"John McCoy" wrote in message
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There's a big difference between old growth yellow pine and
what you can get now. It's still a very strong wood, but
it doesn't have the rot and insect resistance of the close
grained old stuff.

Hunted an East Texas lease for 12 or 13 years or so back in the 70s and
80s on lumber/paper company acreage, the lease un by a local whose entire
working career was with Kirby Lumber. It was second growth having been
logged in the early 1900s when the trees were moved from their location on
rail trams
"These trees have been developed for fast growth and to hold paint,"
Louie once told me. Growth cycle from planting to harvest being 30 years,
give or take,

Dave in Houston