Is spruce worth anything?

The American Softwood Lumber Association has a "hem-fir" species group, typically Western hemlock and true fir. That group is a step up in strength from "SPF", but below Southern yellow pine (SYP) and Doug Fir (DF) Most of the Home Despot lumber in Suburban Wasington DC appears to be hem-fir.

I got to thinking I don't recall that I've seen the generic labeling recently--maybe that disappeared w/ some of the fair marketing laws, I don't know...

ARGGGGGGGGGGGG... you're making me crazy, George!!!! *lol* (well, crazier, anyway..)

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damn.. this thread is an education!

Being named the "spruce goose", I naturally assumed (make an ass out of u & me) it was made of spruce...

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That's what I usually do... and Will believes me, too.. *eg*

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Apparently Hughes thought about calling it the "Birch Bitch" but changed his mind...

;-)

Spruce is decent stuff. The old growth spruce is real nice. Looks good, machines well. Doug Fir will last forever as exterior trim. Rabbit

It was never _named_ the spruce goose. Hughes always insisted on the "Hercules" or the HK-4 / H-4. The "spruce goose" was just a label cooked up by a newspaper and Hughes famously hated it.

In the recent film I think it's the corrupt Sen. Brewster who coins the term, but in reailty he didn't have the wit for this and just called it a "a flying lumberyard"

i LIKE it!!!

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