We provide log home, timber and wood products for your home including house logs, log siding, milled timbers, hand peeled posts, rustic wood flooring and paneling, log railings and stairs, wood mantels and countertops and other special order products. In the middle of North America, an ancient, oval-shaped mountain range rises abruptly from the Great Plains. The Lakota people called the range "Paha Sapa", meaning Black Hills, because they're so densely timbered, they appear black from a distance.
Aker Woods Company provides log home, timber and wood products for your home including house logs, log siding, milled timbers, hand peeled posts, rustic wood flooring and paneling, log railings and stairs, wood mantels and countertops and other special order products. The Akers have been logging in the Black Hills since the 1940's. Grandpa M.E. Aker started with a team of mules and some of the early versions of chainsaws. He operated a sawmill and different kinds of logging equipment right up until the day he died in 1980.
We milled a new species (for us) today: some reclaimed Karri, which grows in Western Australia. It’s a heavy, colorful wood.
It’s going to be a railing. This pallet has hand-peeled posts, rails and spindles headed to Indiana. The spindles have tenons.
Deck rehab. We finally squeezed in some time for a project for Mrs. Aker. Check out this railing. Douglas fir heartwood with linseed oil. Copper spindles. The old deck plank is 2” thick eastern redcedar. Zero rot after 20 years. The new deck plank is Douglas fir heartwood. The colors will even...