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[hunt4570]

My book says wide boards cup. Also; spruce=studs, pine is too soft so make boards. Hemlock= whatever you need it for, just don't let it dry first or you'll never get a nail in it.
Hardwood goes to HCHaynes wood yard, pulpwood or firewood, depending on quality and species.

Well it depends on what species of pine... SYP is some of the best construction lumber out there..

 

[Molalla1]

Well it depends on what species of pine... SYP is some of the best construction lumber out there..

Mostly fir is what is used out my way . . . and the logs are big compaired . . .

 

[Jstpssng]

Well it depends on what species of pine... SYP is some of the best construction lumber out there..

Yes, I should have specified white pine. That's what we mostly have up here, although we also have some red pine.

 

[Loaderman22]

Mostly fir is what is used out my way . . . and the logs are big compaired . . .

Doug Fir is our preferred around here.

 

[Oldpath05]

I see the future... The tree to the right of the new roof getting cut down now that you can't fit long logs between that and the new post for the roof...

WOW your right just the other day son was telling me he wants those trees gone, tell me am I going to win the lottery this weekend..........

 

[Oldpath05]

I like having the small end towards the saw head as well, I have a jack mounted on that end to raise the log if needed to deal with taper.

Hummmmm, must be some truth to that then, I wont show this message to my son........

 

[Oldpath05]

My book says wide boards cup. Also; spruce=studs, pine is too soft so make boards. Hemlock= whatever you need it for, just don't let it dry first or you'll never get a nail in it.
Hardwood goes to HCHaynes wood yard, pulpwood or firewood, depending on quality and species.

I bet if you keep reading in the next chapter, hope its not the last chapter, that wide boards cover a lot quicker and when nail down cup very little. The first chapter should that a nail gun can compensate between dry pine and dry hemlock

 

[Oldpath05]

Well it depends on what species of pine... SYP is some of the best construction lumber out there..

I bet its stronger then our white pine up here, I can almost break a pine 2x4 with a kick.

 

[Oldpath05]

Son finished the tarpaper and started cedar shakes this afternoon, said he can have it done in two days....

 

[Jstpssng]

Doug Fir is our preferred around here.

That's definitely in a different category than the balsam fir we have here, which grows like weeds, lives about 70 years, and often starts to get hollow when it's still a sapling.

I bet if you keep reading in the next chapter, hope its not the last chapter, that wide boards cover a lot quicker and when nail down cup very little. The first chapter should that a nail gun can compensate between dry pine and dry hemlock

That's all well and good for those of you with sawmills, who can go out and cut a tree the day that it's needed. It doesn't work for those of us who take our logs someplace to be sawn, so that we can have a pile out back to pick through as needed. There's also something to be said for letting it dry first so that you don't have such big cracks in the floors; and even if I did have a mill, I'm still not clever enough to be able to choose just the right tree so that it has the right configuration to give me the exact amount and size of lumber I need.