We may receive a commission when you use our affiliate links. However, this does not impact our recommendations. When you least expect it, you’re sometimes reminded that wood really has two main purposes: as a building material and a source of beauty. You never know where you’ll find an attractive piece of wood. Our neighborhood is constantly growing, with the developer building several dozen new homes every year. My wife and I walk a lot, and our favorite 2-mile route takes us on a short service road past the developer’s base area where they keep equipment and vehicles. They use a lot of flatbed trailers to move machinery and such, so there’s usually a couple parked there. These are real beasts — steel construction everywhere and thick oak planks on the beds. Walking past one of these over the weekend, I spotted some really nice wood.…