Posted by david - OR on November 12, 2010 at 09:10:28 from (208.67.204.213):
In Reply to: Barn floor wood posted by ryanwheelock on November 12, 2010 at 05:47:52:
You can"t get the kind of wood they had back in 1895. They had access to old trees with 100 or more growth rings per inch. The dense wood that results from competition with surrounding trees and the resulting slow growth is much stronger and more rot resistant than what you"ll be able to find today, even selecting and milling it yourself.
I own an "old" gambrel barn (built in 1941) here in Oregon. It would never pencil out to modern building codes, and yet it has held up fine for 70 years. The rough-cut rafters are old-growth Douglas fir, free of knots and hard as oak. The wood in this barn makes the modern, genetically engineered, 35 year rotation Doug fir lumber look like balsa wood by comparison.
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