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Default 2 x 4's the old ones

On Monday, March 20, 2017 at 10:56:49 AM UTC-4, dadiOH wrote:
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On Sun, 19 Mar 2017 09:43:45 -0500, dpb wrote:

On 03/19/2017 9:39 AM, trader_4 wrote:
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IDK what they used back then, but 2x4s today are not pine, they are
Douglas Fir.

Only if you're in the western US or Canada (or Japan/China where most
Doug fir is exported to)...the kids in the lumber yards around here
don't even know what "Doug fur" is; some kind of pet, maybe???

Douglas Fir is WAY too valuable to be used for residential framing,
even here in Canada./ What we buy is labled as "SPF" = meaning mixed
softwood - loosely spruce, pine and fir - but the fir is seldom
"douglas Fir" (more likely Balsam in the east and Alpine in the west)
and there is sometimes a bit of tamarac and hemlock mixed in.


Same here in Florida at the borgs. It would be difficult to even find
douglas fir and, if so, it would not be cheap. I have trouble imagining
it - a western wood - winding up in New Jersey when SYP or SFP is much
closer and cheaper/


Better take that up with Home Depot:


2 in. x 4 in. x 96 in. Prime Kiln-Dried Douglas Fir Stud



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