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Norm creates his own outdoor chaise lounge using trestlewood.
Norm takes viewers on an adventure to Utah to witness the
dismantling of a 12-mile long railway trestle that was built at the
turn of the century. Eventually, progress and better engineering in
the 1950s replaced this causeway, and the massive trestlewood
pilings that once provided the means by which Southern Pacific was
able to cross the Great Salt Lake were all but abandoned. Over
years of disuse, the trestlewood, which is composed of Douglas fir
and redwood, eventually became so pickled by lake brine that its
grain began to develop an unusual array of colors. Norm acquires
some of this trestlewood to build his own outdoor chaise lounge
design and in the process, learns quite a bit about current
initiatives to harvest this unusual building material.