What Is The Advantage Of Using Hemlock Lumber? 

Want trailer decking? Come to California and get some Bull Pine. Oily, stringy, un-splittable, and nearly un-millable, it is a lifetime deck once you tame it.

Ha! Whole bunch's fairly awesome but if we're gonna play favorites I'm have to go and be team Samantha. ;)

I apologize as if what I approve or disapprove of in your videos doesn't carry any weight other then from a faithful viewer. I didn't want it. To sound if my opion meant something. Love the videos and your family I thank you again.

Hi I’m considering using hemlock for a small timber frame project . It it easy to cut, drill and work with in general ?

I like to make garage door frames, entry doors and window sashes out of hemlock because it is highly resistant to rot but it also machines quite well, particularly when I am using shaper cutters across the grain. It drills, planes, and rips quite well. Some pieces shake quite badly, so I make a point of having extra material from which to select for each piece. WEST epoxy works well with clamps on shakes which must be repaired, though. BUT: The hemlock beams in our house were put there in 1837. A spade bit can barely dent those timbers. Recently my electrician worked for close to an hour with a wrist-breaker of a drill to make a 5/8" hole through an 8" timber. A #8 wood screw won't make it into this dry wood far enough to hold. As long as it hasn't sat for a hundred years or so, it should be good to work with and you'll end up with an enduring structure. @@robertstephenson9839

A bit wide in the shoulders for modelling but a beautiful woman indeed. She could do tv commercials.

Once worked building boats. We always used Sitka for spars...

Sitka is great for old-timee airplane parts. Straight grain and light. Guitar faces, too.

@@generessler6282 Yes sir. Used such for sound boards...

We call it piss fir out west and use it as a last resort.

@@generessler6282 I have read and have been told Sitka has the greatest strength to weight ratio of any wood...

Burning saw dust sounds dangerous to me. But I get why, it was probably plentiful and low cost. I grew up learning the danger of combine fires from the harvest generated dust. That's a funny story about the cat, maybe scared it enough to use one of its 9 lives, 😉.

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This video was made in Pennsylvania. There is no douglas fir in Pennsylvania.

@@verteup it doesn't matter what trees are available...old growth of any tree more resistant to bugs and rot ... the thicker the growth ring the lower the quality of wood . Hemlock with tight growth ring. Is more stable but most hemlock these days have thick growth ring ...it's the same with Douglas fir

@@Grizz270 Bugs do not care about growth rings i assure you.

@@verteup your right but bugs do like moisture and the larger the growth ring the more moisture it holds souring the wood....this ain't my first rodeo sonny

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Lighter than spuce or pine ?? Is that a misprint? We cut hemlock and Heavy as hell is how I would describe it . At the small log mill we were missing about a million broad feet of logs after the first year of operation . We found it . Logs would come in big bundles that we opened at the side lift to go from the river into the mill , that missing million feet was the hemlock logs that had sunk to the bottom of the river ( had to dredge the river because the side lift wouldn't drop down deep enough ) Fraser River in B.C.

@@grazynazambeanie5963 May I suggest you compare them when dry.

@@richardanderson2742 maybe you mean true hemlock , that is called Balsam. Because hemlock is heavy wet and heavier than dried Spruce or dried Pine when dried . In fact I'd guess that dried hemlock is about the same weight as wet pine . There are tables out there if you want to compare them , I will say that nothing beats hemlock for taking paint

@@grazynazambeanie5963 USDA lists dried hemlock at 2.35 pounds per board foot. Long leaf pine (most of our southern wood) at 3.4 pounds a board foot. The only structural soft wood that meets hemlock is black spruce, which has the same weight.