A factory in Tualatin, OR makes rod gauges used by service stations to check the fill level of their underground tanks. These rods are made from Ramin trees, also used in making broom handles and some furniture. A mill in Indonesia cuts the blank rods from local Ramin trees and ships them to Oregon in crates containing 1000 pieces each, 12 or 16 feet long. They fabricate the crates from wood on hand at the mill where the Ramin grows. This flooring was fabricated from the planks used to build these crates. There is at least a dozen species, maybe more, though some of those species rotted completely away while this wood was ignored and neglected "out back" in the factory dunnage pile in Tualatin. The remaining boards have passed the rot resistance test with flying colors so much of it was used for outdoor projects.
Stereo-typical fine woodwork is usually made from perfectly matched boards, each with the same color and grain. The result is expensive and sometimes boring. The array of colors and textures represented in this Indonesian dunnage was so far opposite of that perfectly matched look we just had to experiment with some shipping crate flooring.
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