1970’s redwood homes?

[1voyager1]

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Originally posted by Ccat

... I am told that the redwood of that era held up a lot better. ...

Ccat

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The reputation of being long lasting was built by old growth timber.
Redwood, cedar and any other wood that is resistant to rot, and any similar degradation, is now almost only available as second growth timber, mostly from timber farms where it is harvested by yield economics not wood quality.

While living on Washington's Olympic Peninsula back in the '60s, we cut and loaded a lower butt cut log from a swamp cedar onto a logging truck.
The cedar log had a diameter at the bottom of over 12'.
It was the only log on the truck and it almost broke the trailer.
We would normally use dynamite to split big logs to fit the trailers.

The truck was greatly overloaded, but permitted to allow it to be entered into the Forks, WA 4th of July Parade.
A tree that size had not been seen in many years.

Within the next few years, shake and shingle mills began to close down because old growth timber had almost disappeared.
For all practical purposes old growth timber is now gone.
It has since been logged of off almost everywhere except within the protected park areas.


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