pitch pine?

[mowingjamie]

hi, im no expert on trees at all but from reading your posts most of you are! i do a lot of work with wood, in the form of converting chapels. i know oak comes from a oak tree etc, but does pitch pine come from a pitch pine tree, if so are there still 'pitch pine' trees about? has any one ever felled a pitch pine tree? mabe a stupid question but just something ive never really understood.

[clima]

Pitch pine tree is 'Pinus rigida'................... Mainly found in north America.

It has been used for some time in construction, for example for roofing beams, trusses, etc.

I bought several large beams from a demolition site/ old factory some years ago where there had been vandal activity, fires etc and the place was being demolished. The beams were very old but in really good nick.I used them for carving and to make seating/ benches and tables for a pub garden. I read some time ago that not all woods/ beams, etc called pitch pine actually were...in some cases other species were termed as pitch pine to supply a demand which became wider than simply for construction purposes....ie...not all 'pitch pine' is actually pitch pine.....if that makes sense !....(the wood can be made to look good for decorative purposes, a friend has his kitchen surfaces made from pitch pine which was cut from reclaimed beams and shelving).

[Breezeblock]

i got stuff from a fire damaged church most excellent kindling ive ever had

[GlobalNewark]

I purchased some pitched pine parquet flooring 10 yrs ago for my dining room, very hard waring & good as new.

[codlasher]

Threshing machines were made from this timber. That's why they lasted so long. Wharves too and quality 1930's sailing boats. Best way to tell is by weight. It's as heavy as oak!

codlasher

[Ty Korrigan]

Is 'deal' also the same stuff?

I imagine that a conifer that grows in colder or even drier climates has a closer grain and a denser structure.

My wifes home town of Essouira in Morocco is surrounded by Tetraclinus trees, known also as Thuya.

They look like scabby Italien cypressus but because they grow in semi-arid conditions their wood is close grained and hard.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraclinis

 

Regards

[openspaceman]

Is 'deal' also the same stuff?

 

 

I don't think so but originally I think deal referred to any small dimensioned piece of timber. The term normally refers to white softwood, typically spruce. Scots pine from the baltic was called red deal.

 

Pitch pine reminds me of Jeyes fluid in smell.

[Paul Cleaver]

I purchased some pitched pine parquet flooring 10 yrs ago for my dining room, very hard waring & good as new.

 

I sanded ours then applied some type of varnish/ oil - looks great:thumbup1:

[Ty Korrigan]

Pitching a Deal on Pine Parquet...hhh!

As funny as I get these days.

[codlasher]

Is 'deal' also the same stuff?

I imagine that a conifer that grows in colder or even drier climates has a closer grain and a denser structure.

My wifes home town of Essouira in Morocco is surrounded by Tetraclinus trees, known also as Thuya.

They look like scabby Italien cypressus but because they grow in semi-arid conditions their wood is close grained and hard.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraclinis

 

Regards

Some info;

Thuja, More commonly known as Western red cedar. One of the brilliant softwoods grown in the forestry world. Light, completely rot proof and structurally up at the top end of the scale with Douglas fir. Downside is the processing plants give it a knock as their peelers don't like the bark as it is very stringy. Bee hives are a common product made from this.

codlasher