Bottomless bounty: Scarborough’s DeadHead Lumber finds new markets for old, sunken logs

A set of metal tongs looms in the foreground above a gray moon-like landscape displayed on the boat’s tiny black-and-white monitor. In the background emerges a long, thin shadow, giving depth to a cylindrical shape. To the casual observer, it looks like just another old log, one of millions that litter the floors of Maine’s lakes and rivers. But to Todd Morrissette, it’s sunken treasure.

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July 27, 2009

 

Timber Salvager

Todd Morrissette, owner of Deadhead Lumber Co., shows one of many stacks of very high quality reclaimed old growth red birch that he removed from Moosehead Lake and has sawn into rough boards and stores at his warehouse in Scarborough.

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February 12, 2009