"illyria" wrote in message
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lid wrote:
The lumber yard - yay!

Anyone need anything?

one 4x12 solid pine beam, 22 feet long.

You usually cannot get something that big of dimension at the lumber yard,
not around here anyway. That is more of a custom cut item and I would have
to visit some of the smaller mill operators to have one cut to that
dimension.

all one piece, not one of those pieces of **** made by gluing a bunch of
smaller strips together. those suck.

You mean glulams.

http://images.google.com/images?hl=e...=Search+images

They are stronger that Douglas fir. The next up after that would be steel.
Glulams are great for spanning a distance. But the mass produced glulams
these days are quite ugly looking and cheap. They were better years ago when
quality was everything.