Andy Dingley wrote:

There's nothing wrong with pine, except that we rarely use it any more.
You know how hard it is to even find pine of the same grade as was used
a century or so ago. If the OP is talking about 200' then I assume he's
doing skirtings or something and that will be in generic carpentry
whitewood, which is pretty unlikely to even be a pine, let alone a good
one.

My local Champions produce all their planed stuff and mouldings from
unsorted redwood. Whitewood machines badly and blunts cutters so isn't a
viable option for any merchant.