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Four acres, thirty-one people, and a grinder you can hear from the road.
Come and see it
We give yard tours to customers, to auditors, and to anyone considering a job here. Put 'yard tour' in the message and pick a weekday morning.
- Written quotes, usually inside one business day
- Loads from 100 pallets to full 53' trailers
- We buy as readily as we sell — tell us which way it flows
One stack
Fifteen high and square. A stack that leans is a stack somebody has to touch twice.
4 acres
Yard footprint
Concrete pad, covered sort deck, open staging.
31
People
Graders, dismantlers, drivers, and four in the office.
2
Grinders
One horizontal, one for the colour line.
9
Trailers on lanes
Plus three tractors and two yard trucks.
The place
A Tuesday, start to finish.
6:40 AM. The first two drivers are in before the office. Trailers loaded the previous afternoon leave against the schedule — Cincinnati and Dayton on a Tuesday. Nobody has said anything to anyone yet.
7:00 AM. Gate opens. The sort deck lights come on and the first inbound load crosses the scale. Yard pickup customers start arriving; the regulars do not stop at the office.
7:30 AM. Grading is running. Two graders on the deck, working a load of mixed GMA at roughly two and a half seconds a unit. It looks casual and it is not — a good grader is making a four-way decision faster than most people can read a sentence, and being right about it more than nineteen times in twenty.
9:00 AM. The repair line has its lumber. Whatever the dismantlers pulled apart yesterday is on the rack next to the bench, which is the whole trick of the operation: repair capacity is limited by dismantling volume, not by the price of new lumber.
11:30 AM. The grinder starts. It is loud, it runs for about four hours, and it is the reason our diversion rate has a nine in front of it. Everything the sort deck rejected goes through it, over a magnet, across a screen deck, and out as three separate products.
1:00 PM. Cut-off for same-day grading. Anything received after this sits overnight, and anything that sits overnight in the wrong weather loses a grade. That timing discipline is worth more to us than any machine on the site.
4:30 PM. Last inbound trailer received. Outbound loads for tomorrow are banded, counted and staged against the door.
5:00 PM. Gate closes. Saturday morning we run a half shift, mostly for yard pickup and for the upcycling bench, which is where the good boards go.
The crew
Training a grader
What we drive
The equipment
What is actually on site.
| Asset | Count | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Covered sort deck | 1 | Four-lane grading under roof — the reason our grades hold in winter |
| Repair benches | 6 | Full-member replacement using recovered lumber |
| Dismantlers | 2 | Separating deck boards from stringers with minimal splitting |
| Build line | 1 | Remanufactured and new builds, standard and custom |
| Horizontal grinder | 1 | Everything the sort deck rejects |
| Colour line | 1 | Dyed landscape mulch, iron oxide and carbon black |
| Magnetic separator | 1 | Ferrous recovery, about 0.4% of intake weight |
| Screening deck | 1 | Splits fibre into mulch, bedding and boiler grades |
| Heat treatment chamber | 1 | ISPM-15 registered, 56 °C core for 30 minutes |
| Truck scale | 1 | Every figure we publish traces back to this |
Visiting
You are welcome to walk it.
We give yard tours to customers deciding whether to trust us, to auditors checking a diversion claim, and to people thinking about working here. Weekday mornings are best — the sort deck is running and the grinder has not started yet, so you can still hear yourself think.
7240 S Access Rd, Columbus, OH 43217. Hi-vis and closed-toe footwear required; we have spares.
Arrange a visitHours
- Monday – Friday
- 7:00 AM – 5:00 PM
- Saturday
- 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM
- Sunday
- Closed
Trailers received until 4:30 PM. Same-day grading cut-off is 1:00 PM.