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Yellow Pine

Yellow Pine

Yellow Pine (Pinus Echinata)is a softwood lumber species native to North America. Yellow pine lumber is known for its strength, durability, and workability. It is also relatively inexpensive and easy to find.
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GENERAL DESCRIPTION

The sapwood of shortleaf pine is a yellowish white, while the heartwood is a reddish brown. In old, slow-growth trees, sapwood may be only 1 to 2 inches in width. The wood of shortleaf pine is very heavy and strong, very stiff, hard and moderately high in shock resistance. It also has a straight grain, medium texture and is difficult to work with hand tools. All the southern pines have moderately large shrinkage but are stable when properly seasoned.

WORKING PROPERTIES

Working Properties: Shortleaf pine is difficult to work with hand tools. It ranks high in nail holding capacity, but there may be difficulty in gluing.

RATINGS 1 TO 5 (BEST)

Machining: 5

Nailing: 4

Screwing: 4

Gluing: 2

Finishing: 5

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  • ROUGH CUT LUMBER

    Rough cut lumber comes straight from the mill through the dry kiln in the form of planks. This is a version of lumber that has been kiln dried with no further processing.


  • SURFACE 2 SIDES (S2S)

    Surfaced Two Sides (S2S) is rough lumber that has been dressed on the top and bottom of the board in order to meet the requested thickness. Associated Hardwoods has state-of-the-art planers that dress the boards to meet the customer's exact specifications.

  • S2S/RIP-TO-WIDTH

    Rip-To-Width lumber is where both sides of the board are ripped to a customer's specified width after surfacing. Also available S3S, straight line ripped one edge after surfacing.

  • S2S/RIP/CUT-TO-LENGTH

    Rip-To-Width/Cut-To-Length is where the board is manufactured and defected to a customer's unique specifications.

  • S2S/GLUED-TO-SPEC

    Glued-To-Spec is where boards are ripped & cut and glued into a panels.

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NHLA Grading Rules

The NHLA grades are based on the percentage of clear-defect free wood on a board. The measurements of this percentage are referred to as clear-cuttings.

Other than the FAS grades, the grade of the board is determined from the percentage of these clear cuttings and do not consider defects outside of the clear areas.

Learn more about NHLA Grading with this downloadable resource.

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NHLA Grading Rules