Transportation of Teak: From Stump to Your Home

Most outdoor teak furniture found in America, has taken a long, unique trip, sometimes from all the way on the other side of the world. It is difficult for some to consider every little aspect taken to create these gorgeous pieces of outdoor teak furniture.

After nearly 60 years, a teak tree is cut down and generally, another is seedling is planted in its place. While other types of woods can be floated down waterways as a mode of transportation, teak wood has such a dense woodgrain that it is too heavy to transport in this method. Few plantations provide trucks to haul away teak logs, however some plantations still use elephants to drag teak logs through the woods to their next location.

Using elephants to haul teak logs has been a practice used for centuries. Some elephants have been trained to stack these teak logs into stable and even piles. Some elephant herds have been trained so well that they will stop working at the sound of a bell.

Once the teak logs have reached their destination, such as a workshop, the logs are cut, graded, kiln-dried, and carved into the gorgeous outdoor teak furniture that you can find here on Dragonfly Teak.

After outdoor teak furniture has been carved and is ready to go, hundreds of pieces are loaded on to containers which are loaded on to large ships. These ships can take anywhere from 3 to 6 months to reach their destination, especially if it going from Indonesia to America.

Once it reaches its port, it can take up to a month for a container to be unloaded and packed on to a truck for delivery to a warehouse. Once an order is placed at a warehouse, those products are then shipped to either a retail location, or even to your home.

Outdoor teak furniture certainly can take a long time to reach its final destination. But once it reaches your outdoor living area, you’ll be amazed and proud of your outdoor teak furniture.