02-19-2009, 10:25 AM
quote:According to Hiroo Sato's Pahoa history, the Pahoa lumber mill circa 1907 supplied ties for the Santa Fe Railroad as well as plantation railroads. Supposedly crews didn't like the ohia ties because they were too hard to drive spikes into. He also mentions that many of the trees felled were five feet in diameter and over 100 feet tall.
It makes a nice flooring lumber and is great for fine furniture. Wasn't it also used as railroad ties when we had a rail system?