Red Rot in White Pine

[4x4American]

Howdy,

If I'm getting slight red rot in white pine, is it too unstable for use in construction applications?  I would think so, but the customer doesn't seem to care.  One 6x6x8 timber, and a batch of 2x4s have a slight reddish color to it.  The timber is for holding up a car port and the 2x4's are for framing a basement, and I wouldn't doubt it he was using them in the car port too. 

Thanks

[mountainlake]

 When in doubt put them on some blocking and jump on them and compare to good wood.   Steve

[4x4American]

ok ill try it

[Stevem]

Rot or stain?
I know d. Fir gets both red stain and blue stain.  Neither hurts the grade strength but both will turn into to rot soon. Call it red pine and sell it!

[TnAndy]

Tell 'em "It's a hybrid....white pine and Douglas fir"...ahahahaaa

Seriously, as long as the wood is solid, I think you're good.

[4x4American]

There was a guy up here who had some real ugly looking pine logs that had everything wrong with them.  He sawed them and advertised them as Adirodack Wolf Pine and sold every last piece he sawed out for some good $$$

[TnAndy]

THAT is why marketing is at least as valuable a skill as making stuff.

[4x4American]

Got that right!

[Stevem]

I was impressed with the guy who came up with "denim pine"

Standing dead pine gets a fungus carried to it from the bugs that eat the sap wood.  The fungus causes the wood to turn blue.  We always called it blue pine but somebody came up with the denim name.  I liked it! lol

[red oaks lumber]

call it kentucky blue pine,you can charge more 

[Stevem]

It's all in the marketing isn't it!

[backwoods sawyer]

THAT is why marketing is at least as valuable a skill as making stuff.

Filling the yard with quality lumber can be the easy part, keeping it empty can be the challenge.

That blue pine window can be a narrow window before it turns to bug pine.

Alder is a tree that was left in the woods not to long ago, werehouser developed a market and built a mill out side of Coos bay to sort and process logs. (good place to buy Myrtle wood logs by the ton) They call Alder the new Cherry, easy to work, breaks easily so it makes good furniture stock and takes a stain evenly. 

 Spalted Alder seems to be an even shorter window before it goes soft but the results can be well worth the added losses.