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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
I can tell the difference when I drive a nail into them.

That's if you can drive a nail into them. Well-cured oak has the density of a brick -- and is just as penetrable.

Our ante-bellum home in Alabama was framed and floored in heart pine, cut on the property in 1830. One of the piers, the one that the house was levelled on, was a 4' diameter pine stump. I imagine most of the wood came out of that one tree. Talk about "good wood", real 2 x 4's, even 4 x 8's...and beautiful to behold.

But...if it ever caught fire, heart pine burns like solid turpentine. Run, don't walk, to the nearest exit.

25 posted on 07/10/2016 11:05:29 PM PDT by okie01
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To: okie01

I remember my dad driving a nail into OAK! A short section would always split. a long section would bend the nail, and the next, and the next. He had no drill to make a pilot hole.


40 posted on 07/11/2016 6:58:32 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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