sinker Cypress Wide Cut Slabs.
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Over hundreds, sometimes thousands of years, the old-growth, virgin forests that once covered large areas of the Southern U.S. created some giant Bald Cypress trees. But, as you probably already know, those old-growth, virgin Cypress forests are gone now. Although Cypress restoration is underway and there are "new-growth" forests, there are few, if any, remaining centuries-old giants like those harvested in the 1800 and 1900s.
At one time Longleaf Pine forests covered nearly 90 million acres of the Southeastern U.S. And those forests had trees that had been growing for hundreds of years. Today those forests and the giants they contained are gone. Logging depleted those forests, but while those logs were being harvested and transported down the waterways of Northwest Florida and Southern Alabama, some sank to the bottom and were lost.
The Tidewater Cypress that grows along Northwest Florida and Southern Alabama swamps and waterways is legendary for its durability and hardiness. In fact, Tidewater Cypress has long been called the "Wood Eternal." Legend has it that Noah's Ark and the original doors of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome were constructed of Cypress.
The strength, durability, and usefulness of Longleaf Pine lumber is legendary. In fact, it was declared the "King's Wood" for shipbuilding when America was first colonized. And John Gould Curtis considered the Longleaf Pine to be the "pride of the south." It's said that Longleaf Heart Pine lumber once framed four of every five houses in the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida.
A cross-section cut of a Pecky Sinker Cypress log reveals something you don't normally see in a slice of wood - lots of irregular shaped holes. And these holes are what give it a character that sets it apart from any other wood - including other cypress logs. Pecky Sinker Cypress is quite rare, creating a high demand for it.
