At first, connections among the panels were not apparent, but eventually the eye perceived that each tangle of finely grained
two-by-fours and each partially built brick wall fitted with those around it in what amounted to a perspective exercise.
Some producers like Thunder Bay's Buchanan Forest Products have invested in MSR (Machine Stress Rating) machines to test their
two-by-fours for strength capabilities and sell them to truss and joist manufacturers at a much higher value.
"Rather than ship down
two-by-fours to framers in the United States, send down the entire panel using Ontario
two-by-fours, perhaps exterior panels of Ontario-made oriented strandboard," he says.