On Wednesday, April 2, 2014 11:48:15 AM UTC-5, dadiOH wrote:
Nice! Pecan (Carya hickory in general) is a nice wood...hardest commonly available but not all that hard to work, attractive, finishes well. I sometimes wonder why more people don't use it.

It's not a commercial tree for lumber, relatively slow growing, also. Many trees are in a domestic/private setting or grow along fence lines or in small private groves, where folks tend to drive nails into them, for the iron input (nut production). For trees in an industry/production setting, for pecan nut harvesting, the trees aren't available for lumber production.

More often, when one is cut or falls down, it is used for firewood.

Sonny