Old Growth Heart Pine Lumber

These tongue and groove planks are priced at 4 99 per square foot but you ll need to call for a quote if you want their antique heart pine from.

Old growth heart pine lumber.

Red hills lumber produces a range of custom wood products from the highest quality pine timber. The lengths on these planks range from 6 16 feet and 6 8 or 10 inch widths. Goodwin antique or original growth heart pine is guaranteed to be at least 200 to 500 years old which means it is 100 heart wood and has the highest level of hardness and durability. Heart pine lumber angela raimato 2020 07 23t11 11 29 04 00.

A 75 year old tree will average only 30 heart and even a 130 year old tree yields wood that is not as hard or rich in color as antique heart pine. Goodwin s heart pine is from trees 200 to 500 years old. As a result heart pine is very durable. Heart pine is the heartwood of the longleaf pine tree.

All products are milled from large old growth south georgia pine. The wood gets darker and harder as it gets older. You get this lumber now from houses buildings and warehouses getting torn down. 100 of our antique heart pine lumber sawn from reclaimed old growth pine timbers and decking.

The only way to get heart pine is time. In addition to those styles the company also has new growth heart pine which comes from trees 80 100 years old. All of the old growth was harvested. Heart pine is the old growth yellow pine once common in the american south and atlantic coast regions.

These salvaged heart pine timbers once destined for the land fill have a wonderful hidden beauty that can only be released by sawing these timbers into lumber. A tree is composed of both heartwood and sapwood. To produce the incredible slow growth properties of heart pine flooring high quality beams are reclaimed from industrial buildings as they are demolished. Old growth heart pine.

Because of properties particular to this species of pine heart pine is extremely hard strong and stable making it an excellent wood for flooring. These trees are sustainably grown in our natural forests which gives them a tightness of grain and density not found in pine plantation lumber. Please note than new heart pine sometimes called old growth and not offered by goodwin is usually 70 90 old and available by cutting down existing trees. He could not drive a nail or screw into it without pre drilling.

Old growth heart pine is no longer commercially available as a timber crop meaning real heart pine flooring is always reclaimed. These salvaged heart pine timbers once destined for the land fill have a wonderful hidden beauty that can only be released by sawing these timbers into beams and lumber. 100 of our antique heart pine beams are sawn from reclaimed old growth pine timbers. As far as i know there are no sources of new old growth heart pine.