Posted by Texasmark1 on February 07, 2012 at 14:58:17 from (67.142.164.25):
In Reply to: Re: Douglas fir beam posted by Stephen Newell on February 07, 2012 at 13:38:51:
Stephen old buddy, you didn't quote the source of your erroneous information, therefore it is totally useless, but having built my house with DF and #2 Southern Yellow Pine, I looked up the beam loading/deflection moments of inertia for both woods in my Engineering Handbook, Mc Graw Hill publishers, being the same length, with the same load concentrated in the same place and they are right together. If I need to publish the numbers I will be happy to do that.
Nice thing about fir is that it took nails much easier than the pine and tended to split less. But the pine came from Texas and the fir from elsewhere so there was some bias as to my selection of beam material.
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