Reclaimed Flooring made from Waste Vegetable Oil?????

01.16.2011 | COMMENT

This does not even make sense...How can reclaimed flooring be made from Waste Vegetable Oil???  In our continuing efforts to be as eco-friendly as we can be, we are always looking for new ways to green our processes.  Recently, we teamed up with an Amish mill who already work without the modern conveniences the power grid provides.  They operate all of their machinery using a 6 cylinder Perkins diesel engine to power a series of hydraulic motors that operate the planers, ripsaws, and moulders that make each piece of our flooring and furniture!  Thanks to some local restaurants we have worked for over the years, we are recycling their waste vegetable oil from the fryers into a useable fuel for our woodworking operations! 

 

The mill was using around 100 gallons of diesel fuel a week to produce flooring and furniture, today, they are using about 5-10 gallons of diesel fuel, and up to ...

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Kudos to Chef Ouita Michel, our Green Champion for 2010!!!!

01.15.2011 | COMMENT

Wow...Need I say more!  Ouida Michel...What a green entrepreneur! 

When Ouida called on Many Moons to deliver an eco-friendly fitup to her new local first restaurant/country store, we could not resist.  Ouida wanted an interior and exterior decor that was as local as the food she would be serving.  She actually had the great idea to run barn siding horizontally for the exterior which turned our to be a fun challenge for Many Moons...We had the task of creating a siding material that would be easy to install, but still have the original weathered face and edge.  Check out the picture below!

Windy Corner Reclaimed Barn Siding

We also wanted to provide the most eco-friendly flooring for the restaurant.  Our Throroughbred ...

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Many Moons Teams up with Chad Cooper (One Tree Forest Films) to produce new video

01.14.2011 | COMMENT

It is with great pleasure that we bring to you the first, and definitely not the last video from Many Moons.  Over the summer of 2010, we were fortunate enough to pull Chad Cooper with One Tree Forest Films away from his day job to shoot two long days of video of the Many Moons Crew deconstructing an 1890's Hand Hewn Post and Beam barn located outside Cincinnati.  Chad blazed through unyielding brush and 90 degree temperature to get some amazing up close footage of this once graceful beauty coming down.  Kudos to Chad for his amazing talent in capturing the barn world through Tommy's eyes!

Also, a very special thanks to Paz Lenchantin, the unbelievable musician who made Chad's video dance!

Please visit Chad's website http://www.onetreeforestfilms.com, as he has some great stories to tell!

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Cradle to Grave. Grave to Table!

10.26.2010 | COMMENT

As the colors of the leaves change throughout the Blue Ridge mountains this Fall, we're constantly reminded that transformation is among us.  The beauty and lushness of vegetation wilts, becoming nourishing mulch and groundcover to care for next year's rebirth.  Nothing is wasted in nature.  Nothing is taken for granted.

There's a barn in northern Kentucky that is undergoing its Autumn, so to speak.  And we wanted our friends and sustainable design enthusiasts to see how the Many Moons transformation works, from beginning to end (or end to beginning?).

This video is Part I of the transformation process, narrated by our very own Tommy Whittaker.  Of course, Tommy being Tommy, you may also learn more than you bargained for along the way... Tommy loves to learn as much as he can about the history of the buildings we repurpose, the area and available wood and the current property ...

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