PBS Documentary "In the Blood"
"In the Blood" is a documentary by Sumner McKane that aired on MPBN in September 2011 about the Maine logging industry at the turn of the century. Todd was interviewed for this film as he is currently salvaging the logs that sank during the log drives.
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September 22, 2011
Fisker Santa Monica showroom
DeadHead Lumber supplied the flooring for the Fisker Santa Monica showroom (reclaimed from Snow's Shipyard in Rockland). Click on the link to read more about this exciting project and scroll down until you see lumber and Todd's boat!
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September 19, 2011
By David William Turner
Photograph by Michael Ferry
Todd Morrissette, frantically operating a wheel in one hand and a tiny metal toggle switch in the other, stands in the six-by-six-foot aluminum cabin of his pontoon boat as it sways in the autumn chop. He squints his eyes under an orange cap brim, peering at the side-scan sonar, searching for valuable submerged lumber in the waters of Moosehead Lake, Maine’s largest lake. This season he will salvage more than two hundred logs from the lakebed. A few gray hairs date Todd’s otherwise youthful appearance. He turned forty last April, three years after he mortgaged his home to become the owner, operator, and sole employee of the DeadHead Lumber Company.
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July 23, 2011
Timber Salvager
Todd Morrissette, owner of Deadhead Lumber Co., shows one of many stacks of very high quality reclaimed old growth red birch that he removed from Moosehead Lake and has sawn into rough boards and stores at his warehouse in Scarborough.
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March 12, 2010
Bottomless bounty: Scarborough’s DeadHead Lumber finds new markets for old, sunken logs
A set of metal tongs looms in the foreground above a gray moon-like landscape displayed on the boat’s tiny black-and-white monitor. In the background emerges a long, thin shadow, giving depth to a cylindrical shape. To the casual observer, it looks like just another old log, one of millions that litter the floors of Maine’s lakes and rivers. But to Todd Morrissette, it’s sunken treasure.
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July 27, 2009
Resurrecting 'Dead' Wood
DeadHead Lumber Co. reclaims hardwood lumber from the depths of Minae's lakes and rivers.
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April, 2009