In article e05gd.6857$8R.572@trnddc02, Red Neckerson wrote:
"MilkyWhy" wrote in message
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flakeboard crap of today, so light and easy to move into place. They just
made the stuff BETTER, 50 years ago, than the crap of today.

Gee, grandpa! Can you tell us the one about how you used to walk 5 miles to
school with burlap bags on your feet????

Boy, it was five miles UPHILL to get to school and five miles UPHILL to get
back. In two feet of snow. With wolves chasing us. We were tough in those
days not like the candy-ass kids today.

However - old growth wood is a lot stronger than second or third growth timber.
It's a matter of cost; the old stuff is used up (mostly) and the new stuff is
not as hard or strong. Flakeboard is chips of real wood in a matrix of glue.
Heavy and reasonably strong, it makes use of what used to be thrown away.