The foundation, excavated by Chinese laborers, was built on top of a huge raft of layered redwood logs and a layer of 12 x12 ship's planking.

Right at the doorway was his scriptorium: a chunk of redwood log two feet across, adzed flat for a work surface, with clamshells holding various inks and paints.

"I have a quilted redwood log that I bought in Germany," said Mr. Jackson, who in his eagerness to begin carving sounded like Pygmalion at the start of a long weekend.

In addition to redwood logs, carloads of tanoak tree bark were shipped to Caspar and San Francisco from the Noyo River drainage for tanning hides into leather.

By 1927, the supply of virgin pine in Mississippi was depleted, and no more redwood logs were being shipped to the Mississippi sawmills for processing.

Originally constructed in 1954, the original half-round redwood logs used as seating had deteriorated and rotted away in many locations.

Foresters soon adapted them to haul redwood logs out of road-less forests.

He filled up the Pasadena Museum in California with redwood logs.

We had chips on our shoulders as big as redwood logs, didn't we?

Comparative linguistics also may provide evidence as the Chumash word for "sewn-plank canoe," tomolo'o, may have been derived from kumulā'au, the Polynesian word for the redwood logs used in that construction.