At the great cave of the Northeast, an elevator takes you 156âbelow ground.... At the great cave of the Northeast, an elevator takes you 156âbelow ground. The doors open into a prehistoric underground cavern 6,000,000 years in the making! Trained tour guides help negotiate the cave and teach about its magnificent natural features. Back on the surface, mine for gemstones at Howe Caverns Mining Co.
Lumber (American English; used only in North America) or timber (used in the rest of the English speaking world) is a type of wood that has been processed into beams and planks, a stage in the process of wood production. Lumber is mainly used for structural purposes but has many other uses as well. There are two main types of lumber.
The word lumber is not used outside North America. Timber is timber, the US refers to timber a s lumber. In the US this is how it is summarised. 1.Timber is dominantly considered as the wood that is still attached to the ground whereas lumber is no longer standing on the ground. 2.Timber is widely accepted as the wood with its bark still on whereas lumber no longer has the wooden bark. 3.Timber is the word used to refer to wooden boards in the U.K. and Australia while lumber is the wooden board for the American and Canadian denomination.