Post #65013 by Basement Kahuna on Mon, Dec 15, 2003 3:40 PM

It's white pine, Geck, but you have to seal the hell out of it to slow the drying. We are in a wood wonderland here...went to my local sawmill the other day and they had a load of old growth ponderosa pines from Highlands, North Carolina that averaged 45-48 inches in diameter...log lengths there are brought in at 18 feet. I can't even touch 'em (you know the kind of logistics involved with moving a log that size...we're talking, maybe 8,000 pounds green?)